After reading this post and many comments supporting the use of a bot, I started testing a repost bot (initially announced here) on a test community.

It seems to be working well so far, with posts every 10mins. Since it uses GitHub Actions, there’s no hosting aspect involved. Although the actions might not start exactly every 10mins, which means in some cases the posts maybe be a bit more delayed, no hosting means it will work as long as the GitHub Actions service is not shut down.

Unless there’s serious opposition (happy to hear thoughts in the comments), I plan to deploy it here starting next week. If you simply do not like bots or don’t want to get spammed, you can select “Block user”.

  • OtterA
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been waiting for the bot as well, it looks good!

    I think it’s good for users to post content when it comes to content we have time to sit and ponder over. With sales and discounts, as long as the source isn’t spammy, a bot is better. Users can downvote away the deals that are bs