Greetings,

sometimes I want to read new comments on a particular post but I don’t want to check it every hour to see new comments. It would be nice if I can just say “!remind 5h” so that I get a reminder to checkout a specific post which would have new comments after 5 hour.

I am thinking about making it myself in Rust, but if there is already a bot here and I don’t know, please tell me.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      8 hours ago

      Huh, @-ing makes a lot of sense. I was about to tell the tale that the !remindme syntax is incredibly wasteful, because the bot needs to read every comment to be able to detect that. But yeah, just making it a mention instead resolves that very elegantly.

      • Zagorath
        8·
        11 hours ago

        Hey, if you did want to build this yourself, a handy feature the Reddit version has is that it replies to the comment confirming the reminder has been set, and includes a link to DM the bot prefilled with information to receive the same reminder. It saves dozens of people needing to make the same “remind me” comment.