Although it isn’t my favourite translation service, Google can translate far more languages than DeepL. As of now, anyone using the main bot instance (Diru#3593) can use `gtr` instead of `dpl` to translate with Google instead!

Translate with Google!

I want to preface this with the fact that Diru isn't going anywhere. Even if I didn't want to continue support, since the bot is open-source, it would still be able to live on.

By the future, I'm wanting to talk about new features and how to implement them. Diru started as a bot that was solely intended for a server that I am an admin in and I wrote it in Go to make the bot small in size. However this comes with a trade off, the library for Discord (Disgord) is still in relative infancy and while building the bot, I've been wrestling with it to implement features.

This has made me come to the decision of converting the bot to run on Node using discord.ts. This will mean that I can improve maintainability and allow for the use of the new application features.

In the future, I'll be discontinuing the use of text commands in favour of the context commands and slash commands that I have planned but this won't be for another 6 months at least. The conversion hasn't quite started yet but I'm hoping to begin in the next week.

Thanks,
Luĉjo!

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