Discord bot not responding to commands or events anymore

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My bot starts up fine and shows no errors but it completely ignores all commands like $connect, $disconnect, $start, etc. It also doesn’t respond to any events. Everything was working perfectly yesterday but now it’s broken.

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
from discord import FFmpegPCMAudio
from better_profanity import profanity
import random
import os

permissions = discord.Intents.all()
permissions.members = True

client = commands.Bot(command_prefix='$', intents=permissions)

import config as cf
import joke_fetcher as jf

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print("Bot is online and ready!")

@client.event
async def on_member_join(user):
    welcome_channel = client.get_channel(1161221526150987807)
    await welcome_channel.send(f"Welcome {user.display_name}! Glad to have you here!")
    await welcome_channel.send(jf.joke_setup)
    await welcome_channel.send(jf.joke_punchline)

@client.event
async def on_member_remove(user):
    goodbye_channel = client.get_channel(1161221526150987807)
    await goodbye_channel.send(f"See you later {user.display_name}!")

@client.event
async def on_message(msg):
    responses = ['Watch your language!', 'That is not appropriate!', 'Please be respectful!']
    if profanity.contains_profanity(msg.content):
        await msg.delete()
        await msg.channel.send(random.choice(responses))

@client.command()
async def connect(ctx):
    if ctx.author.voice:
        voice_channel = ctx.message.author.voice.channel
        connection = await voice_channel.connect()
        audio_source = FFmpegPCMAudio('welcome.mp3')
        connection.play(audio_source, after=lambda x=None: process_queue(ctx, ctx.message.guild.id))
        print('Connected to voice')
    else:
        await ctx.send('You need to be in a voice channel first!')

@client.command()
async def disconnect(ctx):
    if ctx.voice_client:
        await ctx.guild.voice_client.disconnect()
        await ctx.send('Disconnected from voice channel!')
    else:
        await ctx.send('Not connected to any voice channel!')

@client.command()
async def halt(ctx):
    connection = discord.utils.get(client.voice_clients, guild=ctx.guild)
    if connection.is_playing():
        connection.pause()
    else:
        await ctx.send('Nothing is currently playing!')

@client.command()
async def continue_play(ctx):
    connection = discord.utils.get(client.voice_clients, guild=ctx.guild)
    if connection.is_paused():
        connection.resume()
    else:
        await ctx.send('Audio is not paused!')

@client.command()
async def terminate(ctx):
    connection = discord.utils.get(client.voice_clients, guild=ctx.guild)
    connection.stop()

play_queues = {}

def process_queue(ctx, guild_id):
    if play_queues.get(guild_id):
        if play_queues[guild_id] != []:
            connection = ctx.guild.voice_client
            next_audio = play_queues[guild_id].pop(0)
            connection.play(next_audio)

@client.command()
async def start(ctx, filename):
    connection = ctx.guild.voice_client
    track_file = filename + '.mp3'
    if not os.path.isfile(track_file):
        await ctx.send('Cannot find that audio file.')
        return
    audio_source = FFmpegPCMAudio(track_file)
    connection.play(audio_source, after=lambda x=None: process_queue(ctx, ctx.message.guild.id))
    await ctx.send('Playing: ' + filename)

@client.command()
async def add_to_queue(ctx, filename):
    connection = ctx.guild.voice_client
    track_file = filename + '.mp3'
    if not os.path.isfile(track_file):
        await ctx.send('Cannot find that audio file.')
        return
    audio_source = FFmpegPCMAudio(track_file)
    server_id = ctx.message.guild.id
    if server_id in play_queues:
        play_queues[server_id].append(audio_source)
    else:
        play_queues[server_id] = [audio_source]
    await ctx.send(f'Queued {track_file}')

client.run(cf.token)

I tried regenerating the bot token, toggling all the gateway intents, making a completely new bot, and reinstalling discord.py. Nothing works even though it was fine yesterday with my custom modules!

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yeah, i had that prob too! your on_message is blocking the commands. you gotta add await client.process_commands(msg) at the end. without it, commands just won’t work while the bot seems fine. it’s a common mistake!

3

Had the exact same issue last month - drove me crazy for hours. Your on_message event handler is blocking Discord.py’s command processing. When you override on_message without telling it to keep processing commands, your bot receives messages but never actually processes them as commands. That’s why events work but commands don’t. Just add await client.process_commands(msg) as the last line in your on_message function and you’re good to go. This gotcha gets everyone at least once.

4

Found your problem! You’re missing await client.process_commands(msg) at the end of your on_message handler. When you write a custom on_message event, it overrides the default command processing. Without that line, your bot handles messages but ignores commands completely. Just add it to the end of your on_message function and everything should work. Super common mistake that breaks commands while the bot seems fine otherwise.