Apologies to anyone who's been browsing the site overnight. I decided to update my bot and then go to bed, which seemed like a really good idea at the time. It was not a good idea. The bot decided it was a good idea to post a new Off Day thread every 10 minutes after midnight, until mercifully at 2am the cron job stops running. Thanks to @[email protected] for messaging me to try to stop the madness.
I should have the problems with the game day bot figured out at this point, so until I break more things, we should see at most one thread per day, either a Game Day thread or an Off Day thread. I have plans to continue expanding the Game Day bot to update the thread during games with the linescore, boxsore, and a list of links to game-highlight videos to bring the features more inline with the features the bot the reddit mods were using.
The standings in the sidebar is now run by bot as well. Going forward it will just be updating once a day at 8am (today 10:40am because of the issues overnight), although I may change this to update again at 5pm, 11pm and 2am to get the changes after afternoon games and the east/west coast evening games respectively finish.
I am also going to work on the obligatory Fuck the Yankees bot today, which shouldn't take too much work to get going, so please everyone, say it with me. Fuck the Yankees.
If anyone has any more ideas for feature bots please feel free to share them. No guarantees I will be able to implement all suggestions at all, and the timeline will be long for most things as well - I'm a decent programmer, but I'm slow and also learning Go Lang as I go through this process.
Finally thanks to all the subscribers here, we're now up to 170 which is absolutely insane to me! Lets go Jays!
6 games left. Need 3 wins against New York and Tampa. LFG.