Update: All baseball communities should have a game bot now!! 🎉
Please let me know if your community is missing its bot or you want to change the configuration or you want to start running it yourself.
The fans' home for baseball.
If you’re a member of the original mod team for r/baseball (or just wish to help out in general), DM @[email protected] and I’ll restore your position :)
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Please let me know if your community is missing its bot or you want to change the configuration or you want to start running it yourself.
All of the game bots completed successfully last night. 29/30 of the bots ran on our beefy server with no issues. There was a slight hiccup initially with three bots but a quick restart of those three fixed the problem.
You may have noticed though that we have an issue with unstickying post-game threads. We're investigating now.
I will also be working on porting the side-bar bot today so get excited!
Went looking through redball
's forks and think I found yours, but wanted to be sure. Is this the correct fork/branch you're working on, https://github.com/benja810/redball/tree/lemmy-game-threads?
Yup, that's the one! @[email protected], AKA @[email protected] and I are talking dev here https://discord.gg/ptXxW6Pg
To-do:
[x] Fix bug w/ 10k limit
[x] Roll out baseball bot to all remaining teams
[ ] Port the side-bar updater bot
[ ] Add observability to redball app (I need to be alerted when there are errors)
Also, I really want to encourage some of you guys to take over the communities and make them your own. I am obviously not a fan of every MLB team and don't want to moderate all the communities. Please let me know if you want to mod a community and/or take over your community's bot.
I've been meaning to say something about helping. I'd be happy to help mod [email protected] and [email protected] .
Thank you for volunteering! I added you.
Didn't see a GameDay thread for [email protected]
Hi sorry there's a little bug that has been plaguing the game bots and because I'm out of town right now I turned off the game bots until I can properly debug.
See this post for more details https://fanaticus.social/post/113939
No problem. Thanks for the work on the bot, hopefully the participation will increase.
RE: the character limit, there are two Issues for this in GH.
Looks like they increased the limit to 50k on the front-end but not the back-end.
I'm curious - if this fix goes in, and you upgrade fanaticus, will federation choke if the back-end of the client instance isn't upgraded? (~~It looks like a fix is checked in, but hasn't been released.~~ In theory you could run a fixed branch / patch your instance, but I don't know what that would break)
Do you mean if fanaticus is upgraded but not the other instances?
Correct. It sounds like the database isn't constrained, but I don't know if it does the size check on federation. I'd think it would have to, or it could be a security/ddos exploit.
Good question. I don't know if this is going to make it into the next release (the devs haven't answered me on that). But I'd imagine that would complicate things.
Can we pin comments within a post? Is the character limit also 10k in comments?
Perhaps pinned top level comments for highlights?
I was watching today's game day thread in [email protected] . A couple of things I noticed:
Separate scoring summary and highlights takes up a lot of space in the past body. It takes quite a while to scroll through. Perhaps they could be combined?
Having scoring plays as top-level comments was kind of cool and not something I've seen before. I can imagine those sparking mini conversations as threads. But, they get a bit redundant with the scoring summary in the body.
Those are just my impressions and, to be honest, I kind of avoided game day threads on Reddit. They could just get ... tedious, I guess?
I do believe there is a 10k limit in comments.
We can "speak as mod" which lights comments but we can't pin them to the top.
Gotcha, that stinks.
@[email protected] , just noticed that the gameday bot failed to run for [email protected] today. :/
Damn, sorry about that. I've been stuck at the airport forever now so I haven't been keeping tabs on things as closely as I would normally. It looks like there were a few bots that had a hiccup. I believe it's a rate limit issue.
At least the game thread posted ¯\(ツ)/¯
No worries! Daily life is more important than a baseball community bot. Sorry I didn't catch it sooner.
I've re-activated all the game bots. I want to see if the issue related to the panicking bots is fixed with the update to 0.18.1