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Link to the discussion post made when shinobu was late to the 100GF party for future visitors.

I liked this episode better than the opening, My big complaint about the first two episodes is that there was too much ecchi that felt really out of place. This episode there was no ecchi to be seen (other than some random S&M slaves of the one aunt? idk, that one is still weird).

One thing that I did find a bit weird is how many transitions they have in this show. They had a dozen or more instances of a quick transition with a spinning face icon and it really disrupted the flow of scenes. It did not surprise me when I looked up the source manga to find out that it is a 4 koma format. However, I feel like you can adapt a 4 koma better without excessive use of transition sequences like that (see Tomo-chan for instance).

Enjoyed the first episode a lot. It's good to see that they have kept the meta-humor feel to the series. In the manga, there are lots of meta-jokes referencing things like panels, the artist, chapters, etc. So, I am glad to see that during the conversation with the god, that the meta-jokes remain strong when he talks about getting lines cut from the manga and then we literally see a skip button and a mouse click it like its a game or something. This one looks like it will be a lot of fun. Kind of funny that this is airing the same season as Kanojo mo Kanojo.

I agree that a weekly pinned thread where non-seasonal anime could be discussed would be great. I also watch some older shows and there isn't anywhere in this community currently to discuss them other than just creating a new post; which a lot of people like yourself tend to find a high barrier to entry.

I kind of like the voting before a season idea!

I see, so the top level replies in the megathread would be the equivalent of an episode thread and discussion of that episode would be replies to the bot's top level comment? That could help, though it would be even better if lemmy allowed for replies to be automatically collapsed like the source corner posts in the reddit threads.

I thought that this moment might be a good point to ask peoples' opinions because of the temporary outage so that people saw what it might be like without the bot. I personally agree with you that automation can be beneficial and help facilitate community involvement. Also personally, I think that the current Shinobu is great, but wanted to see what others thought.

Thanks again for the hard work of keeping our Shinobu running.

Same. Faced with the prospect of having to manually make episode posts going forward, I actually spun up a wiki for myself to more easily be able to copy paste all the markdown for each show involved in the posts.

It would certainly require a major rework or a new bot entirely, but I made this thread for brainstorming ideas and getting peoples' opinions. This isn't a bad idea, though I think it might run into incidental spoiler exposure similar to another idea in this thread. I like the idea though of consolidating many threads into a periodic megathread of some kind. Weekly makes sense to me, similar to the airing page on anichart.

Yeah, this is what I am worried about. I don't personally really mind it, but I sympathize with those that would find it annoying. In general, I have seen a fairly negative sentiment towards bots of any kind on Lemmy, so I wanted to get a feel for what others in this community think.

I see what you are saying. The one thread/season would definitely cause some spoiler issues unless there were some strict moderation. Your idea caused me to think of something like a pinned megathread with actively airing shows and their episode thread links in a table. Then, you could have the bot post the discussion threads to a separate, dedicated, bot-run community that houses all the automated threads. This would leave /c/anime more clutter-free, even if there is little activity on a lot of shows.

For example, the megathread could have something like this for the actively airing shows:

Personally speaking, I appreciate the automated posts as a standardized format for the posts to be made. Having consistent post titles makes searching for previous discussions easier and the posts (after some tweaking for lemmy vs. reddit) include a table to make looking at previous episode discussion threads very easy.

That being said, I sympathize with people that don't want the community or their feed filled up with episode threads that don't have any comments/activity in them. While the community remains small, it might be better to limit the number of shows that the bot is used for rather than let it rip on everything it finds. The anime subreddit can do that because of the larger userbase more actively voting popular things to the front page, but in this community, all posts spend some time in the front page.

The bot also definitely has some issues. There are some shows that it seems to not be able to pick up new episodes for. As an example this season, the bot missed making a thread for Tearmoon Empire (thanks @[email protected] for stepping in). Last season, I remember several shows that also never really got threads either. I am not a dev, so I can't really dive too deeply to figure out why, but the problems are there.