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Chew / MLB-GameFeed-Bot

Discord bot to show live game feeds and statistics of MLB games to a Discord channel. Used by over 1200 servers!
https://discord.com/application-directory/987144502374436895
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Open AlecM33 opened 3 months ago

AlecM33 commented 3 months ago

Hello my friend! Nice job with this project. 1100 servers is impressive scale!

I've been working on a similar project of my own over at https://github.com/AlecM33/mlb-gameday-bot.

Comparing the two, they definitely mirror each other a lot in the gameday live feed aspect, but their design approaches differ somewhat. My bot is meant to be configured for a specific team from the outset, and a particular instance isn't really meant to scale to a bunch of servers. I just wanted to make it known to you in case you find any parts of my project useful for your own ends. For example, I notice you have open issues that seek to have a server follow a specific team, or to allow the bot to report games every day without the overhead of having to subscribe to each individual game. My bot does those things, but at the expense of scale, obviously. Maybe there's a middle ground.

Cheers! Feel free to close this issue.

Chew commented 3 months ago

Thank you for reaching out!

You have a lot of good stuff on your bot too. I think I could add a /gameinfo command to see info for the current game (or select one from the day) to view all that info.

I am wanting what I've seen some bots do and add a way to set a team and a channel and it posts the plangame embed every day. That's been requested by a lot of people, I just need to do it.

I think I remember seeing another bot whose concept was a lot of stuff for one server instead of some stuff for any server. Mine tries to be team agnostic so it can run on many different servers, like the Orioles, Rangers, and Royals all use it.

I'll happily credit you for some of the ideas and stuff you use. I spent most of the past 2 years sorta making whatever the server I talk in most wanted, and whoever suggested things. I've really only gotten into baseball in the past 2 years, I've been asking my dad (a lifelong baseball fan) what information is most useful to people. So, I always appreciate feedback from everyone :)

I'll leave this open for a bit so I don't forget about this, I've been busy for a bit and I occasionally check the issues to jog my memory of what I should be doing.

AlecM33 commented 3 months ago

No problem! Let me know if I can help in any way. I did a similar thing during development - my only immediate intent was to run it in the Guardians server, so I just consulted with them + my friends to figure out what they wanted. I definitely see the benefits to being team agnostic, even though that wasn't my personal goal

Chew commented 3 months ago

Started making a unified /gameinfo command in #25.

I tried to use your idea of using an image to make the boxscore cus it looks terrible on mobile. I went with the "make the image myself" route, which turns out to be very annoying having to re-create all the data.

Also credited you for the idea in the GameInfoCommand file :)

AlecM33 commented 3 months ago

Nice! Yes, mobile devices were a headache from the beginning for any kind of tables. Props for going the route of drawing the image yourself.