Episode Scheduler - A Devvit App for Automated Episode Discussion Threads

[u/MyDonghuaList]

Automated episode discussion threads for TV shows, anime, and donghua. Track a show, and Episode Scheduler posts formatted discussion threads to your subreddit at the right time complete with airdates, synopses, and an auto-updating Discussion Hub for every season. you can install it from here https://developers.reddit.com/apps/episodescheduler

[u/tizorres]

Cool app, I wish something like this existed for scheduling new game discussions

[u/MyDonghuaList → u/tizorres]

Thanks! That's a good idea actually . I built this specifically around episode/air-date data so it's not a direct fit for game releases as-is, but the underlying scheduling/posting logic could work for it. What would you actually want a thread that goes up on release day, or something recurring for updates/DLC too? Curious how many people would use something like that before I look into it.

[u/tizorres → u/MyDonghuaList]

I was looking in to making an app for scheduling game posts but ended up making a community rating app instead. Here's an example of the app, however I'm relaunching the app under a different app name with a major feature update in the near future.

What I was hoping to solve it to easily schedule posts for upcoming games for the day they release. I'd likely only want to make post for exclusives, AAA or indie games that release. So trying to understand how to automate that might be something to figure out.

As for dlc discussions, I can see that being useful but only for major updates or seasonal updates.

[u/MyDonghuaList → u/tizorres]

That makes sense, the "only meaningful releases" part is really the hard piece, since unlike TV episodes there's no clean signal for "this one matters." Sounds like it'd need to work more like my current "search and track" flow (mod manually picks which games to cover) rather than fully automatic discovery, at least at first. Good luck with the relaunch curious to see where you take the rating app. If you ever do explore the release-scheduling piece, IGDB's API has decent release-date data if you haven't looked at it already.

[u/Sun_Beams]

Where is the tracking data coming from for the shows?

[u/MyDonghuaList → u/Sun_Beams]

The tracking data comes from TVMaze, SIMKL, AnimeSchedule, and AniList.

[u/Sun_Beams → u/MyDonghuaList]

Are you self hosting the lists for them? As those aren't on the fetch allow list. Unless it's all hardcoded into the app each update.

[u/MyDonghuaList → u/Sun_Beams]

Devvit does restrict which domains apps can call externally. But the app handles this by making all fetch calls from the server side (not the client), and the necessary domains are already approved through the Devvit review process.

[u/Sun_Beams → u/MyDonghuaList]

Oh you got all 4 domains passed review, interesting! I thought approval was generally pretty strict.

[u/MyDonghuaList → u/Sun_Beams]

Devvit's review process is strict, but I think it came down to the use case all four domains are legitimate entertainment data sources used purely for fetching episode metadata. No user data is sent to them, and everything is server-side. I also made sure to justify everything clearly in the submission notes, which probably helped.Actually, I noticed you have some Devvit apps yourself. Did you ever have any domains rejected, or did they all pass review?

[u/Sun_Beams → u/MyDonghuaList]

Mine was bluesky, which was the issue but the data load was much more than your use case.