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Should we separate this out into MTGO and Arena communities? (mtgzone.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was planning to set up a bot to post the Arena daily deals screenshot each day, and I was curious if it would be better to put that in a dedicated Arena room or just leave it here.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At this stage, the community is so small that combining the two platforms is fine. Long-term, if we grow to hundreds or thousands of users, I'd bet at least some of them would appreciate being able to subscribe separately.

I like the idea of having the bot post the daily deals. I was idly dreaming about what it would take to have a bot repost some of the official news articles -- I know I always like to see the weekly Arena announcements -- but I don't see anything like an RSS feed on https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/archive , and I sure don't like the idea of trying to scrape the HTML, having to rework the bot every time they change the page....