Edit: so looks like there was an issue in the daily transition and the bot went crazy spamming the same daily index post over & over 😞 we apologize for that, and we’re already working on a fix

Edit 2: Fix is done and released, going to keep an eye on it in upcoming days

Hi everyone,

Happy to share that over the last days we have been working on a new Lemmy-native NBA Game Day Bot for this community, and today we activated it 🎉

Currently, our bot knows how to:

  • Create a Daily Discussion + Game Thread Index with a list of today’s games, start date, status and links to the Game Thread & Post-Game Thread (when available).

  • Create a Daily Game Thread for every game starting 15min before game start, keeping overall score and quarterly breakdown by team updated every minute, and when the game ends it adds the final score to the title.

  • Create a Post Game Thread for every game that ends with a detailed breakdown of team & player statistics.

You can see a few examples for these below, check them out.

We would also love to hear your feedback and suggestions, so feel free to post suggestions here or PM the bot directly

We hope you enjoy it!

The mod team 🏀

A few NBA bot post examples:

      • BasicallyClean@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        We are living proof of that. We have the #1, #2, #3 most commented threads ever on kbin on m/MMA for our threads. People just show up.

        • Barns@lemmy.worldOPM
          6·
          1 year ago

          Yes, I’m working on open sourcing it, it’s just pretty hack-y (I’m not a python expert…) and very NBA-specific but I’ll ping you when I do!

    • IronRain@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      Summer League threads are usually pretty low volume even on r/nba. Unfortunately, we missed the big-name free agency and trade deadlines to foster discussion, so the real foundation for this community will probably be opening week (pre-season is also low volume or a bunch of low-effort overreactions anyways).

      • LostMyRedditLogin@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        True. It also hurts that teams are protecting their top ten picks after a few games. I would have liked to see more Wembanyama minutes.

        • IronRain@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          I hate the concept of resting your 20 year old draft picks. Some of these players - especially Wemby - need all the exposure and development they can get. That’s why I loved Jabari Smith Jr’s attitude about Summer League, and the fact that Max Christie has played every game so far!

      • Barns@lemmy.worldOPM
        4·
        1 year ago

        Absolutely, I wanted to get it out before Summer League ends so we can find issues and get feedback from everyone, I fully expected the actual threads to be pretty quite

  • Darren@lemmy.world
    131·
    1 year ago

    Thanks to everyone who put this together. I’m sure it was a lot of hard work, but I think I can speak for the majority of the community that this is something that is extremely valuable to fostering growth over time.

  • naneek@lemmy.ca
    121·
    1 year ago

    There must be an incorrect loop condition as the bot is currently spamming /c/nba every 2 mins with a new pinned post.

    Please fix and clean out the old posts!!

  • Vlhacs@reddthat.com
    6·
    1 year ago

    Awesome, hope to see lemmy-based NBA communities become more like /r/NBA. This definitely helps build and starts more conversation everyday

    • Barns@lemmy.worldOPM
      4·
      1 year ago

      not yet but it’s high on my list so stay tuned. I first need to clean out all the summer league hacks I made since the nba api library I use (https://github.com/swar/nba_api) didn’t support it… then a bit of tidying up and we should be good to go.

  • Anxiatus@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    Wow this is nice! Can the comments be sorted by live where the comments are updated real time without refreshing?

    • Barns@lemmy.worldOPM
      4·
      1 year ago

      That would be Lemmy functionality, not the bot’s, and I believe that’s currently not possible since Lemmy removed web sockets so the servers can’t “push” updates to the website in real time. You may remember that even on reddit it was an external site that was built to overcome the same limit…

      • Anxiatus@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I didnt know about that in Reddit. Is it because of security concerns? Would be nice to sort it out by live or something like slow mode

        • Barns@lemmy.worldOPM
          1·
          1 year ago

          not security related but it creates additional load on the system. We can eventually look into building something similar.