I am very excited to be done with the Daily Discussion Thread feature. It was quite a bit more work than I was expecting, but I think it was necessary to reduce the number of posts made by the bot.
Here's how it works:
Once a day at midnight GMT-12 (8 AM EDT/7 AM EST), a daily post like this one is made. In the body, it will have all the start times of the game. After they start, it will show the game clock and the score of the games. One hour before each game starts, the bot will leave a comment in this thread with all the game details. Folks will be able to discuss the games under the comment with the game details.
This feature was designed to be configurable, so if we grow and want to go back to the old way, it will be an easy flip of a switch in a config file. Currently I have it configured so preseason and regular season games are posted in comments to the daily post, and allstar and postseason games get their own post.
As usual all posts and comments will updated every 30 seconds with up to date stats, game clock, goals, etc.