Improve the stats output that TeX bot produces #578
Description
As it says on the tin. There are a few issues that I have noticed with the stats the bot produces that I think improving on could help the bot look somewhat cleaner on:
Removing redundancy
When a user uses the /stats self command there is some level of redundancy. If a user does not have many contributions they will end up with bars of height 0:
Fixing this may also prevent some security issues - we can see an example of this in the above output, where despite not being on committee, the bot has shown me some committee channels that are available.
Make text less cramped
Here is an output from the /stats server command:
As one can see the text is quite cramped. It also displays committee only channels, which server admins may not want users to see depending on the application of the bot. I would also like to fix the margins so that all the text fits in the generated image.
Improve the display of data
This is a broad term, but this time looking at the "most active roles" output in /stats server I would like to do a few things:
- Reorder the roles so it goes from most-contributed to least-contributed
- Make the y axis scale by some reasonable multiple (ideally multiples of 10)
- Subject to discussion, remove roles from the bar chart that contribute less than some proportion (say 5%) of server messages (or replacing it with an "other" option). This last suggestion should have the effect of making the chart far easier to read.