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I can't see any reason why the bot did not post last night. There was no error, it just didn't do it. The only thing I can think of is that midnight is causing a problem, I will change the time to a couple of minutes after midnight and see if that works. Every test post I have done has worked as scheduled with no problems. Fingers crossed for third time lucky I guess.
Bot is cinderella confirmed.
The new wifi dongle arrived this morning, hopefully being able to connect directly instead of piggybacking off the phone will give it more confidence to stay out late and mingle.
Maybe get it to be a Lunchtime Bot for a couple of days as a warmup. Have it pop in at midday to say hello, then it can get to know people & find out we’re not too scary
Or maybe it still thinks it’s in Indonesia
You sure thats what you want? Next thing you know bots gonna bring another bot home for some fun, and you have to listen to awkward teenaged bot sex through the wall.
I've been seeing occasional odd behaviour on the server that seems to be database maintenance related. It happens sporadically throughout the day, with no pattern that I can see. When it happens, I've noticed a few brief periods of errors browsing the site. Its possible your bot has been unlucky and attempted to post during one of these times.
I'm hoping lemmy 0.18.1 will resolve this, I know there has been a lot of effort put into optimising database queries etc. If it doesn't, I'll dig into it further and raise a github issue with the lemmy devs.
For some reason it didn't even try to post, so it definitely wasn't an error from the server. It has been triggered to make the post at the right time for every single test post I have done, which is why I think there might be something specific about midnight that is causing some issues.
Oh ok no worries. FWIW I just witnessed the server side issue in the last 5 minutes. Received error pages etc.
Doesn't the instance restart every hour on the hour?
@[email protected] is that still the case?
No, that was stopped prior to the upgrade to 0.18, as it would have been contributing to federation issues.
not a timezone issue? thing was gonna trigger earlier than expected at 0000 utc vs utc+10?
No, it has the timezone in its programming and all the tests have triggered at the right time.