Allow setting webhook name color and editing webhook messages

[advaith1]

It would be useful if we could set the name color of a webhook message instead of it always being white (like how it would look if it had a role), just like how we can set the username and avatar URL in the post request.

Also, it would be useful if we could edit webhook messages after sending them.

Mason said it would be fine to put both of these in one issue.

[andyearnshaw]

One of the things my bot uses webhooks for is mirroring a very basic in-game guild chat in a channel on Discord. It lets me reuse the avatars, specify the name, etc. The only downside is that every person is tagged as BOT, so it would be nice to change the text and the background colour of that tag too.

[advaith1]

unfortunately, Mason said that's probably not happening

[andyearnshaw]

I suppose that's fair. To clarify, though, my thinking was more along the lines of not removing it, but changing it from "BOT" to something else. For example, I'm echoing chat from a game on Kongregate, so I'd change the text to the letter K and the background colour to Kongregate's red:

This would be way less confusing than the "BOT" text for my users. Also, I think that you could add more clarity using hover text (which I think should be added even without this feature if you feel people are already too confused about webhooks).

[IllagerCaptain]

I had an idea, maybe they could have some pre-set choices that you could choose from, as opposed to a complete custom, to prevent impersonation. Maybe a "style" field similar to buttons? These are some I thought of for common webhook usecases, with a possible style number:

• Bot - 0 or unset - Default
• External - 1 - Sent by an external source.
• Guest - 2 - Bots that allow people to send messages without registering with Discord.
• In-Game - 3 - Game/Discord chat syncing.
• Quote - 4 - Message link previewers. Possibly requires a message reference field?
• Reference - 5 - Alternative to style of 4.

[advaith1]

editing (and deleting) messages is now possible

[0-McLovin-0]

Is there any update to this feature. Like are the devs gonna do it in the future or just not at all. Just would be helpful to know

[advaith1]

editing webhook messages has been added [docs], they haven't said whether setting name color will be added

[0-McLovin-0]

editing webhook messages has been added [docs], they haven't said whether setting name color will be added

Thanks for the fast response. Im mainly focused on the name color part. Hopefully they'll add it in the future as pretty much everything else is customizable

[StarWitch]

+1 to being able to set colour on webhook messages, at the very least. I can understand keeping the [BOT] tag and other ways to prevent user impersonation, but in a server with something like PluralKit, it can be quite visually confusing to differentiate different messages.

[XaskeL]

+1 to being able to set colour on webhook messages, at the very least.

[izutsumi]

+1 to setting color. We are currently using webhooks to simulate a global chat, and it would help distinguish between different users.

[dawidePl]

I use webhooks for my suggestion system. It would be nice to change webhook colour to show colour of sender too. I also agree that it would open road to impersonate someone even more. It could be a problem. I still hope that it'll be added ^^

[StarWitch]

@advaith1 Has there been any word on this?

[StarWitch]

@advaith1 Poking again as it's been quite some time, and it'd be a huge boon to things like PluralKit.

[NovaFox161]

Something tells me advaith isn't staff lol

[advaith1]

they haven't added color support or announced any plans to

[FavioMc19]

Still waiting for this to happen... it's been about 3 years now haha

[piqjen-1xofFi-sikxyh]

Waiting for?

[loresorti]

+1

[ann00b]

discord do this challenge

[muin-immutable]

discord please add this so we can change colours of the bot names 🙏

[ConorDamian]

up. Changing webhook nickname color!

[cRyPt0h4sH3R]

bump for bot name color change.

[zeeblo]

would also love to see this added

[risograph]

bump! would be great for my minecraft server bridge!

[ZammerDev]

Please?

[Birdmandrew]

The ability to change webhook name color would help align automated messages with the roles we use for other apps in our channels, we'd appreciate this functionality a lot.