Update: M_F (https://sh.itjust.works/u/m_f@lemm.ee has ) has kindly stepped up to be lead moderator on all the comic communities! That makes me very happy that they will continue!!! If you reached out to help, please work with M_F directly. Thanks again M_F!!!!
TLDR: I’m sad to report that I will no longer be posting daily comics as I just don’t have the time :( If anyone wants to take over the daily posts, please DM me. Ideally, there would be 2-3 people to split up posting duties to make it easier.
The longer story is, I run my own graphics business which is my regular full-time gig. On top of that, at the beginning of the year. I started my lifelong passion project and created my own comic strip called Bello Bear (https://sh.itjust.works/c/bellobearofficial@lemmy.world). Sadly, there is only so much time in day and running a full-time business, a passion project, and also having some sort of home life at the same time is just not possible.
Even though posting the daily comics is only about a half hour of my time, it adds up. It’s also 7 days a week and though I’m a creature of habit, it is a grind. I would rather dedicate that time to my passion project, which is currently limited to only Mon, Wed, and Friday releases as I'm already stretched thin.
This is effective immediately for the following communities…
Calvin and Hobbes https://sh.itjust.works/c/calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world
The Far Side https://sh.itjust.works/c/thefarside
Garfield https://sh.itjust.works/c/garfield@lemmy.world
Bloom County https://sh.itjust.works/c/bloomcounty@lemm.ee
Cyanide and Happiness https://sh.itjust.works/c/cyanideandhappiness@lemm.ee
If you are interested taking over the reigns for any of the comic communities, please DM me.
Thanks for posting the comics and congrats on running a successful business!
This seems like something that a bot could do via the Lemmy API, no? Granted, a number of folks block bot posts.
You are welcome and thank you very much. I'm guessing a bot could do it, but that is certainly not in my wheelhouse of expertise to setup.
It would be mine.
My mind-boggling rate of posting is enabled by my augmenting the process with custom tools I maintain myself.
It's also how I post to !moomin@sopuli.xyz which I started inspired by the calvin and hobbes posts. (Though I haven't yet made it run daily without my intervention, each post only takes a second of my day, zero, when I get around to have it run on its own).
If you have all the strips and their dates stored digitally in some way, I'd be more than happy to help keep the daily posts going, by potentially entirely automating the process.
Right on, I'll check out Moomin! As to C&H, I do screen caps of the dailies from GoComics https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/02/15. If you can automate that would be awesome. Let me know if you want me to add you as a mod.
I hope you find some other people to moderate, as I have already taken on more than enough on that plate (two dozen communities and counting). Sooner or later I'll be in your position, looking for people to help me mod, rather than being the one offering to mod 😅
But, the short term work of writing a bot to do this and perhaps then even running it for you (indefinitely even) is within reason. If you like, DM me with a way to contact you on discord or matrix. I'd love to hear where you source the comics and dates for all your comics communities.
Perhaps I can make something generic enough that with just some configuration it could work for all your communities.
Please take MentalEdge up on this offer! ☝️
We could use this website that a Reddit user created about 15 years ago:
https://www.s-anand.net/calvinandhobbes.html#19851120
Then it's just a matter of automating this like you suggested, since we can request a specific date in the URL parameter.
How do you post to Lemmy? What tool did you use for posting?
I'm using the pythorhead library in python.
Makes interaction with lemmy in code very easy.
Oh that would be so great to keep the daily posts going through an automation!
Thanks for stepping in, I was hoping my post would prompt someone to either point to an existing solution or offer to help. You did both!