We don't want to use the channel topic updater and the bots don't have permission to do so, but as far as I can find there is no way to disable the feature, so these warnings constantly print to the console

Based on this I tried setting ChannelTopicUpdaterRateInMinutes to nothing, commenting it out, or setting it to 0 but it still logs every 5 minutes. I can only set it to an extremely high value to prevent it filling the console, but there should just be an option to disable the feature.

I would like to see this feature.

Hi, i have the same issue, but where do i put the message blank option, i cant find it. Thanks for helping

Hi, i have the same issue, but where do i put the message blank option, i cant find it. Thanks for helping

These options are what need to be set to "", and to stop the topics being updated at shutdown, you can set ChannelTopicUpdaterChannelTopicsAtShutdownEnabled to false.

Set the format to be blank string in messages.yml

Ok well, thanks for that, but I still think there should be an option to disable the feature in config.yml, as this is unintuitive because one would expect messages.yml to only hold strings and not enable/disable features, and there is no documentation covering this. And it's inconsistent as there is an option to disable the channel topic updater and shutdown in config.yml without blanking the string in messages.yml. At least setting the interval to 0 or blank should disable the feature.

While I see your concern, that’s how we’ve always done it. Whenever someone wants to disable a given message, they’re told to make the message blank. In that way, it’s consistent. Sure a config option wouldn’t be a terrible idea, but it would add another step for us to provide support when someone wants to disable a message (is the user asking about a message that has a dedicated option to toggle it’s behavior?)