To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by jprob » Thu, May 23, 2019, 4:20 PM UTC

To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot
open.nytimes.com

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Post by ForHackernews » Thu, May 23, 2019, 4:50 PM UTC

Wait, Google doesn't support Perl?

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by lallysingh » Thu, May 23, 2019, 4:52 PM UTC

ForHackernews wrote: post #2

Wait, Google doesn't support Perl?

Who'd voluntarily do so in 2019?

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by lallysingh » Thu, May 23, 2019, 4:53 PM UTC

The article's actual title is "To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around New York Times Articles, We Built a Slack Bot."

There's some strong editorializing in this post's title.

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by h3throw » Thu, May 23, 2019, 4:55 PM UTC

lallysingh wrote: post #3

ForHackernews wrote: post #2

Wait, Google doesn't support Perl?

Who'd voluntarily do so in 2019?

I'm told that Amazon and Booking both have huge production Perl code bases so some major orgs still care about it

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 23, 2019, 5:01 PM UTC

h3throw wrote: post #5

lallysingh wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who'd voluntarily do so in 2019?

I'm told that Amazon and Booking both have huge production Perl code bases so some major orgs still care about it

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Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by baud147258 » Thu, May 23, 2019, 5:02 PM UTC

lallysingh wrote: post #4

The article's actual title is "To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around New York Times Articles, We Built a Slack Bot." There's some strong editorializing in this post's title.

The actual title is too long for the HN submission. But I agree that the editorializing is poor; a better title would have been: NY Times tracks Reddit conversations around their articles using a Slack bot

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Post by whack » Thu, May 23, 2019, 5:03 PM UTC

It's interesting how "NYT tracks Reddit conversations" sounds so much less malevolent when you know exactly what they are doing and why. Ie, posting slack links of public Reddit threads so the article authors can see and participate in the resulting discussion.

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Post by lallysingh » Thu, May 23, 2019, 5:13 PM UTC

h3throw wrote: post #5

lallysingh wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who'd voluntarily do so in 2019?

I'm told that Amazon and Booking both have huge production Perl code bases so some major orgs still care about it

Good point. There's probably good money in the "host all the stuff that's old and scary" business.

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by ImprovedSilence » Thu, May 23, 2019, 5:15 PM UTC

I would wager they are doing the same thing for HN. Also of note, ever since I started coming back here for the first time in several years, I couldn’t help but notice the high percentage of NYT articles posted here. I’m not saying they don’t fit the HN mold/interest bucket, but I was just surprised to see so many headlines from them here, on HN, so regularly. I think NYT is playing a strong grassroots/AstroTurf/social media game.