Icarus

Icarus is LDSG's prime Discord bot. Development started in August 2016, lead by Gaiwecoor. Before Icarus, Mee6 was the primary bot of LDSG, but Icarus replaced all Mee6's features around June 14th, 2017. Icarus is the mascot of LDSG, which of course takes it's roots from Greek mythology (Wikipedia - Icarus). Icarus is based on Node.js, using a custom framework called Augur, developed by Gaiwecoor.

History
[July 2016] Initially, the bot prefix was & ($ for moderator commands). It started with very basic commands, such as getting a member's join date, and their nickname. It also had custom responses added for input phrases. A lot of the basic functionality and commands were transitioned from Mee6 over time. A pokemon command was added early on as well.

[August 2016] Soon, integrations were made with Twitch, Overwatch, and Discord's settings. The bot gained significant usefulness, with features that Mee6 didn't have.

The !hug command was notably suggested by Paulchritude#4502, and quickly added to Icarus.

Moderator commands, such as !prune (later renamed to !purge) and !mute, were added.

On the 6th, the bot prefix was changed to `!` instead of `&`.

[October 2016] The idea for an LDSG currency was initially raised by Ghost on October 13th, 2016.

''"Also, been thinking about an in-community currency, contained within Icarus. People have thrown around "Ghost Bucks" before but we could make it LDSG Bucks or Icarus Bucks. Basically I give them out when someone does something good or is chosen as featured player or I've messed up (like one time I had to cancel a podcast after everyone was ready and so I said '30 ghost bucks for all of you') and then we can make a store of steam keys and gift cards that people can use ghost bucks for like 4 times a year or something." - Ghost''

It was later finalized that it would be called "Ghost Bucks".

(November 2016 - July 2020 needs additions)

[August 2020] Icarus begins updating to Augur2, which was updated to d.js v12. Mixer integration removed due to Mixer's shutdown/merge with Facebook.