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.

  • ManibusanEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    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!

    • @headie_sageOPMAEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      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.