OK, bot has now been given a process management system to help run continually and not crash completely if there is an error. Not sure if it will help with the not posting at/after midnight issue, but it can't hurt and will give me a bit more information.
I have instructed the bot to post at 11:55, but after past failures am much less hopeful it will actually work ☹️ I've added in a few more test posts elsewhere at various intervals to try and get some more information about what is going wrong. At the moment the theory that the cat is sabotaging it seems as likely as anything else. It is very frustrating that every single test I do works perfectly, and the actual post doesn't.
FWIW one of my peeves with the way it worked on reddit is that a new thread at midnight can interrupt the thread conversations for night owls. I feel like a 4 AM time for the new thread would be good.
I love coffee! Isn’t this going to make it hard to sleep tonight having one so late or it doesnt really affect you? Maybe I should start investing in decaf.
My favourite type of nap is the coffee-overdose nap. Usually happens after the 8th or 9th mug, the tired takes over, conk out for a few hours, and wake up in a confused daze. 😗👌
I'm just about falling asleep. Maybe I'm actually telepathically controlling the program, and it fails when I am asleep and can't control it? That would be very inconvenient.
Its the best theory I have right now. She's trying to look disinterested, but she definitely has a keyboard obsession she's not been able to hide, so being a closet hacker is something I wouldn't put past her.
I've got it doing posts to the test community at 10:50 & 11:50, the main post at 11:55, posts to another community on another instance at midnight and 5 minutes later. I've already done multiple tests to everywhere, the only thing I can think of is that it has to be something about the specific times. Hopefully I will get enough information to figure out where to go from here.