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Happy New Year, [email protected]! 🎉

As you may have noticed, the game day thread bot is back up! 🥳 For anyone that missed it, it went down because the NHL dramatically changed their API, and a good portion of the bot needed to be rewritten. I have mostly updated the bot to use the new API. A couple of caveats: 1. They no longer provide data for which goalie was in net when a goal was scored. Currently this field is empty in the posts. I might remove the column entirely if I don't find a good way to get the data (without for example looping through the whole play by play just for this one piece of data). I also might just replace it with if the net is empty or not, since info is provided. I'm definitely open to feedback on this. 2. The bot is still occasionally freezing and crashing. This will get cleaned up over time. If you notice data not updating, or any data is incorrect or wonky-looking, please take a screenshot and send it to me!

By the way, the bot is open source! If you wa

Hello, [email protected]!

Great news: The GDT bot seems to be working great. It has been up for 4 straight days with no crashes. There were a few hitches that I was able to fix on my end. There's one outstanding one that rarely causes the bot to get stuck for about 15 minutes, but that is currently in the hands of the people who make the Lemmy python library that I am using. I created an issue for it on github, and it appears that they have agreed to fix it.

I hope everyone has had a chance to look at the posts that the bot is making and follow along while you watch your favorite team. But let's be real, how could you avoid the posts the bot is making? That's actually what I want to bring up. I know it is still preseason and interaction is bound to be low, but having 80% of the posts in the community just be GDTs seems like too much. I have been discussing with the folks that are interacting with the GDT

I have been working on this pretty heavily over the past week and a half and wanted to share my progress.

https://lemmy.ca/post/5577416

This is a random game from last year just so I had some real data to work this. This is the game, in case you wanted to compare and make sure everything is correct.

It should be ready to go for the preseason. Let me know if you have any other suggestions of what could be added!

The next thing I want to add is a daily thread with links to all the GDTs. It would get pinned each day so everyone can easily find the thread for their favorite team. But I haven't started on that yet.

Hi All

I am currently in the early stages of working on a GDT bot for this community. I wanted to communicate early in case any one else started working on the same thing so we can combine our efforts instead of duplicating them. This is for the community, so I wanted to know the community's thoughts on what features are important or not, or if there are any features that you want.

I am taking heavy inspiration from the reddit GDT bot for formatting and feautres, but definitely don't expect all of those features right at launch. Questions for the community:

• Are there any features that you wished the reddit GDT bot had?
• Are there any features that you wished the reddit GDT bot didn't have, say if it is a distraction or takes up too much space on the screen?
• How would you feel about having the bot leave a comment with additional info instead of cluttering up the main body? (not sure if this is possible with the Lemmy API I am using)

My goal is to have a functioning minimum