Not starting bot

[mikeharrisoffical]

Hi, Ive run into an issue while trying to use your discord bot. It seems that I cannot start my bot although it does says "Connected to discord!", its not making my discord bot go online could you help?

[NimbleToes]

@mikeharrisoffical I had the same issue, but I resolved it by going into the bot's settings in the Discord Developer Portal and making sure everything was toggled on under the Privileged Gateway Intents section. Restarted the bot and it worked fine. Check to see if this is your issue.

[adamstirtan]

Hi there! Yeah I think @NimbleToes beat me to this. I'm not an expert on all those permissions, but ensuring they're toggled on will do the trick. Let me know if you're still stuck @mikeharrisoffical and I'll dig a little deeper with you.

[NimbleToes]

You might only need the Message Content Intent toggled on using this bot since it's specifically setting it in the DiscordSocketConfig here

DiscordBotTutorial/Part 3/DiscordBot/DiscordBot/Bot.cs

Lines 24 to 27 in 11811a3

	DiscordSocketConfig config = new()
	{
	GatewayIntents = GatewayIntents.AllUnprivileged | GatewayIntents.MessageContent
	};

Since it is a privileged intent to read the message content it needs to explicitly be enabled.
The discord.net docs also list this on their text commands page here https://discordnet.dev/guides/text_commands/intro.html and they recommend using slash commands instead of text commands