Curious commands

You don’t need any of these commands to sprint. They’re documented here for anyone curious.

ping#

/ping

Check how quickly Sprinto and Discord are responding. /ping shows a card that only you can see, with:

• Sprinto’s response time and Discord’s API response time, such as Sprinto 45 ms · Discord API 62 ms.
• The range of response times across Sprinto’s shards, and which shard your server is on. Discord splits a large bot’s servers into groups called shards, each with its own connection.
• A chart of both response times over the last 2 hours: Discord’s API in blue and Sprinto’s in green, with any Discord incidents marked.
• How many commands and button clicks Sprinto answered and missed, such as Commands and clicks in the last 2 hours: 1,204 answered, 3 missed (0.2%).
• The commands for changing your pings, such as /pingme and /forgetme , for anyone who typed /ping looking for /pingme.

The count of missed commands covers the last 2 hours if anything was missed in them. Otherwise it covers the last day if anything was missed that day, and otherwise the last week.

When Discord’s status page reports an incident, the card also says so, such as Discord is reporting an issue: "Elevated API errors". More at https://status.discord.com

The incident has its own highlighted card, and /ping checks Discord’s status page again if the last check is more than a minute old.

@Sprinto#2517 ping posts the same readings and chart in the channel as plain text. Use it when slash commands aren’t getting through. Type ping exactly: pings and pingme are different commands.

Status line#

Under Sprinto’s name in the member list, the status line usually reads Listening to /sprint.

When slash commands aren’t reaching Sprinto but mentions are, the status line reads Listening to @Sprinto sprint. Use @Sprinto commands until it changes back.

While Discord’s status page reports an incident, the status line reads Listening to status.discord.com.

The dot next to Sprinto’s name stays green in every case. See also Troubleshooting.

parse#

SprintoApp

⏱️ I read that as 90 minutes.

Check how Sprinto reads a length of time. parse reads every way a sprint length can be written, and doesn’t start a sprint. A number on its own is minutes, so parse 45 is 45 minutes, and 1:30 is 1 minute 30 seconds. From an hour up, the reply also gives hours and minutes: parse 30000s is 500 minutes (8 hours 20 minutes).

@Sprinto parse on its own replies with examples. parse has no slash command. Type parse exactly: Sprinto doesn’t correct typos in it.

Sprinto reads lengths of time with a Rust version of TimeSpanParser, the open source library written for the old version of Sprinto.

dare#

Get one writing dare. Sprinto replies with the dare in italics. The dares come from the old word_sprints page on nanowrimo.org, from around 2016. That page has since been deleted.

dare, dare me, dareme, give me a dare, gimme a dare, give us a dare and i want a dare all work. Sprinto doesn’t correct typos in these, so type one exactly. In a server, start with @Sprinto, as in @Sprinto dare me. In a DM with Sprinto, dare me on its own works. dare has no slash command.

roll#

SprintoApp

🎲 You rolled 29. (2d6: 4, 4 · 1d20: 11 · +10)

Roll dice. Sprinto replies with the total and what each die showed. roll on its own rolls one six-sided die, and the brackets just name it: (1d6).

Other names: rolls, dice, die, rng, rnd, rand, random.

roll has no slash command: use @Sprinto roll, or send roll to Sprinto in a DM. Type roll exactly: Sprinto doesn’t correct typos in it.

Sprint lengths can be dice too: /sprint options: 3d6 rolls the sprint length. See Random sprint lengths.

invite#

Get a link to the Invite Sprinto page on this site, which has the invite link and setup steps. Also invites and setup.

SprintoApp

Sprinto invite link and quick setup instructions can be found here: https://sprintobot.com/docs/invite-sprinto/

support / vote / donate / merch#

Each of these replies with one link:

None of these have a slash command. Type donate exactly: Sprinto doesn’t correct typos in it.

sprintmc#

Get instructions for setting up the @Sprint MC role:

SprintoApp

To give someone sprint-MC powers (like lock), create a role named exactly Sprint MC and assign it to them. Sprint Admin works the same way for settings powers.

For more, see Admin commands.

create / refresh active role#

/create-active-role

/refresh-active-role

/create-active-role sets up the @Active Sprinters role on your server. /refresh-active-role moves people in and out of the role, in case it’s out of date. Both need the Manage Roles permission, or a @Sprint Admin role. For more about the role, see ActiveSprinter.

prefix#

See also#

• Overview of Help
• Starting a sprint (basics)
• Less used — commands you don’t need but they’re related to sprints
• Voice: voice channel sounds, paused at the moment
• FAQ