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[META] Where the daily thread at? (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 years ago by trk@aussie.zone to c/brisbane@aussie.zone

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Our Southern cousins in Sydney and Melbourne have daily threads which encourages a bit of chatter.... Where's ours?

I'd love to be the change I wish to see in the world, but I have no idea how to automate this any better than an alarm on my phone saying "post a daily thread idiot" and I'm sure there's a better way.

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[–] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you able to tell me what app and how you actually run it? Having code is great, but no one seems able/willing to tell me what to actually do with the code. I have been running it in Visual Script on my laptop which works for a while but not for long. I've also been trying to use Vercel to run from their server, but I can only get it to run there in build mode (which is time limited) and not transfer it to an ongoing cron job.

[–] deadcat@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've cleaned up my code and checked it in here: https://github.com/dfrencham/lemmy-post-bot

I use Visual Studio code (I run it using the Linux subsystem for windows).

I've put instructions in the README.md file, and cron setup instructions in the SETUP_CRON.md file.

If you are not setup to build the bot, then I can create a built version and post a .tar.gz file for you to use.

[–] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thank you, that is a lot simpler than the code I was using. Although I have miraculously got mine to work now, so will probably stick with that rather trying to redo it at this point, at least for now. It's been a steep learning curve, but I am starting to somewhat understand what I am looking at with the code now, so that's something!

[–] deadcat@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Great to hear it is working :) always a great feeling.

I've updated my code to output a single .js file which can be called with node. The file is in a zip here: github

If you have a look at the code updates, you might find feature/unfeature code useful. :)

[–] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Fabulous, I'll have a look.

[–] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I enjoyed this and it was very wholesome. Well done you two.

[–] deadcat@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago