i was thinking.
What if we created an text-file (or f.i. XML) with the menu-layout and the possible commands in it for a custom bot-menu. Then developers of the clients would just have to read that file and create a menu out of it. The commands in the menu are "told" to the bot when clicked.
This would be fairley easy to make for client developers too i think.

Example:
bot_name:The original tourneybot
bot_login:tourneybot
bot_menu_option1_name:Start tourney
bot_menu_option1_name:tell TourneyBot start ?##

?## could mean: ask for input in a textbox

get it?

The results would be enormous since it would make the usage (and information availability, botowners can also provide information) of bots much easier. I personally think working with tourneybot is too much hassle.

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That really surprises me

That is a very good idea, even that the bots could dynamically update the menu for special events.

Heck a bot could just add a MENU command and it could send the current menus to the client

The biggest problem is that the client development is almost non-existent.