I wish it was a lot more active, I know I have to give it time for users to start using this community. The subreddit is one of the few I still check on reddit to get local news and local stuff.
Be the change you want to be. Start posting content that you want to see!
Ooh! that’s a nice instance name, you loonatic
Contribute and it’ll be more active. Every now and then I’ll post an interesting article and comment on others. If everyone did, we could have a really active community.
It’s become slightly more active in the last weeks. Give it time. With what Reddit’s doing to its users I think eventually more will migrate here.
Can someone more talented than me set up a bot to automatically post local CBC articles here?
CBC doesn’t seem to have a feed for just Vancouver news.
It might be a bit of overload just pulling things from the BC feed and dumping that here: https://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada-britishcolumbia.xml
There’s a cbcvancouver instagram profile, at least. It frequently posts about non-vancouver stuff though.
I probably could, there are Github repos with code to do exactly that, but I don’t know if it’s against the community or anything.
Could probably set up a Bot to post local articles and whatnot from multiple sources.
I think there’d have to be some manual review or something for high value posts. If everything local gets posted it’ll just start to feel like spam with no interaction.
I probably could, there are Github repos with code to do exactly that, but I don’t know if it’s against the community or anything.
Could probably set up a Bot to post local articles and whatnot from multiple sources.
Just found you today. I’ll be on the lookout for local content to share and comments to make.
Vancouver has a reputation of “no fun city”, so why should it be any different here? /s