Sorry if this has been discussed here before, I‘m a new reddit refugee and I just stumbled over this community, awesome that this place already exists again! I always enjoyed the discussion threads on the subreddit throughout a race weekend, so I was wondering if something similar will be done here? On the other hand, this community is still very small, so it may be a little overkill I guess. Looking forward to following my first GP through Lemmy either way - I‘ll see you all on Friday

  • Speex@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    The plan is to make a weekend a race discussion, I am working on getting a bot running to automate the process but as we get things going it will be manual.

    As for race spoilers in titles we have not made a decision, May need to get a community vote going. I living in west coast US also dislike the spoilers but try to remember folks are pretty excited about their team winning. Not sure how I would vote at this time. Please think about it yourselves.

    • Morningcoffee @beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      On sync for reddit I used ‘sports mode’ to automatically refresh the race discussion thread, as a nice slow-chat next to the race stream. Is that possible on Lemmy?

      • Speex@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s a great question. Is On Sync sports mode a Bot? I never watched the races live. I tried a quick search but the reddits talking about it are still dark (woohoo).

        Bots on Lemmy are still fairly sparse. We are working on configuring one now for general moderation.

  • Styrke@feddit.dkEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    It was discussed in this post.

    I think the conclusion was shared in this other post with the following quote:

    For Canada we shall trial one stickied post for the whole weekend. We can see how that goes and find out if it makes sense to be a little more granular.

    • itsmikeyd@lemmy.mlMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      This is what we will be doing. I’ll reiterate it in a post tonight with the conclusion to the recent poll.

  • blitzen@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’d like to add, as someone who has to time-shift watching the grand prix, I sure would appreciate not having the weekend spoiled in post titles. I literally had to unsubscribe and even filter out r/formula1 because they’d post spoilers in post titles.

    • fristislurper@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think it is very hard to discuss the weekend without mentioning what happened… Maybe there is a better way of doing this. Maybe tags and filtering somehow? Or marking spoilers nsfw? Not sure what is possible in Lemmy.

    • evanuggetpi@lemmy.nzEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Living in NZ means I watch most races on a Monday morning. I have a social media blackout until I have watched it. That works fine, and a little less time spent staring in the black mirror is good for the soul anyway.

      • -spam-@kbin.socialM
        2·
        1 year ago

        Same here over the ditch.

        I try and make sure I always work from home on the Monday after a race too so I can watch it at my desk on the iPad.

        Only problem is when google is like, hey here’s this news story about that racing you like in my notifications on my phone.

  • munji@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I hope so, might take a bit of time to get off the ground but it would be really cool to see this place grow

  • r0bbbo@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m trying to figure out if this is now the major hub for F1 fans or if Discord OS winning—any numbers from either? I certainly prefer it here!

  • itsmikeyd@lemmy.mlMEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    We shall be trialling a single post to cover the whole weekend of racing for the Grand Prix.

    We are still a small community (though rapidly growing!) and we don’t have bots to do stuff for us (yet!).

    If that doesn’t end up working, we’ll look at splitting it up further.

  • ncls_ptrk@feddit.deEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I would also like to see discussion threads. Maybe not seperate ones for each session since the community is still small?

    • Gerryflap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah maybe we should keep them together a bit more. Although a separation of practice/quali/race is needed as a minimum imo

      • ncls_ptrk@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Sounds reasonable. What do the moderators think about this? I think they would be the ones to manage this stuff, as there is probably no bot yet, right?

        • SyJ@lemmy.mlMEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          There is no bot and no bot support, so one of us would need to be online to pin the thread. I think for quali and most race’s that should be easy enough, practice sessions could be more difficult depending on when the team are available and what time zone they are in

          • itsmikeyd@lemmy.mlMEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I sent you a DM that you’re now a mod and have invited you to the mod chat discord where we have been discussing bots 😁. Looks like it’s doable.