Blue Bots, Done Quick!
Information and updates about Blue Bots, Done Quick! - a free tool that allows you to easily build your own Bluesky bot using Tracery code.
Make your own at https://bluebotsdonequick.com!
(Created by @olafmoriarty.no)
- Six months later, there are more than 800 active bots (+ 200 inactive ones), with a total follower count of 230.000. (If we exclude the two huge outliers that are mostly non-bot-accounts, we're at 92.000 followers. Which is, you know, still *fantastic*.) This is why your bot is slow sometimes.
- If you're wondering what BBDQ has in store for the future, I tend to jot down a lot of the things I really want to do with the website on the project's GitHub repository: github.com/olafmoriarty... Suggestions and feedback are welcome there, too (and here, of course).
- Okay, I am SO implementing this in BBDQ one day.
- And the MVP of all my bots is a github project called corpora, which creates public domain word lists for things like bots. I trim these down for relevance and use them for starting points for various lists. The vegetables one was particularly valuable this time. github.com/dariusk/corp...
- Testing something: Posting order, which basically controls the accuracy of your posting frequency, is now sorted by posting frequency, meaning weekly or daily bots will be more accurate than hourly or ten-minutely bots. Bots with many followers will also be more accurate than bots with few.
- Okay, I think most of the bugs surrounding last weekend's outage are gone now. Let me know if you have one I haven't fixed. The big issue still present is that the bsky connection is *slow* now. Posting a single post takes roughly five seconds, more if it has images, so 100 posts take >8 minutes.
- Kinda pondering just how unpopular it would be if I removed the "post every 10 minutes" option so that twice an hour was the most frequent posting option. There's currently 70+ active bots using it, so changing them to every 30 minutes COULD reduce traffic and speed up the site quite significantly.
- Ping @uni-strategic-bot.bsky.social @redlinecrooksquote.bsky.social @ai-fearz.bsky.social @holaveracruz.bsky.social @holy-mountain.bsky.social: If you are experiencing issues with your bots not posting to bluesky, this COULD be the reason and a possible solution.
- Looks like the bots are back in town 👀 There were approximately eighty bots that couldn't be authenticated with bsky because of wrong passwords or account takedowns. I took the liberty of deactivating those. Creating NEW bots still doesn't work, but I have a plan for how to fix it. But not today.
- Okay, the fix seems to work well for the thirteen bots I have updated manually so far. I'll aim to set up a system to update the remaining 1034 bots over the next couple of days and auto-update new bots, which should return everything to normal. When all of that is done, I'll reactivate the Patreon
