While most of the people here upset and rightfully so, we have got to move past the angst to actually build this place out.
We have to recreate the environment and communities we’ve created on on Reddit here, so that people don’t feel like they’re missing out being on kbin.
That way, the next time Spez goes full Elon, we already have everything in place to make the jump.
I help run r/MMA on Reddit. We aggregate news as well as bringing on MMA figures for AMAs.
We, like many other magazines here, will need a way to quickly aggregate breaking news onto our magazine, and the easiest way to do that is going to be through a bot that mirrors submissions to our subreddit.
At least for the mags that rely on breaking news, if we implement this at scale, the end user wont be missing much by migrating over here if they get all the same great breaking news.
Do we have any bot builders in the house who could take this on as a project?
We would be leveraging Reddit’s own userbase at scale to better kbin, and eventually beat them in the long run. That’s the biggest L we could ever deal them.
EDIT: WASN’T SURE THIS WAS GONNA BLOW UP. IVE MADE https://kbin.social/m/BotIt FOR DEVELOPMENT. IF YOU’RE INTERESTED AND CAN HELP OR JUST WANT TO FOLLOW THE PROJECT, COME ON OVER. THANKS.
Won’t that become a problem when API access is highly restricted? Generally it is doable and should not be a very big project.
I’m clearly not an expert on this, but I know people scrape data without API’s
Of course it’s possible, but API would be the quickest and most simple solution.
Nah, bot scraping is different than API calls
Yes, you are right. My question pointed more in the direction whether an API solution is doable since it might be easier.
Technically I think? I think the free API license gets 100 calls a minute? Or an hour or something, I forget the time frame. On a medium sub, 100 posts a day would be updates every 15 minutes 24/7 I think. Not instant, but absolutely doable, and if you optimize the time for 6am-1am, that gives you one about every 12 min?