Hello and welcome everyone. You may or may not recognize my username from around the /r/TorontoBlueJays subreddit. I was mostly a dedicated lurker, but I would occasionally post in the game day threads. I created this community a few days ago as a placeholder for the /r/TorontoBlueJays Reddit mods, in the event they wanted to use this to migrate to if Reddit goes the Digg route. To my surprise there are already 28 subscribers here!
I have never moderated a subreddit before, let alone create one from scratch, so there will likely be some growing pains unless some of the old mods want to jump in and can throw me a life saver. I’m currently working on setting up a bot to post game day threads, but that is likely still weeks away. In the meantime, I will manually post pre/live/post game threads, but even that may not be completely reliable. Any help there is appreciated, if a thread hasn’t been posted yet feel free to create one and start the discussion.
I did message the mods at /r/TorontoBlueJays, and received a reply from /u/DirtyThi3f that the mods had not yet discussed any plans thus far for moving forward post Reddit, other than the already established Discord channel. I love Discord, but I personally wanted more of a Reddit style forum/board for posting and discussion at a slightly slower pace, that doesn’t bury old information immediately with the new.
If anyone here has any experience modding and wants to help please reach out, I will take all the help I can get. Feel free to post any tips/suggestions you may have for the community, and if anyone has any coding/graphic design experience that they’d be willing to donate some of their time for that would also be immensely appreciated.
I look forward to talking Jays with all of you here!
Hello! I’m the admin of fanaticus.social, a sports-only instance. I too have been working on a game bot. I forked the popular redball app and have been collaborating with a couple other former redditors on it. We have the game bot stable now and I’m rolling it out to other communities (see https://fanaticus.social/post/57612). You can check out the repo’s issues to see where we are with development.
You can join us on discord in the lemmy channel if you want to collaborate so we don’t duplicate work.
Oh wow, thanks! I will definitely check that out. I have what I think will get me a functional game day thread now, but I still have a lot of work to fill in all the gaps.
Nice! Well feel free to fork ours. Redball seemed to be the reddit standard which is why I chose that. The maintainer has also been really helpful and supportive as we’ve been working on this.
Did you build it from scratch or fork an existing bot from reddit?
I built mine from scratch using statsapi.mlb.com API endpoints and the go-lemmy package. All it does at this point is check if there’s a game today, generates a post title and body for a game day thread, and posts to this community with my user. Nothing is automated yet, and I haven’t set it up to update the post body with new information as lineups come out, or updating a linescore once the game starts, etc.
Ah well if you’re interested in building it out on your own, you should at least check out the features on redball to get an idea of what direction to go. Todd, the maintainer, built a whole platform for configuring the bot and with a ton of other goodies like alerts, logging, and of course, live updates.