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Build a Discord bot with discord.js v14: app setup, your first slash command and keeping it online

Step-by-step guide to create a slash-command Discord bot using discord.js v14.

Steady
Signal score
18
as of 7h ago
Trajectory
→ Steady
7-day est. ~18

Why this scored 18

every term, weighted
Velocity+0.0 / 40

Engagement gained per hour since the last capture, against the fastest item on its own source

Acceleration+11.3 / 25

Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate

Cross-source spread+0.0 / 25

How many independent communities are talking about the same entity

Recency+7.9 / 10

Decays to zero over 14 days

Saturation penalty−0.8 / 30

Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked

Composite18.4

Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement, and velocity falls back to engagement over its whole lifetime until a second reading exists. Full methodology

Outlook

low confidence · estimate, not a guarantee

7-day

~18

range 0–29

14-day

~16

range 0–31

30-day

~14

range 0–33

Signal history

7-day window (free)
1822

projected trajectory (estimate, not a guarantee)

Entities

discordjsdiscord
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