botsin.space shutdown
Sad news last month when our Mastodon host announced they were shutting down: https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/. The server will go read-only sometime after today. The Mastodon bot asked its final question a few hours ago.
Congratulations to @cmayes@notacult.social for scoring the most points in the final season with 1,384 points! Full scores for this server will be preserved at https://triviastorm.net/#/c/botsinspace/scores
The bot on this server was created on Dec 22, 2022, so it ran for a bit under 2 years. Thanks to everyone who supported and participated in the trivia bot’s run on botsin.space, I hope you all had fun and maybe even learned some new things.
Sad news today, as Twitter has announced that API access will no longer be free startong on Feb 9, 2023. Sadly this means the end of the bot’s run on Twitter which started in Feb 2017. Almost 5 years! It was fun while it lasted. The Twitter bot will run until it can’t.
Migrating to Mastodon
That was the bad news. The good news is that a version of the trivia bot is already up and running on the fediverse/Mastodon networks. You can follow the bot at https://botsin.space/@triviastorm. It follows the same rules and uses the same question set: a new question is asked every hour, and the bot will collect and score correct responses after an hour. Additionally, the bot supports hiding your responses behind Mastodon’s spoiler/content warning feature!
I’ve long been wanting to add a blog to this domain, but never found the time for it. But given recent events on Twitter, I figured I would need another channel to announce news about the triviabot(s). So here we are! (Kind of using a default theme at the moment, we can personalize it later!)
Not much else to say right now, but I’m hoping to have an update before the end of the year, watch this space!