Responding ephemerally

What is an ephemeral response? Basically, only the user who executed the command can see the result of it, this is pretty simple to implement.

Note

You don't have to run arg.DeferAsync() to capture the interaction, you can use arg.RespondAsync() with a message to capture it, this also follows the ephemeral rule.

When responding with either FollowupAsync or RespondAsync you can pass in an ephemeral property. When setting it to true it will respond ephemerally, false and it will respond non-ephemerally.

Let's use this in our list role command.

await command.RespondAsync(embed: embedBuilder.Build(), ephemeral: true);

Running the command now only shows the message to us!