Implement View Persistence Across Bot Restarts

[Zingzy]

Currently, Discord UI components (buttons, selects, etc.) stop working after the bot restarts. This creates a poor user experience as users may encounter "This interaction failed" errors when trying to interact with previously sent messages. We need to implement a persistence mechanism to maintain view functionality across bot restarts.

Technical Implementation

• Use Discord's custom_id parameter as a unique identifier for views
• Implement a structured format for custom_ids (e.g., view_type:data:uuid)
• Create a view factory that can reconstruct views from custom_ids
• Implement serialization/deserialization of view state
• Set up persistence infrastructure:

# Example implementation
class PersistentView(discord.ui.View):
    def __init__(self, timeout=180):
        super().__init__(timeout=timeout)
        self.add_item(discord.ui.Button(custom_id="persistent:button:example", label="Persistent Button"))
    
    @classmethod
    def from_custom_id(cls, custom_id, data):
        """Reconstruct view from stored custom_id and data"""
        view = cls()
        # Set up view state based on saved data
        return view

# In bot initialization
async def setup_hook(self):
    # Register persistent views on startup
    self.add_view(PersistentView())

Benefits

• Improved user experience with consistently working UI components
• No need to re-send messages after bot restarts
• Reduced API usage from not having to re-send messages
• Better reliability for long-running UI workflows