Hello Jays fans! Finishing touches are coming together for my bot rewrite, and the new bots should be taking over tomorrow if all goes to plan. With that finally out of the way I can start to focus on adding to the community. By far the biggest request is for in-game linescore updates and highlights to be added to the game day threads. So that is going to be my next main focus. Good news is I don't think it will take anywhere near as long for those updates.
I wanted to create this thread as a centralized place for the community to suggest, well, anything relating to the community. Rules changes, bot/feature requests, banner/sidebar/icon photos, etc. I created this community way back when because personally I couldn't support that other site anymore, but I have no desire to rule this place with an iron fist. I encourage anyone and everyone to drop their suggestions here, and if enough of us agree with the changes, then I will do my best to implement them.
So far everyone here has been extremely respectful of each other, with lots of good discussion, and there has not been a need to add any more mods to the team as of yet(I haven't needed to perform a single mod action on any community comments/content). But as the need arises, if there are any volunteers feel free to list yourselves in this thread as well, and I can potentially draw from that pool of people first.
My thanks to all of you! We have started a great community here, I look forward to it's continued growth!
First of all, wanted to thank you so much for all you’ve done so far to build and support this community! I’m looking forward to watching the community continue to grow, and all your posting is appreciated in bringing more activity here.
A comment I had is that for the past month, I as a Kbin user haven’t been able to see the game threads posted by the bot :(. I’m not sure if there was a recent change to the bot that’s causing the automated threads to not federate, or if this is a Kbin specific issue. I checked and the last game thread available on Kbin was on July 26. Meanwhile I’ve been able to view all the user-created threads since then. I’m curious if people from Lemmy servers other than Lemmy.ca are having the same issue?
July 26th is the day the game day threads switched from being posted from my personal account to a bot account, which is marked as a bot account. I'm not sure how Kbin handles bot accounts, but I know on Lemmy, there's a checkbox in your user settings to allow bot content to be shown. If there is a similar setting for Kbin users I would think that would be the cause.
That is frustrating though, so please let me know here or in a DM if you can't resolve it, and I'll look into it further. I don't want to limit what Kbin users are able to see, so hopefully we can figure it out.
Thanks for reporting this!! This is a major issue, since it could greatly reduce our visibility to many people from other MLB instances (e.g., most MLB fans of other teams)! I tried checking from my porn alt account, but I couldn't see any of our posts, which I presume is due to lemmy.ca defederating lemmynsfw.com. I don't have another account to test this with
So I created a test account on Kbin, and it seems the game threads are hidden for me too. I'm also not seeing any settings for the magazine subscription or in account settings to explicitly show bot content. I'm sure that has to be the problem, but I'm not sure what the solution is. I can untag the bot as a bot and pretend it's not, but that's not really fair to Lemmy users who use the bot toggle and do not want to see any bot content. I guess this is a question for the Lemmy.ca/Kbin admins, because I'm not sure what else would be stopping Kbin from seeing bot posts.
Edit - Created a test account on lemmy.world as well, and the game day threads show up there without any fiddling around. So it does seem to be specific to Kbin unfortunately.
I haven’t looked into this any further but I’ll try to investigate sometime and see if bot posts on Lemmy communities in general do not federate with Kbin at this time, or if this is an issue with this community specifically.
I agree with you that it’s frustrating and I’m hoping this is something we can eventually fix. It makes sense to keep them tagged as bot posts on Lemmy - better to look for more of a long term solution.
Hopefully we can figure this out sooner rather than later, I want you to be able to contribute to our game day threads! I'm not sure how to contact the Kbin admins directly, but I've made a post here to ask about it. So far no solutions.