Deprecation of buttons

[PurpShell]

Deprecation of Buttons, Lists, Templates

We will now remove all references in code and built-in capability to send buttons or Lists. We announced the deprecation a year and a few months ago.

This PR allows you to add custom Nodes to the outgoing as well. Do with that information what you will!

[whiskeysockets-bot]

Thanks for your contribution.

The next step is to wait for review and approval to merge it to main repository

The community can help reacting with a thumb up (:thumbsup:) for approval and rocket (:rocket:) for who has tested it.

To test this PR you can run the following command below:

# NPM
npm install @whiskeysockets/baileys@WhiskeySockets/Baileys#fix/buttons-deprecation
# YARN v2
yarn add @whiskeysockets/baileys@WhiskeySockets/Baileys#fix/buttons-deprecation

[adithyan-hermit]

Why don't just use interactionMessage for buttons

[PurpShell]

Why don't just use interactionMessage for buttons

This PR is to deprecate all buttons, no more buttons, no more interaction message, no more anything!

[adithyan-hermit]

Ok.. buttons are still working...

[Xyro-Dev]

yatta🥰

[KilluaBot]

Thank you very much, good people, I wish you good health always. 🥰🥰🥰🔥🔥🔥

[Galang-Purnama]

Why don't just use interactionMessage for buttons

This PR is to deprecate all buttons, no more buttons, no more interaction message, no more anything!

Why ?

[lz20r]

Ok.. buttons are still working...

Better than nothing 😔

[lz20r]

Why don't just use interactionMessage for buttons

This PR is to deprecate all buttons, no more buttons, no more interaction message, no more anything!

This makes it more interactive... and not static...
In my opinion, buttons improve the visualization of information and also prevent the user from getting tired of seeing the same format. Another advantage is that it allows you to have a certain way of shaping it to your liking. Also, creating your own design would make the bot not look like a copy of others.

[Galang-Purnama]

Why don't just use interactionMessage for buttons

This PR is to deprecate all buttons, no more buttons, no more interaction message, no more anything!

This makes it more interactive... and not static... In my opinion, buttons improve the visualization of information and also prevent the user from getting tired of seeing the same format. Another advantage is that it allows you to have a certain way of shaping it to your liking. Also, creating your own design would make the bot not look like a copy of others.

I agree with what you said, but the Baileys developers don't want us to have a simple bot, they only make it more difficult if the button is no longer there.

[APdev93]

Is the number of sending button messages reduced to a maximum of 3?, to reduce the risk of bugs and etc?

[RynXD-Host]

I've had enough with buttons😌

[PurpShell]

We already took our decision and informed and warned everyone a year ago. No more buttons.

Meta directly patched my own work (50 hours spent uncovering ) 1 day after I made a push to pedroslopez/whatsapp-web.js

We don't want provocation or reasons for baileys to be targeted. It is either buttons or baileys, pick one.

GO USE THE OFFICIAL META API IF YOU CARE ABOUT UI/UX I PERSONALLY COULD CARE LESS!

[PurpShell]

I already mentioned the reason, Meta doesn't like it.

We have received multiple legal threats.