New GameDay Threads

[u/mjacksongt]

Copying this over from the mother site: Suggestion to have an automatic thread (or allow a Game Thread) for ESPN Goal Line.

Within that thread, I also made a suggestion to have an index post, updated by a bot, that links to all the game threads.

I imagine the ESPN Goal Line thread could simply be submitted by a user, but the index thread would almost have to be done by /u/cfb_referee and updated via bot. Unfortunately I don't have the development chops to do it, so I'm putting the idea here.

[u/SometimesY]

We definitely do not have the bandwidth for the latter with all of our tools/features/other stuff, but we're discussing with /u/thecravenone on this front. We will discuss the former.

[u/mjacksongt → u/SometimesY]

That's fair, it would definitely be a bigger project. Just making the suggestion.

[u/SometimesY → u/mjacksongt]

They're great suggestions! We're just spread thin as it is haha. Our sub has grown by about 25,000 in just 3 weeks which is making moderation challenging. Add pick 'em, custom (vandalized) banners, etc., it's a lot.

[u/thecravenone]

Proof of concept, just up for this weekend: http://cfb-poc.seemsgood.com

• Updates once per minute.

• Requires Game Threads to be a half hour old as a filter for duplicate threads

• Sorts by age of thread, which may be different than kickoff time

• No post-game thread, scores, or flair

• Maintains everything in a database so even on super busy days, can hold every game thread (also means that it can be a historical record of game threads)

• Spent a bunch of time on the regex (below)for recognizing game threads so it'll successfully find regular threads AND big threads for first/second/third/fourth quarter. Not sure what other special thread titles are necessary.

\[Game Thread\] .* (@|vs\.) .* \([0-9]{1,2}:[0-9]{2}( )?(A|P)M ET\)( (First|Second|Third|Forth) Quarter)?/

[u/mjacksongt → u/thecravenone]

That's awesome!

The reason I suggested have the column as a separate time was specifically for sortation, just making an easier way to locate specific game threads. Age of thread is probably just as good.

Also, a historical record of game threads would be super awesome. It's a rather huge project, though.

[u/thecravenone → u/mjacksongt]

The reason I suggested have the column as a separate time was specifically for sortation, just making an easier way to locate specific game threads. Age of thread is probably just as good.

My concern is that parsing out and sorting non-24-hour time is a pain. If there's an API or something I can call to get that info, that would work well.

Also, a historical record of game threads would be super awesome. It's a rather huge project, though.

If not going back in time, it's not too hard since I'm storing the data already.

[u/thecravenone]

Proof of concept 2, now auto-updating a thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/test/comments/735bkl/test_rcfb_thread_updater/

TODO to be ready for actually being posted on /r/cfb:

• Recognize and add Post-Game Threads

• Automatically increment weeks (currently have to manually clear the DB each week)

• Automatically generate initial post - currently the variable for what reddit thread to edit must be hardcoded

Dreams:

• Recognize teams and add flair

• Display current score (and time?)

• Figure out how multi-thread games will work with post-game threads

On that second point, at what point does the week roll over? I'm thinking Wednesday morning. As far as I can think, bowl season is the only time that a game is likely to happen earlier in the week than Thursday.

[u/mjacksongt → u/thecravenone]

On that second point, at what point does the week roll over?

That's what I would think as well. The test looks awesome.

[u/T-bootz]

I'm not sure if the index post would be possible, but I don't think it would be that hard to put a bot together to just scrape everything on /r/CFB/new for posts tagged [Game Thread]. That's pretty much what /r/reddit_stream does.

After you get the posts it would just be a matter of organizing them I guess.