@PostWatchBot - notify new comments on a post

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• iso@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All of you asked for it, so the bot will now send PMs instead of replying to comments :) Please don’t beat me up again 😨

  @donio@lemmy.world @smeg@feddit.uk @rglullis@communick.news @nix@merv.news @Jumuta@sh.itjust.works

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  • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    see? violence is always the answer!

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Given the backlash against everyone who tries to make a reddit-lemmy mirroring bot then hopefully you’ve saved yourself a headache in the future!

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    • iso@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TBH I don’t like those bots either 👍

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  • nix@merv.news ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks! Its super convenient! Is it just me or does clicking the link it provides opens the thread but not the comment itself? Would be convenient since im guessing replies to comments dont cause a notification?

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    • iso@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah make sense. I’ve updated it to work that way 👍

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  • nix@merv.news ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is it possible to subscribe to a comment thread as well? So if anyone replies to your comment I get a notification?

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    • iso@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes it is possible and I want to implement it soon, but I can’t give a date. I’m thinking of making it so that when the bot is mentioned in a reply to a comment, make it notify comments only on that comment chain.

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  • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks!

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• rglullis@communick.news ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So every user that decides to get notified will add a comment to the thread?

  If a 100 people trigger it, 100 comments will be the exact same response?

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  • iso@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Valid criticism. I’ll try to clear it tomorrow 👍 Any suggestions are appreciated.

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    • nix@merv.news ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It could send a message to the user instead of commenting on the thread

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    • rglullis@communick.news ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why not send the messages/instructions as a PM as well?

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• MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks but I don’t think this is a good method. We need an addon like RES, or built-in like on Saidit, or a script like this: gist.github.com/NathanSweet/de43d5b2cb0c0836763b

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  • iso@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know about the options you’ve said but I agree this should be a built-in feature. But it’s not.

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• Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah, another handy bot handle to add to my Geyboard shortcuts. Nice!

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  • Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah, another handy bot handle to add to my Geyboard shortcuts. Nice!

    @PostWatchBot@lemy.lol

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• donio@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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

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  • iso@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • cynber@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 :)

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨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!

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• Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nice :) @PostWatchBot@lemy.lol

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  • PostWatchBot@lemy.lol [bot] ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      stop

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    • Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And yes, it works

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How does it subscribe when lemmy doesn’t have subscribing or notification apps? Does it just pill the server? (As a server owner the amount of traffic there worries me, and that could cost me depending on implementation)

  If it’s polling, how do you know to stop polling? Will it just poll a post forever?

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  • iso@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Its polling every 30th second only on my instance. So don’t worry, it will not make any difference for you ✌️

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    • ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      in theory as you operate both the server and the bot you could modify lemmy to tell the bot when a new comment hits a thread instead of polling, which would be more efficient (but definitely harder to do!)

      also does it handle the case where nobody from your instance is following a community? to make sure you get all the replies reliably the bot would need to subscribe to each community it’s watching a post from

      that said, great work. I may end up using it if I don’t end up forgetting about its existence :p

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• iso@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To avoid embarrassment, let me try it first :)

  @PostWatchBot@lemy.lol

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  • PostWatchBot@lemy.lol [bot] ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • iso@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I hope it works 😅

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• sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s cool. I wish a function like this was built into Lemmy.

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  • Die4Ever@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the issue is being tracked here github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3069

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  • iso@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same.

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