Baseball

Hi all, just wanted to start a conversation about filling this community with content.

I've been working hard on the admin side of things the past few weeks, with most of my effort going towards ensuring we have stable and robust servers, as well as migrating the game bot to lemmy.

What we're missing in this community most is the content though. I know a lot of your might just be lurkers but the grand experiment that is lemmy will only work out if we start generating our own content.

That means posting highlights and discussion topics and commenting on threads. Don't be a lurker! At least, not until we generate enough critical mass to have our new sports communities healthy.

We also need mods and content creators who are willing to make their own team's community feel like home, not just the main sports ones.

Finally, I just want to say that I'm open to any and all suggestions to make this community better and more engaging. If you have any ideas (e.g. daily discussion threads, game of the day bot, etc.), post them!

cross-posted from: https://fanaticus.social/post/22176

Just wanted to everyone subscribed to this community and update one the game day bots:

Some of you may have noticed there's a game day bot that's been posting to some of your communities. I forked the popular redball bot that's widely used on reddit and have been working to get it compatible with lemmy.

That project is not complete but I plan on putting in a lot of work this weekend in order to squash the bugs and add in the remaining missing features.

Once complete, I'll roll out a standard version of it to all of the baseball communities on fanaticus. That being said, I don't want to be the guy running every baseball community on fanaticus. Anyone who wants to run a community can ask to be a mod and I'll work with them to set up and configure their own baseball bot.

06/20/23 Update:

I've added about 10 game bots to your communities so far. You may have noticed that your community used to have a bot but doesn't anymore. That's because I've moved the bots to run on our beefed up server instead of my local machine and haven't re-created them there.

There are still a couple kinks I'm working through (see @royals_bot@fanaticus.social's mayhem yesterday) but otherwise things are going well. There is one major issue I'm running into now and would like some feedback on:

Lemmy only has a 10k character limit on post bodies. Reddit has 40k. The current bot easily pushes the 10k limit which breaks the post update. The main culprit is the highlight table. If there's a lot of action, we hit the limit. I can either:

1. Check for 10k character limit and truncate (not ideal)
2. Remove entire sections of the post (i.e. the highlights)

If I remove the highlights and just post them as comments, that might be ideal. Any thoughts?

Has anyone ever watched one of these?

Hitting is hard yo.

Happy Father's Day, everyone!

Baseball's back baby!

This guy is insane!

"Major League Baseball (MLB), the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) and Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. jointly announced Tuesday the launch of the "HBCU Swingman Classic,” an annual All-Star experience for baseball student-athletes from Division-I programs at Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU). The philanthropic & educational event, which will center around an “All-Star” Game, will be held during 2023 MLB All-Star Week in July at T-Mobile Park, home of the Seattle Mariners, the franchise for which Griffey Jr. played for 13 seasons during his legendary career."