[META] Where the daily thread at?
[META] Where the daily thread at?
Our Southern cousins in Sydney and Melbourne have daily threads which encourages a bit of chatter.... Where's ours?
I'd love to be the change I wish to see in the world, but I have no idea how to automate this any better than an alarm on my phone saying "post a daily thread idiot" and I'm sure there's a better way.
Have a chat with @[email protected] ... They're trying to figure out the bot thing for Melbourne I think
This tag should work: @[email protected]
I've written some bots for Reddit in the past, so I'd be happy to help with such a bot for the aussie.zone instance, or at least for !brisbane. Doesn't look like there are any good wrappers for the Lemmy API yet (unless you count one for Rust which requires you to sign up for an email mailing list to contribute or submit feedback, which...gross) so the work involved at the moment might be a bit more than it was using PRAW.
Yes, there are a few teething errors but hopefully it will be automated soon. Pinning/unpinning the threads and any other fancy additions might be a fair bit longer, and it is likely to be a bit prone to glitches and failure especially when updates occur.
Once it is running properly I can easily add in automatic posts for other communities, and it can do different types of posts and at different intervals. So I can do that (at request of moderator) or if you know how to use JavaScript to run a program there is code on Git Hub for a Lemmy Bot and Lemmy Frank Bot (which is to make regular posts, using the basic Lemmy Bot code).
I can investigate this. I've been a dev for many, many years. :)
Edit RustyRaven
Brisbane needs more people to post threads online to make it seem better to the roobs overseas. Where the PR and ORM firms at?