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.
Future plans
Unfortunately, I currently don’t have the time nor energy to deploy the bot to a different server. I will look into it in 2025, and an announcement will be made in this space when something is available. If you would like to be notified directly when the bot is deployed to a new server, kindly inform me via https://indieweb.social/@roytang.
In addition to migrating to a different Mastoon instance, I am considering porting a version of the trivia bot over to Bluesky, which also has an open API I can use. I have no timeline as to when this may happen!
Support Us
If you have enjoyed the use of the trivia bot(s), please consider leaving me a tip! I understand it’s a bit weird to ask for money after announcing a service is ending, even temporarily; any amount is appreciated and will help with future developments.