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has anyone made a reminder bot for Lemmy? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 6 months ago by kionite231@lemmy.ca to c/rust@programming.dev
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Greetings,

sometimes I want to read new comments on a particular post but I don't want to check it every hour to see new comments. It would be nice if I can just say "!remind 5h" so that I get a reminder to checkout a specific post which would have new comments after 5 hour.

I am thinking about making it myself in Rust, but if there is already a bot here and I don't know, please tell me.

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[–] copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why should it be a bot? It could be a feature built into Lemmy itself.

You could request it here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

wow, never thought of this! neat!

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Noo that bot is a big wart on reddit. Add something on the client side instead.

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

@remindme@mstdn.social 30 minutes. "How many comments say remind me?"

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thank you I was looking for exactly something like this!

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hey, if you did want to build this yourself, a handy feature the Reddit version has is that it replies to the comment confirming the reminder has been set, and includes a link to DM the bot prefilled with information to receive the same reminder. It saves dozens of people needing to make the same "remind me" comment.

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

that's actually useful, Thank you for sharing the idea!

[–] remindme@mstdn.social 6 points 6 months ago

@horse_battery_staple Here is your reminder!

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 6 months ago

Idk if there's already a bot, but I will say that as much as I detest JavaScript, the library someone already made for Lemmy would absolutely trivialise a big chunk of this kind of task. You just set a handler on the username mention and a scheduler to go through the archive on a Cron to send out any reminders.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 6 months ago

I'm not sure if there is a particular one written in Rust... But a Google search returns several open source remindme-bots for Lemmy. And I've seen one in some community. Plus Mastodon bots are supposed to work here, because of federation.