My Lemmy Schedule app now includes the option to get notified of new posts in a specific community!

In case you haven’t heard about the app before, here’s what other things it can do:

  • schedule a post and post it to multiple communities
    • you can upload an image as well and choose between uploading to your Lemmy instance or to Imgur
  • create a recurring post that gets posted at a specific date and time (especially useful for daily/weekly/monthly/end-of-month threads)
  • schedule pinning and unpinning of posts (instance and community)
    • the pinning and unpinning can be specified as part of creating a post
  • the aforementioned notifications about unread posts from a specific community (useful for mods)
    • can be also set using a recurring schedule, so you can get the report daily/weekly/monthly etc.

To learn more, visit the !schedule@lemmings.world community.

P.S. It’s open source and can be self-hosted using docker!

  • derocker@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Genuine question. Why would one want to post the same thing to multiple communities? Wouldn’t that just be considered spam?

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    1 year ago

    This is awesome! Could we use this to subscribe to a post to receive updates on edits and new comments?

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      1 year ago

      Not currently, but getting notifications for new comments might be nice. The edits are not really possible in any sane way, I would have to store every version to see if it changed. Or I would have to store the last time you visited. Neither of which I really want to do, the app doesn’t store any permanent data about its users, everything is always stored in the queued job only and then forgotten once the job runs.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve used this tool from the developer’s instance. It works as intended. I haven’t tried the new release.

    I was skeptical that it would work to be honest. Particularly as I am a kbin user modding a kbin community. However, I was able to create an alt account on a lemmy instance and give the account mod status in the kbin community. So I use that account to post. I would be nice if kbin could be directly supported but I understand there are ongoing issues with the kbin API — lack-thereof. For time being, the workaround has been functional.

    Logging in to the interface now, I can’t see any of the previous scheduled posts I’ve made which did used to be visible. Maybe the new version is a breaking change from prior. Which is fine with me. This kind of thing will obviously have an experimental nature to it. I am hoping that going forward the previously-scheduled posts will be visible because it is convenient.

    My review is five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for the application. Thank you @rikudou for building and sharing this very useful application.

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    1 year ago

    Probably needs a name change at this point, as it does more then schedule posts.

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        1 year ago

        Technically that’s true, but if i am interested in that feature and looking through awesome-lemmy and see the name lemmy schedule i might think it won’t have that feature and then won’t check it out.

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          1 year ago

          Ah, didn’t know it was there. Would you suggest any better description? I’ve currently changed it to “App for scheduling posts, pins/unpins and notifications about new content”, though I feel like it could be better.

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            1 year ago

            On second thought i don’t know if a name change is needed as this functionality will probably be added to lemmy natively and might make yours obsolete.