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  • Vid bot guy back again…

    It might be best to switch it off for a week or so. It’s difficult to troubleshoot any bot issues when it seems like lemmy.world and the API are having their own issues every day. I’ll try to leave it running in a test community for longer and if it runs fine and then bring it back here.

    @skipseagull@lemmy.world if its easier for you to make @Football_Vid_Bot@lemmy.world a mod then I should (hopefully) be able to make it sticky/unsticky itself automatically every day for each new highlights post.














  • I agree that it should be changed somehow before August comes around. Opinions seemed mixed when the bot started so I didn’t want to unilaterally change anything.

    Potential options:

    1. We keep it as it is now.
    2. We ask @skipseagull@lemmy.world to permanently pin a post and all goals are comments.
    3. Same as 2 but allow a select group of goals involving ~30 “big” teams to also be posted as individual posts.
    4. A pinned post for goals between a certain time i.e. European goals as new posts, everything else into a pinned post as comments.








  • It looks on r/soccer for any post with the media flair. There’s no goal highlight flair unfortunately so there are filters to remove images, gifs, youtube, v.redd.it and posts without numbers in the title. Some non goal vids will slip through (and some missed penalties/sendings off could be missed with the numbers filter).

    Worth saying that r/soccer looks the same as here with goal vids everywhere when Europe is asleep. They maybe had one or two posts in between. It’s the same on a Saturday afternoon/busy midweek night. I could try and filter out some posts/teams until the sub grows a bit but not sure how.

    I don’t understand a single line of the python script fwiw. This is all just me asking bing chat how to do it and keeping my fingers crossed that it works.

    Edit: One option could be that between roughly 11pm - 10am in Europe (~6pm - 5am EST), a megathread is created and goals are posted there as individual comments instead. This way goals on non European continents aren’t completely ignored. Still negatives attached to that option though. Most of this sub will probably be North American and happy to see all the goals posted from the Americas.