bot.get_user more stable than guild_get member perhaps

app.py

@@ -142,13 +142,14 @@ async def periodic_api_test(): # needs rewrite, can do same thing and interact w
         print(f"periodic_api_test Error: {e}")    
 
     
-async def add_exp(member_id, message):
+async def add_exp(member_id):
     try:
+        await asyncio.sleep(0.1)
         global global_df
         
         guild = bot.get_guild(879548962464493619)
-        member = guild.get_member(member_id)
-        member2 = guild.get_member(message.content)
+        member = bot.get_user(member_id)
+
         lvl1 = guild.get_role(1171861537699397733)
         lvl2 = guild.get_role(1171861595115245699)
         lvl3 = guild.get_role(1171861626715115591)
@@ -220,17 +221,17 @@ async def add_exp(member_id, message):
                             #await member.send(f"Level up! {current_level-1} -> {current_level}!")  
                             if member_id == 811235357663297546:
 
-                                row = global_df[global_df['discord_user_id'] == str(member2.id)] # does this need to be string?
+                                row = global_df[global_df['discord_user_id'] == str(member_id)] # does this need to be string?
                                 if not row.empty:
                                     target_exp = row['discord_exp'].values[0]
                                     rank = (global_df['discord_exp'] > target_exp).sum() + 1
-                                    print(f"The rank for discord_id {member2.id} based on discord_exp is: {rank}")
+                                    print(f"The rank for discord_id {member_id} based on discord_exp is: {rank}")
                                 else:
-                                    print(f"Discord ID {member2.id} not found in the DataFrame.") 
+                                    print(f"Discord ID {member_id} not found in the DataFrame.") 
                         
                                 # send embed
                                 embed = Embed(color=Color.blue())
-                                embed.set_author(name=f"{member2}", icon_url=member2.avatar.url if member2.avatar else bot.user.avatar.url)
+                                embed.set_author(name=f"{member}", icon_url=member.avatar.url if member.avatar else bot.user.avatar.url)
                                 embed.title = f"Level Up! `{current_level-1}` -> `{current_level}`"
                                 msg = 'Congrats! You just leveled up in the Hugging Face Discord server'
                                 embed.description = f"{msg}."
@@ -248,9 +249,9 @@ async def add_exp(member_id, message):
                                 embed.add_field(name="Verify Here:", value=verification_link, inline=True)
 
                                 
-                                lunar = guild.get_member(811235357663297546)
+                                lunar = bot.get_user(811235357663297546)
                                 await lunar.send(embed=embed)                           
-                                
+                                # just send all levelup messages to me for a few hours
 
                             #Review the leaderboard at <link>
                             # leaderboard link
@@ -298,7 +299,7 @@ async def on_message(message):
             if "!help_xp" not in message.content:
                 print(f"adding exp from message {message.author}")
                 await asyncio.sleep(1)
-                await add_exp(message.author.id, message)
+                await add_exp(message.author.id)
         await bot.process_commands(message)
     except Exception as e:
         print(f"on_message Error: {e}")