Comment on @PostWatchBot - notify new comments on a post
donio@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Subscribe to a post: just mention the bot in the comments.
I am not a huge fan of the noise this adds the threads. Would be nice if Lemmy frontends could provide better ways to interact with bots. For example custom buttons that would PM the bot with the appropriate message to trigger the action
iso@lemy.lol 6 months ago
This feature must be implemented by built-in in the first place. But your idea makes sense too. I’ll try to discuss this with UI devs.
cynber@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I might be able to set something up with the InstanceAssistant browser extension. It would be nice to have it in the main UI, but this could help temporarily.
I’ll send a PM :)
smeg@feddit.uk 6 months ago
I’d second the worry about the bot comments and bot-summoning comments becoming noise, I remember all the “remind me” comments on reddit clogging up comment feeds!
iso@lemy.lol 6 months ago
I’m moving bot messages to PMs right now. So there will be no bot message.
smeg@feddit.uk 6 months ago
That’s good, though I’d imagine people would still rather not read 100 bot-summoning comments on a popular thread. Any way to activate the bot via PM too? Or maybe by sharing somehow?