user_pinger VS user_pinger_2

Here's the source code.

Here is the commit specifically. This disables a feature I implemented where deleted or suspended accounts would get pruned. Unfortunately, in some weird cases where Reddit was having trouble, this resulted in active accounts getting deleted. I disabled this feature a while back but never got around to committing it until now - sorry about that

The script or whatever that does it is open source. Not sure if any other subs use it. https://github.com/neoliberal/user_pinger

Yeah, they can find the code here: https://github.com/neoliberal/user_pinger

No, but it's on the to-do list.

I just wanted to make sure you saw this commit I recently made. It disables a feature I had previously added to prune deleted/suspended accounts. Unfortunately, in some cases, this feature seems to misbehave and prune active accounts. I am not sure why this happens or how to fix it, so I commented it out in this commit. I think you'll want to do the same

I wanted to do it, I was ready to do it. Jenbanim said no because he wanted to a rewrite or something and I lost interest. You can do it yourself but you still need Jenbanim's approval.

The ping digest idea is closely related to another idea I had for tracking group activity, so I've added it as a comment here

I think I could significantly speed up User Pinger by using async PRAW to send all the ping messages concurrently but I don't really understand how to embed an asynchronous task within a larger synchronous function

Yeah, in this case probably the only reason I didn't get hacked was because the example config file I have publicly online doesn't include the mistake I made

It was the result of people saying that they had a difficult time clicking on the links before. I can change it any time, because now the bot uses proper text templating 😌

That's what I'm thinking. I already have the API grabbing data from Reddit to determine whether someone is a mod, so it wouldn't be much additional work to return the comments of a thread as a JSON object

For user_pinger_2 I define a list of "recoverable errors" and have the bot run in a while True loop that restarts if it throws one of those. See the bottom of this file. Those are Reddit-side errors, but you could presumably add specific client side ones if you know which are safe

The code is available on GitHub here https://github.com/neoliberal/user_pinger_2/