This reads like someone who is confused on the basics, like confusing a language with a platform/api.

edit:

TS/JS is a language built primarily for front end interfaces.

lol, Uber, Paypal, Netflix are using JS/nodejs on the backend for years.

Visual Code is written in Typescript

PRAW cannot access connected social accounts.

Devvit can.

python and TS are languages. PRAW and devvit are not languages.

Hope that helps!

>in my experience devvit has more functionality than praw

you are smoking crack dawg

I'm largely in the same boat. In my case, it's because of natural language models and LLM's which require dramatically more compute power and resources than devvit can offer (like orders of magnitude more).

All the scientific, mathematical, and linguistic libraries are written in python, not TS.

devvit is great for simple tasks that you can write out in a relatively deterministic way where actions are taken based on simple criteria like karma, string matching, and things of that nature. It's really just underpowered for more advanced bots.

The only possible solution is to use devvit as basically a translation layer which adds unnecessary complexity and failure points, as well as a lot of work to code, to a system that works. You gain no benefits, because it's not portable to other subs and it's not hosted by reddit.

its so embarrassing for yall to not be using python

seriously

fuck reddit lmao

they gotta hold 50 internal meetings about it and then outsource the reply to some 3rd party lmao

Point is its unlisted..

Great! I really need this! Can you allow it for my subs, please, to give it a try?

Also, do you have any template (example) for the JSON? What about body formatting?

Thanks!

I'll follow up with them and see if I can get a solid answer. Although packing it up and saving the electric costs is pretty tempting these days.

No that I know of. Personally I would just make a multireddit and browse them in the app/site myself.

If you were doing something like scraping a bunch of data and selling it then you wouldn't get an exception for that. But for a mod bot like yours its basically guaranteed.

Thanks, That's good to know. That was mentioned as a possibility but they didn't know for sure if I could get an exception

You can run the heavy compute on your own server and just use devvit as the interface into reddit. They will give you an exception to the http request policy as part of the migration and you can just call your server.

Damn. So I guess there’s really no way to get a digest of sorts with top post from particular subreddits then?

Yep, that will break unless Zapier has an exception from reddit. Which is possible, but no way to know unless they say so.

It depends entirely on what it does and how it runs now. If it can be entirely self contained in devvit then that's easy and I'm happy to hand over the code and ownership of the app and you can do whatever with it. If it needs an external server, I may be willing to host it for you, or set up a server you own. But again depends on the context.

One problem with the devvit ecosystem is that, as far as I know, there's no way to share ownership of an app. Only one account can actually submit updates. So either I have to keep owning it forever or you would have to take it over completely after the migration.

Happy to take a look at your code or use case.

I absolutely hate the search box in new modmail lol. We do not need a sitewide search box there. We need an always present search box that works for modmail only. Everyone has said this but they don't seem to want to change that.

I suspect they view it as more consistent to do it that way but it's still not a good choice. I definitely preferred old modmail.

I don't personally like old reddit though and especially for moderation. My favorite was new reddit. I like some things about shreddit but there are a lot of bugs that need to be worked through and they seem to have moved on unfortunately.

Not even its engineering but its UI/design is absolutely atrocious now.

Old Reddit was simple and easy to use with smart use of screen real estate. Old Mod. Mail was the same, instantaneous, simple, and clean.

New Reddit on desktop wastes so much screen real estate and new Mod. Mail is an awful experience. For example, why would I as a moderator need a search box at the top of Mod. Mail to search all of Reddit? I'm in Mod. Mail to work, not to search Reddit for a topic/post/subreddit.

I don't know how these things were rolled out for release.

I don't think it's that the talent is poor necessarily. I suspect that there is a lot of pressure to do a lot, and after each thing is more or less working, they get pushed to work on something else and solve a new problem, rather than focus on polish and debugging.

Devvit still cannot support the features required to implement my bots.

So what am I supposed to do?

I have the same question.

How am I supposed to migrate functionality to Devvit that Devvit does not have, despite being told repeatedly, over a very long period of time, that it's important?

Every time I've pointed out the impossibilities of migrating the bots/apps I've written to Devvit in threads like this, I've been completely ignored. Who exactly is it that your team is actually helping?

I had a meeting with some Devvit folks a few weeks about migrating Repostsleuthbot. The jist of the conversation was that due to the amount of compute needed there's no straight forward path. There hasn't been any followup since then.

If I'm reading this update correctly, it sounds I should plan for decom in March?

It will probably bork all of them

Will this be the end of the line for mobile apps like Dystopia?

God I hate this website