Pinging users/roles does not work with deferred replies

[chrisdlim]

Which package is this bug report for?

discord.js

Issue description

I have a command that creates a temporary queue for people to join but I want it to expire after X minutes (longer than the 15min webhook token expiration).

To do this, I defer the reply and then use a setTimeout to expire the queue after X minutes. It works fine but because of the deferred reply, the command can't ping users or roles when it's meant to. Is there a workaround for this? I'm not sure why a deferred reply isn't able to ping roles/users.

1. Send bot command
2. Defer reply
3. Return a reply with roleMention or userMention
4. Pings are never sent

Code sample

await interaction.deferReply();
await interaction.editReply({
  content: roleMention('roleId123456'),
  allowedMentions: { parse: ['roles'] },
});

Versions

• discord.js@14.8.0
• typescript@4.9.5

Issue priority

Low (slightly annoying)

Which partials do you have configured?

Not applicable

Which gateway intents are you subscribing to?

Guilds, GuildMembers, GuildMessages, MessageContent

I have tested this issue on a development release

No response

[monbrey]

I think this is a standard Discord thing - message edits have never sent out new notifications. You might need to finish the defer, then use a followUp to ensure a new message is created and sends notifications.

[chrisdlim]

I'll give that a try! Thanks! I didn't know that "finishing a defer" was a thing.

I did a lot of searching for "pinging with deferred replies" and never saw that as a possibility.

[chrisdlim]

@monbrey could you provide an example on how to "finish the defer"?

I tried the following:

await interaction.deferReply();
await interaction.editReply({
  content: 'some fake content',
  allowedMentions: { parse: ['roles'] },
});
await interaction.followUp(roleMention('roleId123456'));

but it still didn't ping the role.

[Qjuh]

You might need to explicitly pass allowedMentions for a followUp to ping (and make sure the bot has permissions to mention that role)

[chrisdlim]

Ah, minor detail missed on my part. That worked. Thanks a lot!