About HyacinthBots

Hello there! Welcome to the HyacinthBots website! Here, you can learn a little bit about our organisation, who are we, what do we do and how do we do it.

The HyacinthBots organisation was founded in June 2022, initially named "Untitled-Bot-Organisation" because we were taking our time deciding what to call the organisation. We opted for the name HyacinthBots a few days later. The origins of the name come from how Lily was named, which requires going back in time a little.

Back in the day, LilyBot was created for The Iris Project. She was a single instance, single server bot, that was clunky and written in Java. She was named "Lily" because they're a type of flower, which relates to Iris, and an Iris is a part of a flower (smart eh?). Jumping back to the present day, LilyBot is our primary focus. We absolutely did not want to rebrand LilyBot in any way, so we thought about making our branding flower related. We bikeshed¹ the name quite a bit, cycling through quite a few flowers, even reading into the meaning of said flowers quite extensively. Ultimately, we settled on the Hyacinth flower, quite a beautiful flower, if we say so ourselves. Our logo is inspired from the Hyacinth flower itself.

Upon naming our organisation, we swiftly transferred Lily into the organisation and began to work on building ourselves up as a community, moving into our own Discord server and beginning to formalise proceedings.

As an organisation, Hyacinth has 3 core principles that are present in every project:

1. Free: All our bots are free to use, period.
2. Open Source: Everything we make, will be made open source on our GitHub
3. Forever: Our principles will not change. Forever is a long time and we mean it.

Who is Hyacinth?

There are two founding members and leaders of HyacinthBots. They're responsible for managing the infrastructure, website and guiding the direction for the organisation as a whole.

NoComment

NoComment is the longest standing active developer at HyacinthBots. They began working on Lily during her Java days, and during the Kotlin rewrite they became a prolific developer. The wild amount of code they wrote allowed Lily to hit the ground running when she first became a multi-guild bot. Today, they maintain multiple external libraries under the HyacinthBots organisation and attempt to do wild things with varying degrees of success. They also manage the infrastructure Lily runs on.

tempest

tempest began working on Lily shortly after the Kotlin rewrite released. Her first contributions were major cleanups and re-organisations of the code. An early and well-used feature she introduced was the Role Menu extension, which is used in many guilds to this day. Since her work here began, the codebase has become far cleaner. Her high quality reviews on PRs mean any wild code NoComment writes ends up tidy and (hopefully) bug free. These days, she manages financials and social media pages, while also providing reviews and intermittent but high quality code. Recently she stepped back from the project due to lack of spare time to contribute to Lily. Despite no longer being part of the core team, she remains a key part of the puzzle that made the organisation what it is today

Other members

As HyacinthBots has expanded, we've taken on more people to help us keep the organisation flowing smoothly, to avoid the full burden of development lying on the shoulders of the founding members

NotJansel

NotJansel is the original creator of Allium. NotJansel continues to develop Allium today managing Allium's infrastructure and improving the bot with every opportunity. Alliums holds some of the older Minecraft features that used to be present in LilyBot, NotJansel helped to prepare Allium for those features to be moved over to into its codebase.

¹ For those who are un-aware of what bikeshed means, please see this definition