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I have learned a lot with the start of this season and the bot going live. The bot uses the AniList api to fetch the scheduled airing times for the different shows as well as how long episodes are. Then, it is supposed to make the post after the episode has fully finished airing.
In my testing during the Winter season preceding, this all worked great. However, what I have found from this current season is that the AniList api isn't quite fully updated at the very beginning of the season. In this case, the duration that the api returned for the episode was 0 minutes. This meant that the bot simply made the thread right when the premiere was scheduled to start. This wasn't a problem when I was testing last season because the api was all fixed up after the first week or so.
I think next season, I might just hardcode something like an hour delay from premiere time to post creation.
I thought the AniList API wasn't even publicly available. Or at least, so went the impression I got from the Mihon devs when I looked over their Git repo.
Here are the docs if you are feeling enterprising and want to do something with it. I will say that the manga/LN side of the api is a lot less complete/useful compared to the anime side.