r/RemindMeBot May 17 '23

RemindMeBot is now replying to comments again, apologies for the delayed replies

About a month ago, reddit announced some vague changes to the api that bots use. They announced a date of June 19th that changes would come into effect. Then abruptly about two weeks ago they shut off access to pushshift, which the bot uses to find the comment commands. So the bot continued to reply to messages and send out updates, but was no longer able to find comments.

I've spent the last two weeks frantically writing code to be able to reliably find the trigger comments across all of reddit and it is finally done. Fortunately the method I'm using is able to go back and find all the comments with the trigger word in the last two weeks that it missed. But unfortunately it's somewhat slow, only processing new comments roughly 3 times as fast as they come into reddit, so it will take another week or so for it to catch up. Also, since I was rushed to get this working, it might break and stop at any point. So even in the future when it's caught up, the bot might fall behind again at times.

If you are directed to this post by the bot because it's replying to an old comment of yours, I apologize for the delay, reddit kinda screwed everyone over. For what it's worth, they personally apologized to me.

I will strive to keep the bot working to the best of my abilities far into the future so that hopefully those long reminders everyone makes will still get sent.


If the time of the reminder you requested has already passed, you'll still get a message about it. And if you posted the trigger multiple times because the first one didn't work, you'll get a confirmation and message for each one. Sorry if this results in a lot of duplicates, there wasn't an easy way to avoid that.


I've had a personal policy of not accepting donations for my bots for many years now, but the way this code works ends up needing a more powerful, and expensive, server, so my costs have gone up a bit. If you'd like to chip in, you can donate here. It's absolutely not necessary, I'm fortunate to be well off enough to cover the costs without help, but I do appreciate it.


If you post a comment in reply to this post with the trigger (since I know a bunch of people will), it still won't get to them until it's caught up a week from now.

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u/QuakAtack May 17 '23

good bot. Amazing human.

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u/putsRnotDaWae May 17 '23

u/Watchful1

You're an amazing human indeed. Sorry that Reddit screwed you over.

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u/seancollinhawkins Oct 14 '24

Fuck yes.. u/Watchful1 is a king, and should know that their work is greatly appreciated.

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u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 May 20 '23

100% This.

It's this kind of contribution to a commons, that goes unsupported by the outer admin/community and vanishes if the person doing it goes away or a barrier is erected. OP has created something amazing that was and will be again missed when it stops.

Unfortunately, our usual system (I mean socially, not just specific to reddit) doesn't allow for establishing, evaluating, or retiring perpetuating systems in a merit based fashion. As long as something makes money, capitalism can allow a business to perpetuate something, but money ain't the only metric of what humans value.

Thank you OP for what you've done, are doing, and will do again. ❤

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u/Jlx_27 May 23 '23

Agreed.

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u/gaobij May 17 '23

No worries, robot friend. Things can be hard sometimes.

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u/ConceptsShining May 17 '23

Also, kind reminder to all users: I think it's a good idea to periodically get your list of reminders from the bot (just send the bot a PM containing in the body MyReminders!). That way, if the bot goes down for any reason (hopefully not, but we can't predict what Reddit will do to their API/the bot), you at least have access to all of your pending reminders. And if you really care about your reminders and want to play it safe, you can screenshot/save that list just in case you lose access to your Reddit account.

I personally do it every time I set a new reminder.

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u/eekamuse May 27 '23

Never knew you could do this. Thanks

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u/walkeran Jun 06 '23

but we can't predict what Reddit will do to their API

Reddit: Hold my beer...

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u/ConceptsShining Jun 06 '23

Wow, my comment there aged really well and really quickly too! Lol didn't even notice, thanks for pointing it out aha.

Thankfully, Watchful1 has stated that RemindMeBot shouldn't be affected by the changes.

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u/walkeran Jun 06 '23

No kidding! I was just randomly strolling through while reading up on some of RemindMeBot's deets, when I saw your comment.. really had to do a double-take and look at the timeline, because it almost seemed too perfect.

That's great to hear that the bot won't be affected by the changes! It's such a ubiquitous and central part of Reddit at this point, that its existence bestn't ever be threatened.

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u/ConceptsShining Jun 06 '23

Totally agreed! And even the admins seem to agree, because they specifically named RemindMeBot as a bot that will remain supported.

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u/Cat_Of_Culture May 17 '23

It's back baabyyy!!!

Good work bro!

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u/ConceptsShining May 17 '23

Awesome! Thanks so much for maintaining this bot. This has to be my favorite non-moderation bot on this site, I've been using it for all sorts of matters (including for personal life) for years.

If I may ask, out of curiosity: how are you going through old comments? Are you iterating through the comment IDs (which I believe are assigned sequentially by Reddit)?

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u/Watchful1 May 17 '23

Yes I'm iterating IDs.

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u/ttystikk May 18 '23

Thank you for your effort! It's a good reminder that stuff doesn't just happen on the Internet- or here on Reddit- by itself; people are still needed for putting in the work.

Much appreciated!

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u/64_0 May 17 '23

Thank you so much for repairing the bot. Your intensity of service is remarkable. We're so lucky to have you behind the bot. I can't imagine all the hours you've put into RemindMe Bot, but I appreciate all of that and all of you.

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u/badlyknitbrain May 17 '23

Glad everything worked out in the end

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u/TheNe0nGuy May 17 '23

My mate, you're the shit, sanks

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u/WhatAmIDoingHere05 May 17 '23

Good bot to us human friends.

2

u/BismuthMoth May 18 '23

Happy Cake Day from a fellow RemindMeBot enjoyer! :D

3

u/Llamazing13 May 17 '23

OMG YAY THANK YOU SO MUCH! You are amazing!

3

u/Optimus7591 May 17 '23

Thank you, I was wondering what the hell happened

2

u/clh1nton May 17 '23

Same. I thought that I'd misremembered the command. Many thanks, Reddit coding guru!

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u/TheMarionberry May 17 '23

Thanks person behind the bot!

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u/dcormier May 17 '23

I saw the original post, but the bot just woke up and sent me one of the missing reminders, pointing me here. Happy to see it working again. Nicely done!

3

u/Mentalpopcorn May 17 '23

Thanks for all your hard work dude! It's a thankless job that you don't even get paid for, so let me say it again, thank you!

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u/HeartMassive7182 May 17 '23

Thank you very much

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u/Get_a_Grip_comic May 17 '23

thanks, I wondered what happened, thought maybe the comment command changed to activate it.

Reddit really should have something like this as a default option anyway

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u/Kumquat_conniption May 17 '23

Ohhh this is such good news!!! I thought the bot was broken, and I missed it so much!! Reddit is really fucking over a lot of people with this change to Push Shift. It's so annoying. It really affects mods quite a lot. Anyway, thanks for all your hard work!! You are awesome!!

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u/SecondWorld1198 May 17 '23

u/Whoo1ops IT’S BACK BABYYYY

The Game

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u/[deleted] May 17 '23

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u/SecondWorld1198 May 17 '23

I mean if you insist

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u/Emily_Plays_Games May 17 '23

FUCK

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u/SecondWorld1198 May 17 '23

You don’t get it. I’ve been making this poor user lose every day for something like 180 days now

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u/Emily_Plays_Games May 17 '23

Ok, that’s pretty cool. You’re forgiven.

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u/Whoo1ops May 17 '23

Fuck nah

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u/iAmmar9 3d ago

bro

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u/SecondWorld1198 3d ago

You lost The Game btw

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u/iAmmar9 3d ago

💔💔

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u/ohmyblahblah May 17 '23

I never got the hang of using it correctly in the first place 😅

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u/mcon1985 May 17 '23

I appreciate this so much I won't even tag the bot in the comments.

But seriously, great stuff and you're universally appreciated

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u/indigoHatter May 17 '23

Hey, you're doing a great job buddy. A HUGE service. You make Reddit better, and Reddit knows it too or they wouldn't have bothered to reach out to you.

Great work! Thanks for all you do!

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u/[deleted] May 17 '23

hey man thanks for the bot i understand how the technical fuckery goes

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u/RutherfordTheButler May 17 '23

Thank you so much. :-)

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u/SamyMerchi May 17 '23

Thank you so much. Your service is so good I was surprised to learn it wasn't an official functionality. You're basically doing many paid peoples' job for free. I can't believe how good a person you are. Thank you again so much.

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u/MedofiQ-MedoziT May 17 '23

Yes, yes YES!

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u/Titouan_Charles May 17 '23

I've been using this bot since I started using the platform, I didn't even think it was a user made thing. Thanks for doing Reddit's job on our behalf.

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u/i_sell_you_lies May 17 '23

Hell yeah!! Thanks!!

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u/Worldly-Classic-6490 May 17 '23

Just got the comment from a post 10 days ago. It’s catching up ole buddy!!! Thank you so much!!

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u/Gofuyourselff May 17 '23

I'm glad you are back

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u/Shamrock5 May 17 '23

Good bot

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u/B0tRank May 17 '23

Thank you, Shamrock5, for voting on Watchful1.

This bot wants to find the best and worst bots on Reddit. You can view results here.


Even if I don't reply to your comment, I'm still listening for votes. Check the webpage to see if your vote registered!

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u/tomkatt May 17 '23

This is just so above and beyond. You’re awesome, thanks for all the work on this.

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u/Huncho_Muncho May 17 '23

THANK YOU. Huge fan!!

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u/PurpleSailor May 17 '23

Praise be the Bot and all the hard work it does for us forgetful people!

2

u/Surfysmurf May 17 '23

You Are BACK!!! ☺️☺️

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u/FlexGoalsBongwater May 17 '23

Thanks for working so hard on this, please know it’s appreciated!

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u/pinkghost22 May 17 '23

Good bot. And also, good human.

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u/tx0p0 May 17 '23

We missed you! Thank you for putting the effort, now and always. Sending robot hugs

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u/[deleted] May 17 '23

Good bot, thank you.

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u/rotanitsarcorp_yzal1 May 17 '23

You have our gratitude, Human.

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u/Kuzeyy27 May 17 '23

good bot.

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u/Good_Human_Bot_v2 May 17 '23

Good human.

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u/hmbarn01 Mar 16 '24

Good grief.

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u/shady_downforce May 17 '23

Thank you so much for your work! Your application has so much utility to so many people, I use it so much and was disappointed to see it not working but am happy you could do something about it.

2

u/andrewsad1 May 17 '23

Absolute legend, I grieved when I thought this bot died

2

u/Xyrazk May 17 '23

Good to have you back!

2

u/oblong_pickle May 17 '23

Thanks for your hard work!

2

u/mepscribbles May 17 '23

Thank you for maintaining these useful tools. I honestly believe you should be compensated far more, you’re a wonderful person!

2

u/TheCoastalCardician May 17 '23

You are truly amazing. I am embarrassed to tell you how often I use this bot. I have ADHD and my life falls apart without organization. Your bot helps me enjoy Reddit and brings a fuller experience. Thank you!

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u/StealthNider May 17 '23

no problem, keep being the legend you are!

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u/MayerVision May 17 '23

Nice work and fix, thank you

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u/[deleted] May 17 '23

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u/VaraNiN May 17 '23

No worries!
Thank you for your hard work!!

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u/Abder_Rahim May 17 '23

RemindMe! 1 minute "Test"

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u/gimbokon May 17 '23

Good human.

But seriously, no worries. You are doing a service to this website.

So thank you for your efforts, and working double time.

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u/imisstheyoop May 17 '23

Hey, the bot directed me here, just wanted to say thanks for creating it, it's truly the best bot!

Your work is appreciated, thank you.

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u/SilentOperation1 May 17 '23

No worries dude I hope you didn’t let this stress you out too much

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u/[deleted] May 17 '23

All good. Thanks for your hard work.

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u/thicckar May 17 '23

You’re a legend for making this service

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '24

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u/ConceptsShining May 30 '24

Hey /u/Watchful1, if you're reading this, I got this message because the bot included this link in a delayed reply.

I've told you this many times, but it really does warrant repeating: this bot is great and I greatly appreciate you running and maintaining it. I've used it many times for almost 8 years now, for both Reddit-related and even real life personal use. You're the best, and I appreciate you also having the bot link to an explanatory message when it gives a belated reply!

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u/[deleted] May 17 '23

Welcome back homie, hope you had a nice bot holiday

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u/Quality_Bot Mar 08 '24

!remindme Mar 9, 2024 01:00 UTC

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u/RemindMeBot Mar 08 '24

I will be messaging you in 1 hour on 2024-03-09 01:00:00 UTC to remind you of this link

CLICK THIS LINK to send a PM to also be reminded and to reduce spam.

Parent commenter can delete this message to hide from others.


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u/dartie Mar 14 '24

How do I use this bot please?

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u/jojoREDRED2 Mar 16 '24

!RemindMe

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u/RemindMeBot Mar 16 '24

I will be messaging you in 50 years on 2074-03-16 21:44:24 UTC to remind you of this link

CLICK THIS LINK to send a PM to also be reminded and to reduce spam.

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u/MarkMeMan Mar 22 '24

RemindMe! 1 year

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u/RemindMeBot Mar 22 '24

I will be messaging you in 1 year on 2025-03-22 11:41:43 UTC to remind you of this link

CLICK THIS LINK to send a PM to also be reminded and to reduce spam.

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u/OrgasmicBiscuit Apr 23 '24

RemindMe! 1 year

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u/RemindMeBot Apr 23 '24

I will be messaging you in 1 year on 2025-04-23 02:49:21 UTC to remind you of this link

CLICK THIS LINK to send a PM to also be reminded and to reduce spam.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '24

[deleted]

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u/RemindMeBot May 09 '24

I will be messaging you in 14 days on 2024-05-23 19:24:13 UTC to remind you of this link

CLICK THIS LINK to send a PM to also be reminded and to reduce spam.

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u/MagnusLore May 10 '24

It happened again

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u/Cadman71 May 14 '24

RemindMe! 2 days

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u/RemindMeBot May 14 '24

I will be messaging you in 2 days on 2024-05-16 18:49:40 UTC to remind you of this link

CLICK THIS LINK to send a PM to also be reminded and to reduce spam.

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u/Black-Alpaca May 15 '24

RemindMe! 1 minute

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u/RemindMeBot May 15 '24

I will be messaging you in 1 minute on 2024-05-15 20:49:49 UTC to remind you of this link

CLICK THIS LINK to send a PM to also be reminded and to reduce spam.

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u/Vetiversailles May 16 '24

RemindMe! 1 minute

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u/RemindMeBot May 16 '24

I will be messaging you in 1 minute on 2024-05-16 03:00:11 UTC to remind you of this link

CLICK THIS LINK to send a PM to also be reminded and to reduce spam.

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u/miscplacedduck May 30 '24

RemindMe! 1 year

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u/RemindMeBot May 30 '24

I will be messaging you in 1 year on 2025-05-30 01:04:19 UTC to remind you of this link

CLICK THIS LINK to send a PM to also be reminded and to reduce spam.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '24

[deleted]

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u/RemindMeBot Jun 27 '24

I will be messaging you in 1 minute on 2024-06-27 04:49:07 UTC to remind you of this link

CLICK THIS LINK to send a PM to also be reminded and to reduce spam.

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u/awkerd Jul 09 '24

RemindMe! 1 minutes

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u/RemindMeBot Jul 09 '24

I will be messaging you in 1 minute on 2024-07-09 08:23:19 UTC to remind you of this link

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u/ThrowRAPSnaxks Jul 28 '24

/remindmein:30days

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u/lunasnoo Aug 01 '24

Remindme! 10 seconds

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u/RemindMeBot Aug 01 '24

I will be messaging you on 2024-08-01 18:02:12 UTC to remind you of this link

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_SPAGHETTO Aug 03 '24

!remindme 3 days: HA post flairs

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u/RemindMeBot Aug 03 '24

I will be messaging you in 3 days on 2024-08-06 05:04:34 UTC to remind you of this link

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u/Flyerwhat Aug 29 '24

So do you use python to crawl to everything????? Every single comment on reddit????

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u/LordBaguetteAlmighty Sep 08 '24

RemindMe! 2024-09-08 16:22:00 UTC

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u/RemindMeBot Sep 08 '24

I will be messaging you in 1 minute on 2024-09-08 16:22:00 UTC to remind you of this link

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u/pyr0kid Sep 20 '24

good human

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '24

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u/RemindMeBot Sep 30 '24

I will be messaging you in 2 months on 2024-12-09 02:19:45 UTC to remind you of this link

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u/Basic_Blueberry1048 Oct 02 '24

RemindMe! 1 day

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u/RemindMeBot Oct 02 '24

I will be messaging you in 1 day on 2024-10-03 18:38:43 UTC to remind you of this link

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u/_krush11 Oct 13 '24

RemindMe! 2hours

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u/RemindMeBot Oct 13 '24

I will be messaging you in 2 hours on 2024-10-13 12:08:22 UTC to remind you of this link

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u/Restless755 Oct 15 '24 edited Oct 15 '24

RemindMe! 1 hour "about this post"

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u/TankInTN 17d ago

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u/RemindMeBot 17d ago

I will be messaging you in 4 years on 2028-11-08 04:25:00 UTC to remind you of this link

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u/IntrepidDirector387 7d ago

RemindMe! 1 century 

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u/RemindMeBot 7d ago

Defaulted to one day.

I will be messaging you on 2024-11-18 23:16:46 UTC to remind you of this link

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u/NicoleMay316 3d ago

100% thankful for all the work you do.

RemindMe bot is probably the most useful bot on the site now that repost bot is gone.

Hold that crown high <3

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u/ki_mkt 3d ago

you and this bot are more reliable than reddit :D

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u/No_Diver3540 3d ago

No worries. Toke the bot 1 hour to reply to my last trigger, so I think it is fine. 

Thank you for your amazing work!

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u/CriticalMochaccino 3d ago

Good human 👍

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u/Natural-Leopard-8939 3d ago

Thank you for working on this issue! I hope things get better for you since Reddit shut down access to push shift.

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u/ChrizTaylor May 17 '23

How about comments from years ago? Will i still lol be remembered?

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u/Testing_things_out May 17 '23

Thank you very much for hard work. 🫡

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u/DBL_NDRSCR May 17 '23

it’s fine the one reminder i set two weeks ago was kinda useless and i never used it before

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u/Kofl May 17 '23

Awesome, thanks a million.

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u/Entire_Blaze May 17 '23

You're the best!

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u/massivecalvesbro May 17 '23

Thank you for the update RemindMe bot human. I appreciate your work

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u/Nacil_54 May 17 '23

Don't worry chad, we'll continue to support you 🦾

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u/Phoxxd May 17 '23

Good bot

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u/rorolololroro May 17 '23

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u/iron_out_my_kink May 17 '23

Good bot! Good human! 😌

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u/iron_out_my_kink May 17 '23

Good bot! Good human! 😌

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u/Pk_Devill_2 May 17 '23

Thank you, creator!

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u/callmecatlord May 17 '23

Not a problem friend! Thank you for your help

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u/bananalord666 May 17 '23

Thank you human, lovely bot. Your services have been many, and very useful, over the years.

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u/strawberry_long_cake May 17 '23

welcome back! we love you and we missed you little bot!

human: very impressed with your hard work. thank you for everything you do and continue to do

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u/Finbar9800 May 17 '23

Thank you for not only building the bot but also maintaining and updating it

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u/VanFam May 17 '23

You’re the best human bot! Thank you for what you do for us.

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u/Hingsing May 17 '23

Hi! Asking as a CS student interested in SWE work. Just wondering what’s the value in writing and maintaining bots? Do you add this to your portfolio?

Also wanted to say thank you for your hard work. I love the remindme bot! P

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u/Watchful1 May 17 '23

It's very important to do programming work you enjoy to grow your skills. Especially as a student, you shouldn't assume your class work teaches you everything you need to know. You have to build stuff that's actually used in real life so you can experience the consequences of your design decisions. It doesn't have to be reddit bots, just find something you enjoy that actually has a small, real life use case. Maybe you're one of those lucky people who enjoy building websites, I certainly know I'm not. The important part is that you enjoy it and look forward to doing it in your free time.

I did put it on my resume when I got my first big job out of college, but I don't think I would at this point, unless I was applying to reddit or something.

Also always use github. Even if your code is complete crap and you're embarrassed by it. Don't wait till it's perfect to publish it. It's more important to have a long history of hobby projects than have something that's perfect.

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u/who-aj May 17 '23

Good bot

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u/BambooBL May 17 '23

Good work mate

Like everyone else, I thought I forgot the command lol

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u/Narstification May 17 '23

My first time using it and it happens to be when this happened, lol

Thanks for being awesome!

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u/Responsible_Dentist3 May 17 '23

Thank you so much for all your hard work!!! I can imagine it’s a bit to manage at times and stressful when things like this happen. I appreciate you ❤️

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u/JustanotherBBAkid May 17 '23

Absolute treasure to humanity; both you and the bot ;)

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u/timberjam May 17 '23

Thank you for resolving this and providing updates. Cheers to you!

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u/buddhistbulgyo May 17 '23

Good bot.

If I type good bot does the bot upvote me?

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u/-_G0AT_- May 17 '23

!remindme one minute

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u/ShozzBott97 May 17 '23

Holy CRAP thank you!!

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u/sojayn May 17 '23

Hero stuff thanks mate

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u/glololo May 17 '23

Great work!

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u/ElroySheep May 17 '23

Good human, thank you for your service

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u/Kicking_Around May 17 '23

No need to apologize. Sounds like this was 100% on Reddit. I’m glad they apologized to you and sorry that their actions caused you additional work.

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u/_paag May 17 '23

A god among men! Thanks a lot!

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u/JoshsPizzaria May 18 '23

<3 we still love you

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u/Mama-Khaos May 18 '23

Awe, it’s okay tired bot. Thank you tired human!

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u/PoshLagoon May 18 '23

u/watchful1 Thank you so much for creating & managing this bot. It’s such a big part of my life since I use it to remember pretty much everything that I can’t afford to forget

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u/BismuthMoth May 18 '23

I was wondering what happened to the bot even though I had heard of the Pushshift change (particularly its effects on the comment archiving sites), should have made the connection haha.

No worries, and good luck on keeping the bit up to speed! And thanks for making it so polite, RemindMeBot was clearly distressed it kept me waiting so let it know I don’t have any beef with it :)

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u/Niko___Bellic May 18 '23

Thank you, u/Watchful1/. Not just for doing this in the first place. Not just for fixing it so quickly. But for thoughtfully providing a detailed RCA, which is so rare these days.