Thanks! Its super convenient! Is it just me or does clicking the link it provides opens the thread but not the comment itself? Would be convenient since im guessing replies to comments dont cause a notification?
Yes it is possible and I want to implement it soon, but I can't give a date. I'm thinking of making it so that when the bot is mentioned in a reply to a comment, make it notify comments only on that comment chain.
How does it subscribe when lemmy doesn't have subscribing or notification apps? Does it just poll the server? (As a server owner the amount of traffic there worries me, and that could cost me depending on implementation)
If it's polling, how do you know to stop polling? Will it just poll a post forever?
in theory as you operate both the server and the bot you could modify lemmy to tell the bot when a new comment hits a thread instead of polling, which would be more efficient (but definitely harder to do!)
also does it handle the case where nobody from your instance is following a community? to make sure you get all the replies reliably the bot would need to subscribe to each community it's watching a post from
that said, great work. I may end up using it if I don't end up forgetting about its existence :p
Subscribe to a post: just mention the bot in the comments.
Not a huge fan of the noise this adds to the threads. Would be nice if Lemmy frontends could provide better ways to interact with bots. For example custom buttons that would PM the bot with the appropriate message to trigger the action.
I might be able to set something up with the InstanceAssistant browser extension. It would be nice to have it in the main UI, but this could help temporarily.
I'd second the worry about the bot comments and bot-summoning comments becoming noise, I remember all the "remind me" comments on reddit clogging up comment feeds!