Update: To add or remove women’s game’s, you now need to add -w to the command. E.g. -football -w Barcelona - Liverpool or -remove -football -w Barcelona - Liverpool This is due to edge cases where men’s and women’s team share name and play against the same opponent on the same day. Women’s match thread will also be marked with [Women’s game] in the title.

As some of you may have seen, the community now has a match thread bot to help with automating creation and updating match threads.

The bot takes a request in the format -football football@lemmy.world Barcelona - Real Madrid and will look up to 6 days ahead for an upcoming match and add it to a queue. ~15 minutes before kick off it will make a post that it will continuously update with available score, stats and commentary.

To make a request you can either tag the bot or reply to one of the bot’s comments. See the comments for an interaction example.

The bot will work in any community federated with lemmy.world so if you want to create a live thread in e.g. c/gunners you could make a request like this -football gunners@lemmy.world Arsenal - Tottenham Hotspur

Do note that the bot requires approval from a mod or admin to post in a community. So unless you’re a mod/admin, you’ll need to ask them to approve the bot via -mod_action whitelist gunners@lemmy.world or become a trusted user that can bypass the block -mod_action trust username@instance.com gunners@lemmy.world

For a more detailed and technical overview of the bot’s capabilities, please check the readme in the gitlab repo: https://gitlab.com/UlrikHD/lemmy-match-thread-bot

Example output of a live thread: https://lemmy.ml/post/18633476

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      12 months ago

      It doesn’t seem like your tags on the other instance are being detected by lemmy.world. At least not within reasonably time.

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          Yeah there is some federation issues. From a lemmy.world account I can’t see any comments on superlig.

          I’ve set the bot to subscribe to superlig, so hopefully lemmy.world will start to sync activity from that community.

          Edit: for the record, it’s the same for programming.dev as it is for lemmy.world. lemmy.ml only sees the latest post, with no comments.

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            32 months ago

            I had actually removed the previous post and created a new one. I just commented to the new post to test it and it appears to be federated to both lemmy.world and programming.dev now. Since the bot responded to my comment, I guess the problem was about federation.

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              32 months ago

              Good to hear, let me know if any other problems arise. And just be aware that there will likely be some minutes of latency for the match threads since each edit have to federate from world to lemy.

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                Thanks for all. I need to ask one last thing, please excuse me :) Do I need to add community to request if I’m requesting from my community? I mean is it posting to [email protected] by default?

                edit: it looks like it’s using [email protected] by default 👍

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                  Yup

                  I’m hindsight it’s a poor choice, but it’s not worth the time to change as it’s just minor inconsistency.