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Hello all!

Just a couple of updates from the bot front:

First, I finally got the game update comments working, and put in a more robust sticky post manager, so we won’t have 3 day old sticky posts. As always, let me know if you see something go wonky.

I’ve reconfigured the bot to go ahead and post the Game Thread when the Game Day Thread normally went up. It contains the same content, and we don’t have enough conversation to warrant two threads.

I’m thinking about doing something similar for the Postgame Thread - basically just keeping the Game thread and changing its title to reflect the outcome. I hesitate to do this because the Postgame thread gets the most upvotes, and if I just modify the title of the game thread, I don’t think it will pop up in your feed when the game is over. Let me know if you have any thoughts on this.

My next big project is to get the bot working for Eagles games. I’m a bit busy IRL right now, so I don’t know if I’ll get to it before preseason starts.

Go Phils!

edit: Oh, and I forgot to do this earlier - starting tomorrow, you should see the wild card standings and scoreboard in the Game Thread!

Hello all!

Some good news on the bot front due to the upgrade to 18.1 both here and on fanaticus.social:

• No more 10k limit! All your highlight goodness is back in the game thread.
• No more web sockets, meaning that our game threads will no longer harass people not interested in Baseball.

So, what does this mean for you? The bot has the capability of posting game status as comments in the game thread. We can configure it to post just certain game situations - like pitching changes and scoring plays, all the way up to a near play-by-play experience.

So, What level of bot comments do you want to see?

1. Nothing - just user comments
2. Phillies scoring plays
3. Both team scoring plays
4. Scoring plays + Pitching changes
5. Phillies base hits + above
6. Phillies pitcher K's, + above
7. Turn on the firehose

...or some other combination that suits your fancy? Let me know in the comments below, and I'll adjust the bot config to suit.

Edit: Sounds like everyone is voting for option 4, though I'm adding Phils Ks just because I like them. If you hate it, let me know and I'll turn it off.

Also, lemmy.world has been acting weird. I'll keep trying to figure out what's wrong, but if the game thread isn't updating, go check out the game thread in [email protected].