Hello,
I have been moderating at utopian in the last couple of weeks. Due to huge growth in the project, we have been getting a lot of contributions daily.
We have a convention in our discord channel where we post contribution links on some cases.
If we start working on a contribution, we reserve it by posting to
#i-am-on-itchannel.If we approve a contribution, we remove the link at
#i-am-on-it, and add it to#accepted-postschannel.If we hide a post, we post it to
#hidden-postschannel.
Removing the manual work
I thought, at least that manual work on #accepted-posts and #hidden-posts could be removed by a discord bot.
I am fan of automating things.
Connecting discord channels with utopian API
Even though it's not documented well, Utopian has a web api which gives you useful data about the contributions which you can access approved contributions.
After researching a little bit about discord web hooks, I have managed to code a simple integration.
The bot currently posts accepted contributions to #accepted-posts-test channel. If it works well, we may switch to that automated posts instead of manual posting which will save moderators' time.
Related code is open source: @emre/utopian-accepted-post-hook.
It's also a simple example for discord webhook integrations.
Image sources: XKCD - Automation
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