Right now, the help section is too big to be sent in one message by the bot. The bot is sending an image with the commands.

It would be great if we could send the commands in text to the user. We could send a bunch of messages at the same time with a different command on each line.

While we wait for The Blue Alliance to release API V3 ( the-blue-alliance/the-blue-alliance#1507 ), we can use this json array: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FRC-Bot/data/master/teams/TeamsSocialMedia.json . We should limit ourselves to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and maybe Snapchat in the future if we decide to include it on TBA the-blue-alliance/the-blue-alliance#1704 .

We should use this template: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/send-api-reference/button-template

We have to implement event requests. A lot of users are wanting event dates and event streams and a lot of other stuff. Right now, the bot can't handle that.

I am not getting a photo response for some random teams who do have photos available on TBA. Reproduce by asking:
picture 2016 973

UPDATE: I figured out why but still no solution
If you got to 973's TBA page, you will notice that they have two images. The first image is blank while the second image is actual content. The bot only pulls the first photo. Therefore, it cannot return the non-blank one. Is it possible to tell the bot to send all pictures?

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/plugin-reference/send-to-messenger

Implement the Send to Messenger plugin so that new users could subscribe to their team by clicking on a button on a website.

For example, some FRC teams could put this button on their website and when the user click on it, they would get subscribed to receive Messenger notifications for this team.

Messenger notifications is by far the most popular feature of FRC Bot.

There should be a way to report which alliance the subscribed team is on. I hate having to go to TBA anyway to figure out if I won or lost. Defeats the purpose of it

Some people are trying to subscribe to teams using their name instead of their number. Right now, the bot tell them that they have successfully subscribed to the team but it doesn't actually register their choice in the database.

Some people also tries to subscribe to multiple teams using commas like: Subscribe 123,456,1234,1243 wich doesn't work. The bot only look at the number and they will get subscribed to team 12345612341243 wich doesn't exist.

We can't really do a script to get team number by name because some teams that have the same name and it would be a nightmare.

What we can do is send an error message when it can't find a valid team number in the request.

It would be great to utilize https://www.thebluealliance.com/api/v2/team//history/awards to send a list of award a team has won.

It is doesn't make sense that users have to search for an event key on TBA in order to ask a question to the bot. We have to create a tool that finds event codes from name.

So this is pretty bad news. The main feature of FRC Bot was going to be match notifications. Yesterday, I realised that I had forgotten to sumbit the notification feature for approval. Today, I received an email saying that my submission had been rejected.

I will try my best to get it approve before the end of the build season but I cant guarantee anything.

User input:
Picture <> <>
Example: Picture 2016 1836

Output:
Photos of robot (or at the very least URLs)

Utilize:
http://www.thebluealliance.com/api/v2/team/_TEAM_/_YEAR_/media?X-TBA-App-Id=frcbot:messengerchatbot:1
Example: http://www.thebluealliance.com/api/v2/team/frc1836/2016/media?X-TBA-App-Id=frcbot:messengerchatbot:1

We could use the bot to send notifications like match results to users. They could subscribe to receive notifications for certain teams and events. We can use a The Blue Alliance Webhook for that.