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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    39 months ago

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

  • Nix
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    39 months ago

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

    • Rikudou_SageOPA
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      29 months 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.

  • @wiki_me@lemmy.ml
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    29 months ago

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

    • Rikudou_SageOPA
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      29 months ago

      Well, it still schedules stuff.

      • @wiki_me@lemmy.ml
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        29 months 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.

        • Rikudou_SageOPA
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          19 months 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.

          • @wiki_me@lemmy.ml
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            29 months 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.