Yeah… that Reddit get request would probably get shutdown by Reddit so quickly.

But hey, maybe it’s something to live with if it means this community’s activity improves…

Didn’t have to think twice to get Sync Ultra lifetime for the amazing value Sync has been in my life the past 10 years. Even paid for previous Sync for Reddit versions. Easy decision. Thanks LJ

Using a bot for a period of time to generate activity and then disabling once engagement is sustained, vs sticking to humans but have zero engagement… I think it’s pretty clear where the value is. Thanks for creating that bot :)

@RandomDude please!

Edit: another thought, given that this is the fediverse, nothing really prevents the creation of a community (in this instance or another) that has the bot, and experiment to see which approach is most effective.

Edit 2: I just realized, if it’s based on RSS, it won’t auto update if the past is deleted or marked as expired right?

Now B is a cause I can get behind…

Top 6 app behind X (still can’t get used to that stupid name) and before Facebook lite… not bad

This GitHub repo seems pretty straightforward enough to repurpose for bapcsalescanada purposes, to mirror r/bapcsalescanada posts to this community via it’s rss feeds…

I second this. As it currently stands, this community is already dead (last post before the two today was a month ago). And I like the mirroring of posts from r/bapcsalescanada since the source of posts is human in origin.

A quick GitHub search yielded this repo, which could probably be forked to mirror r/bapcsalescanada rss posts to this community. Unfortunately I don’t have the means to host this bot full time.

I’m not advocating for anyone to buy a price they’re not comfortable with, but personally I reasoned that, having used Sync for nearly 10 years, it would be like paying 10 bucks for each of those years for an app that I have used the most out of all the apps in my life

Sync was a huge part of my life (will continue to be), and I am happy to compensate for that.

That is AWESOME! Congrats!

Yes that’s right, portainer stacks equate to compose… I might be wrong, but I remember reading somewhere a while back that they (and other container orchestration tools) were not permitted to reference “Docker” or its products (including compose) due to legal and licensing restrictions by Docker.

Not to the level of Reddit, but Docker has its fair share of questionable business decisions.

Portainer is definitely useful (I use it on a daily basis), but probably a bad place to start…

I started with the following progression:

1. Docker CLI
2. Docker-Compose
3. Writing my own scripts to build and manage docker-compose configs (purely optional and skippable)
4. Portainer
5. Purely optional, but in a professional setting, kubernetes and various container orchestration tools.

Good luck in your journey!

I took a look at Dashy, I think I see the confusion. If you are looking at this article, then yes they mention Code Server, but that’s purely in the context of using Dashy in a non-docker context. But to be honest, any text editor works.

But I think that’s a red herring. That in itself has nothing to do with docker.

What you’ll need to do, once you understand the fundamentals of running docker, pull images, start a container based on an imagine, is to expose a docker volume that points to /public/conf.yaml. A docker volume ensures that the file or directory it’s mapped to in the container is available and persists outside of the container. This allows you to persist files and directories without losing them once the container stops or restarts.

Once the volume is exposed, then you can use your favorite text editor to update the dashy config file. Code Server is fine, powerful, but overkill.

But first, try getting familiar with pulling, starting stopping docker images using the cli. Gotta start there first before tinkering with docker parameters like volumes.

Given the sheer amount of data on Reddit, this is really not feasible nor scalable, nor is a long term solution. A simple CloudFlare configuration will quickly put an end to such a solution.

RSS exists, however only allows you to subscribe to subreddit posts, not comments.

This is why the API changes are such a big deal.