Hi
I requested a Live thread for the upcoming Canada world cup match by pinging the live thread bot in the crossposted thread.
The bot didn't respond. I am unsure if the bot is broken or my syntax was wrong. Could you do a check?
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2026
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Bot doesn't seem to be responding. Not sure who to contact about it. Maybe @Blaze@sopuli.xyz would know.
I pinged the owner of the bot and here is the answer
Interesting. Thanks!
Thank you
@livethreadbot@sopuli.xyz -football USA - Paraguay
That 'v' in your request won't work. See the format guide in the OP.
@LiveThreadBot@sopuli.xyz -football USA - Paraguay
do edits retrigger the bot or does it have to be a net new top-level comment (I see you posted one so I won't retrigger it again but for future reference)?
Edits doesn't trigger the bot again (the same way it won't ping a mentioned user on lemmy if you edit a comment they are mentioned in). The bot check for replies/mentions every 60 seconds, so you have on average 30 seconds to edit your comment (not taking into account federation complexity) before the bot parses the message and marks the comment as read.
I honestly don't know. However it appears that the bot isn't working.
@LiveThreadBot@sopuli.xyz -football Argentina - Algeria
Request added to the live queue, the Live Thread will be posted ~16min before kick-off.
@c0dezer0@programming.dev @remington@beehaw.org @CombatWombat@feddit.online
Bot is online. ESPN has implemented cloudflare/captcha protection to block bot activity, the current workaround is of degraded performance and slightly more fragile than directly querying data from ESPN. Bot update still work-in-progress, it should work fine for the most part. Check the Norway - Iraq post for current format.
Thanks!
Unknown request, please reply with -help for a list of available commands.
Reason given: Unknown command: iraq.
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'No live game found, wrong team names?'
Instruction given:
Football Live Thread
Post to: football@sopuli.xyz
Home team: Usa
Away Team: Australia
Please verify the team names and maybe check https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard for your requested game.
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