New releases are a chance to talk about how a project is developing. I’m happy to make another post in a bigger community to get more feedback, but I wanted to check here first to see if this is something you might want to do @[email protected]

A potential process could be

  1. User makes a request in [email protected], and tags the relevant mod
  2. If the mod approves, they can tag the admin of this instance to turn the feed on

There are also general communities that this could work for, such as [email protected] or [email protected], but those communities are active and may see this as spam. It may help to crosspost the bot posts to them instead.

Technical:

Potential issue: Repos with lots of pre-releases may feel like spam. Relevant issues here and here. Those repos could be skipped.

(sorry if this was already discussed)

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catMEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    I think it’s a good idea. I want to make it possible for people to administer their own feeds, without creating spam, and I think having moderators able to add feeds to communities they moderate would be a good stepping stone.

    How about adding a feature to let people write:

    @bot@rss.ponder.cat add https://some/feed !some_community@instance
@bot.rss.ponder.cat remove https://some/feed !some_community@instance

    in DMs or comments, and control their subscriptions directly? I’m still not sure about letting them do that to create communities on rss.ponder.cat, but for communities they already moderate, it sounds like a good thing.

    • OtterOPAEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      I think that could work well!

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catMEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I’m starting to test out this system, although it took me a little longer than I thought. Do you want to add any feeds? You can be the one to give it a test run first, if you want to. Otherwise I’ll make a public announcement and see what happens.

        You have to DM the bot, and you have to be a moderator of the community you’re editing feeds for. I did comment mentions initially, but it looks like they may not federate reliably. I think DMs are a better way to do it for the time being.

        • OtterOPAEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Cool that sounds good! I’ll give it out slowly with a few communities

          I like the about section on the bot’s user profile

    • bot@rss.ponder.catBEnglish
      21·
      3 months ago

      No commands found. Did you mean to send me RSS commands?

      Available commands:

      • /add {rss_url} {community}@{instance} - Add a new RSS feed
      • /delete {rss_url} {community}@{instance} - Delete an existing RSS feed
      • /list {community}@{instance} - List all feeds for a community
      • /help - Show this help message

      You can include multiple commands in a single message, each on a new line.

        • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catMEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          I can’t decide between /list and !list as the command format. I think !list is a more standard format for bot interactions, but ! already means a community name, and the duplication is not ideal, so I went with /list. I keep typing !list though.

          • OtterOPAEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            I went through a similar chain of thoughts, I think this should work :)

            Another option is -list, but that might be more for command line flags