/dd_update — Deep Desert updater controls

Manage the weekly “Deep Desert — Weekly Uniques” message updater for this guild.

Usage

/dd_update <action> [reason]

• action — stop | resume | start
• reason (optional) — free text appended to the confirmation response.

Permissions

• stop / resume: Server Owner or members with Manage Server.
• start: Server Owner only. Use with care—this forces an immediate check cycle.

Behavior

• Weekly reset: Tuesdays 03:00 UTC. At reset, the bot updates the channel message to indicate it’s waiting for the new week.
• Polling cadence: adaptive back-off until fresh data is found:
  • Every 5 min for the first hour
  • Then every 15 min until 3 hours
  • Then every 30 min until 6 hours
  • Then every 1 hour until 24 hours
  • Then every 3 hours
• Success: when new valid data appears, the bot updates the message once and idles until the next weekly reset.
• Errors / no update yet: the message shows a generic notice that it’s still waiting or that an issue occurred (no external source is mentioned).

Actions

• stop — Pauses all checks. The message remains as-is until you resume.
• resume — Returns to the normal weekly cycle (detect reset, then poll until new data).
• start — Pretends the weekly reset just happened and begins polling now. Owner-only.

Channel & config

• Target channel: taken from SHAI_DD_CHANNEL_ID (env). If unset, defaults to 1404764793377652807.
• Scope: guild-specific. The message lives in this server’s configured channel.

Notes

• This command only controls the updater; it does not manually edit the posted message.
• On each successful weekly update, the bot compares content against the previous week to avoid duplicate posts.