Wetfish Community Show & Tell - Request for Input

I'd like to make a chat bot that helps attract our user base to the monthly show and tell.  People are working on a lot of great projects and I have seen some really interesting stuff.  I originally thought about making a bot that would add a reminder to the topic on the day of (and remove it otherwise).  But I'd like to get some feedback from people. 

What are some features that you think would work to get those that have the time and motivation involved?

I would suggest making a module for fishy that adds new reminder commands for show & tell. https://github.com/wetfish/fishy-bot

You can make a fork of the fishy repo and run your own copy for development & testing. Then once the feature is working how you want, you can submit a pull request on GitHub. Once your PR is merged, the module can be run on fishy instead of your personal internet connection.

If a user says:

<user> !remind
<user> !remind show & tell
The bot should add them to a reminder list and respond by saying:

<fishy> Okay! The next Wetfish Show & Tell is on Monday, September 1st, 2025 at 6:30 pm mountain time (12:30 AM UTC). You will be reminded occasionally
Reminders should go out on the following schedule:

• 7 days before show & tell
• 24 hours before
• 12 hours before
• 1 hour before
• SHOW TIME

Development note:

It would be interesting to store the user input from the !remind command. In the previously mentioned example,

<user> !remind
<user> !remind show & tell
The bot should respond to anyone using the !remind command and for now save their name to the show & tell reminder list. But by storing the input string that users specify, it would allow us to keep track of different reminder schedules in the future. For example:

<user> !remind maintenance
Such that a user could be reminded automatically of wetfish maintenance updates

After thinking about it some more, I think the best option is just having a reminder for show and tell that says something like, "Wetfish Show and Tell is the First Monday of the Month at 630 Mountain Time".  No bot, no code, no problem.

After thinking about it some more, I think the best option is just having a reminder for show and tell that says something like, "Wetfish Show and Tell is the First Monday of the Month at 630 Mountain Time".  No bot, no code, no problem.

What the fuck is a reminder?

...that's literally the point of the bot. To remind people automatically

Quote from: Diabolizer on September 27, 2025, 02:03:09 pm

After thinking about it some more, I think the best option is just having a reminder for show and tell that says something like, "Wetfish Show and Tell is the First Monday of the Month at 630 Mountain Time".  No bot, no code, no problem.

What the fuck is a reminder?

...that's literally the point of the bot. To remind people automatically

Instead of a changing reminder in the topic, have a static one. 

Quote from: rachel on October 02, 2025, 11:50:58 pm

Quote from: Diabolizer on September 27, 2025, 02:03:09 pm

After thinking about it some more, I think the best option is just having a reminder for show and tell that says something like, "Wetfish Show and Tell is the First Monday of the Month at 630 Mountain Time".  No bot, no code, no problem.

What the fuck is a reminder?

...that's literally the point of the bot. To remind people automatically

Instead of a changing reminder in the topic, have a static one.

Nobody reads the topic. That won't remind anyone of anything. The point of the bot is to spam highlight people so they actually read it

I'd like to make a chat bot that helps attract our user base to the monthly show and tell.  People are working on a lot of great projects and I have seen some really interesting stuff.  I originally thought about making a bot that would add a reminder to the topic on the day of (and remove it otherwise).  But I'd like to get some feedback from people. 

What are some features that you think would work to get those that have the time and motivation involved?

Like notifications?