Adding native scheduled/recurring topics, let's figure out which ones we want to have

Deimos
Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:56:31 +0000

I've just pushed up a commit that adds the backend for configuring and posting topics automatically on a schedule. I'm still working on the UI to be able to set them up through the site, but I can add them manually pretty easily now.

So first, thanks very much to the people that have been manually posting these recurring topics for months. They've been a source of lots of great conversation, and I really appreciate people making sure to keep posting them regularly. Thanks also to @hungariantoast and @deing specifically for doing the work of writing a script to do automatic posting, and the kinda-API-wrapper that it uses. That made sure that multiple of those topics were posted consistently for quite a while before I got around to implementing this.

I'd like to start setting up all of the recurring topics "properly" in the new system, so let's talk about which ones we already have, and potentially some others that we'd want to add. We should probably also try to space them out a little, so there's not a dump of them at the same times. Here are some of the ones that come to mind immediately for me, but I'm sure I'm missing some, and if there are others that you think would be good to have, let me know. I know there are other ones that have dropped off and it would probably be good to resurrect them:

Group | Topic
~anime | What have you been watching/reading this week?
~books | What are you reading these days?
~comp | Fortnightly programming Q&A
~creative | What creative projects have you been working on?
~games | What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
~talk | What are you doing this weekend?
~talk | What are you doing this week?

There are also some others that vary every week, so I probably won't be able to set those up yet (like @aphoenix's recent ~games.tabletop weekly discussions), but once there's a UI we should be able to start configuring them ahead of time.

Any thoughts on those existing recurring topics, suggestions for new ones to add, or old ones to bring back?

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