It's still very much a work in progress, but I have just created @[email protected] with the intent to automatically post the daily game posts, rather than people need to do it themselves.
For now it's just Connections as I'm still working out the kinks (it didn't succeed in getting it up the first time today...I had to stop and re-run it to get it to work). But I would like to expand it to some more games later: post suggestions in the comments.
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Hey, great timing \ idea. I just had to turn off my Travle bot because it was flaking out.
When you're ready, if you could please post Travle.Earth and WhenTaken, that would be great. Thank you!
Out of interest, how did you develop that bot? I've been using the lemmy-bot npm package, with its frustratingly-under-documented "schedule" property. It was amazingly easy to work with, once I figured out the basic structure.
Hey, so I got lazy and was giving this a try:
https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmySchedule
While it worked, it was good. But then it randomly duplicated scheduled posts and I shut it down. I plan to go back to writing a python script if I find the time.
Ha, yeah, Python would probably be my choice if I were working from scratch. This is the one I was working with. And it seems to be working pretty well, though I'm not sure yet what caused by bot to fail to submit on schedule when I just left it running today.