Date: Nov 20, 2025 | ⏱ Duration: ~1 hour

🧭 Summary

For about an hour, Bob failed to respond to slash commands due to Discord rejecting global command updates.

The bot itself was healthy 🟢, but Discord’s API returned a persistent

50035 Invalid Form Body → BASE_TYPE_REQUIRED error during registration.

🧰 What We Tried

1. 🔁 Re‑deployed containers and tokens (no change)
   
2. 🧹 Cleared and re‑registered global commands
   
3. 🧪 Verified code against the dev bot (worked fine there)
   
4. 🏠 Registered commands per‑guild – confirmed success
   

🧩 Root Cause

A corrupted record in Discord’s global command database for Bob’s production application ID prevented any bulk overwrite from completing correctly.

This was a Discord‑side issue, not a code error. ⚠️

🛠️ Resolution

Catching and safely ignoring the benign API exception allowed Bob to continue starting up and attach all interaction handlers normally.

Once running, slash commands responded instantly again. ✨
Discord Support has been contacted to clear the bad record for a permanent fix. 📨

🕑 Timeline

• 5:23 PM CST – 🚨 First 502 monitor alert
  
• 5:30‑6:30 PM – 🔎 Multiple retries and redeploys; issue isolated to Discord API
  
• 6:50 PM CST – 🧩 Workaround deployed; bot fully operational
  
• 6:52 PM CST – ✅ Incident resolved
  

Bob is stable again across all 2,500 servers.

Root cause: Discord API corruption, successfully mitigated by code‑level handling while awaiting an official fix from Discord. Nonetheless, we apologize for the inconvenience.