I’ve been working on a simple bot for posting game threads in my spare time for fun. Wondering if it’s worth hosting (and if the mods are okay with it).
I know the community is quite slow, so I’m not sure if posting a bunch of game threads would help or not.
To prevent flooding the community with empty match threads, the bot for !football@sopuli.xyz only creates threads for matches if someone @‘s the bot to request it directly — maybe that would work?
I’m just curious: is there a reason we don’t want the empty threads? And I get it, but I feel like the threads themselves would be to drive the engagement. Like, I’m probably not gonna @ the bot, I’m a simple man, but if I pop in here and there’s a thread for the Rongos, I’ll certainly pop in and share my thoughts.
I don’t really get it either, but lots of people say it discourages them when they go to a community and see a lot of threads with no comments, especially if the threads are from a bot poster.
Interesting, Ill see if I can do this
I would be
Ive also just realize there used to be one here and it’s open source. Might be better to just host that one than my own
We used to use the game day bot on the Caps sub, but we stopped using it because it started choking mid-game, and we never bothered to debug it. If you browse the Caps sub by age and scroll past the manual game day threads, you’ll see what I mean.
I think I’ve fixed the crashing. It was caused by a change in the NHL API. There’s some other changes that are causing some other stats to not be filled out, but at least it’s working for the moment.
I’ve been testing it over on enterprise.lemmy.ml
And I actually just fixed the missing stats as well
I think it’s in a usable state now. Are you alright with me turning it on for the sub tomorrow? You seem like the only active mod :p
Pardon my tardy response, but yes, let’s give it a whirl! Thank you!
I think it’s a good idea. I’d love to see more activity here.
Can we abuse the bot?
It would feel wrong not to.
