Matthew Johnston matthewjohnston4

This two-piece code will allow you to setup a Nightbot shoutout command which can be customised to allow per-user shoutout messages, with a fallback default message.

Because Nightbot commands have a character limit, you won't get far with including the custom messages directly in your command string.

The solution is to use Nightbots urlfetch variable to fetch a JSON object filled with custom messages from somewhere on the web — here I'm placing it in a Github Gist (which works fine, but a bit slowly). You could put it somewhere on a plain old HTTP page served anywhere on the internet.

1. Clone this JSON: https://gist.github.com/matthewjohnston4/ef62107655e471384fe027e0738a5c05 and store it where you want.
2. Customise the JSON object to add or remove any "username": "shoutout message" combinations you want (don't forget those trailing commas).

Tweet by Professor Philip Nolan on September 18th, 2020:

It is reasonable to ask: why close restaurants and pubs if there are so few outbreaks associated with those environments? However, this is misreading and misinterpreting the data on outbreaks and clusters.

If I went out 5 days ago and caught the virus in a restaurant, it will have multiplied silently inside me for 3 days; then I will have started shedding virus, and potentially infecting others, for 2 days; today I become symptomatic, self-isolate, and get a test.

Public health only ask me about my contacts for the 48 hours before I developed symptoms. They don’t need to know where I got the virus; that happened 5 days ago. They want to know where the virus is going, who I might have infected, and prevent onward transmission.