From c8561de9c4bc605c1a9981e87825674a52bbc1b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Skip R <tinyslices@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 14:33:56 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] connector: panic with a more useful message when creating nil
 sender

---
 pkg/connector/client.go | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkg/connector/client.go b/pkg/connector/client.go
index 6e92af8..ece6371 100644
--- a/pkg/connector/client.go
+++ b/pkg/connector/client.go
@@ -394,6 +394,10 @@ func (d *DiscordClient) selfEventSender() bridgev2.EventSender {
 }
 
 func (d *DiscordClient) makeEventSender(user *discordgo.User) bridgev2.EventSender {
+	if user == nil {
+		panic("DiscordClient makeEventSender was passed a nil user")
+	}
+
 	return d.makeEventSenderWithID(user.ID)
 }