!trendingcommunities@lemmy.cafe - Trending Communities Bot 2 - The spiritual successor

Hi everyone!

So as some of you might know the original TCB was active until the summer of last year when the creator decided to shelve it.

It was a neat bot that many on the Threadiverse liked (including myself) because it really helped surface little and niche comms

It worked by calculating 2 metrics for every comm (based on the data provided by Lemmyverse.net), Daily Active Users and Subscribers gained across a 7 day average and listed the top 10 or so for each category (while excluding large comms that have no problems gaining subscribers and active users, check the sidebar for specifics on what's being excluded)

I rebuilt it in the same spirit (As best I could anyways, based on what I was able to infer by past posts, the 0g bot code was never released) and I'm having it post at !trendingcommunities@lemmy.cafe each day between 9 and 9:30 PM UTC the days trending communities (final posting time depends on processing time)

I've been watching it for some months (It was absolutely a carefully planned observation to, not me forgetting it was running until I saw it's post thankful it was posting reliably LMAO) to make sure it was doing good autonomously before announcing and it's been decent for some time now, still some things to iron out like why it's still doing decimals when it's supposed to be rounding lol, but the important stuff is settled.

So come on down and subscribe to see what's trending on the Threadiverse everyday!

I'm open to suggestions too!

I know some of you who noticed it operating have been asking about PieFed support and it's really dependent on the data of @tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net awsome Lemmyverse.net, but the PF datasets don't seem to be available on the data tab as of yet. But as far as I can tell, all the same metrics (that TCB needs anyways) are collected already, so I'll update support for it if/when it's available.