Some of you may have noticed there’s a game day bot that’s been posting to some of your communities. I forked the popular redball bot that’s widely used on reddit and have been working to get it compatible with lemmy.
That project is not complete but I plan on putting in a lot of work this weekend in order to squash the bugs and add in the remaining missing features.
Once complete, I’ll roll out a standard version of it to all of the baseball communities on fanaticus. That being said, I don’t want to be the guy running every baseball community on fanaticus. Anyone who wants to run a community can ask to be a mod and I’ll work with them to set up and configure their own baseball bot.
I don’t have any experience with game thread bots, but would it be difficult/possible to get bots set up for football communities as well? I don’t know what goes into setting up or running those bots but it would definitely help increase participation come fall.
That being said, I don’t want to be the guy running every baseball community on fanaticus.
I feel this! I have close to probably 170 communities now between NFL and college and am definitely looking for some mods myself. Hopefully we can get more users to congregate here!
would it be difficult/possible to get bots set up for football communities as well?
Not at all! @cerevant@lemmy.world says he’s looking to undertake that effort. I am focusing on the baseball version right now only because it’s baseball season.
Confirmed - I’ll be taking a look at this.
Sweet, good to hear!
