I'm sorry to see it go.
I was often piqued to read it - sometimes it was fair-->good+ , sometimes it wasn't; occasionally it bombed.
But it was free, it was a wip, it was inspired work, and it's far better than mine (nonexistant)!
I thank you.
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2024
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Thanks for the kind words!
I rather liked it myself (why create it otherwise), but I'm not gonna spam the whole Lemmy if people don't like it.
The code is still open source, just archived, so anyone can pick it up if they want.
I'm a little late, but I was just realising I hadn't heard from the bot and was wondering what happened to it. I'm sad to see it go, although I do understand why.
If you decide to bring it back, perhaps a system where it deletes its comment once downvoted below -1. I think the Reddit bot did that. That way there's a mechanism to remove inaccurate comments. I can't remember if the bot already had something like this, but if it didn't, perhaps a user, community, and instance opt out system could be implemented. I think if iirc, the previous system was basically "if you don't like it, just ban the bot" (although I may be getting mixed up with other bots. That sort of approach often makes some people upset as they may see it as unsolicited spam with no proper opt out system.
In any case, I don't think this will be the end for AutoTLDR (or a derivative), and I'm keen to see what other projects you come out with!
Thanks for running the bot for so long, most of us appreciate it♥️
Oh no, that was the best thing we had here :-/
It certainly didn't get everything right, but was better than sifting through garbage articles... Any chance you could reconsider? If people don't like it, let them block it and done, why ruin it for everybody?
People tend to complain more than compliment. It wasn’t perfect, but it was a pretty useful tool.
What I thought the auto tldr was awesome and read them all the time. Please reconsider
Yeah, I was always glad to see it whenever an article piqued my interest. Thank you for your work, and hope you reconsider.
As someone else suggested, tell people who don't like it to block it.
Hey, I liked it! Except for that one nasty bug where it discarded about half of the article text. I'd like to see it back, but without the TLDR part. Just the full article please. It's way more comfortable than opening a separate webpage and waiting for all ads and paywall prompts to load.
It did pretty good. Some journalists would fill their article with so much useless information that the bot would unfortunately miss the two relevant sentences.
The problem is that many journalists these days get paid by article length/word count, so they inflate the shit out of it and hope whoever is in charge of proofreading doesn't cut too much out. If you compare articles written in newspapers/websites where they still have a regular staff on payroll vs. those that have more "guest authors" than anything, you'll immediately see what I mean. It's a shame really.
Bummer. I guess I should have said thank you more often. Thanks for running it for as long as you did!
Too bad. I thought it was good. Thank you though.
What I thought the auto tldr was awesome and read them all the time. Please reconsider
I liked it since it allowed me to avoid clicking on the articles themselves.
I have definitrly been reading autoTLDR and will be sad to see it go. Hope you reconsider!
I liked it. Thanks for your work.
Just adding to the "maybe reconsider?" comments. I found it useful and I think it's trivially easy for annoyed users to simply block it. Why should their laziness remove something many of us like? Idk, maybe allow each magazine's (community's?) mods to decide for their specific magazine/community? That would be a lot of effort though, probably.
Whatever you choose to do, cool tool and thank you :)
Another voice to say I really liked it and appreciated it. But I understand feeling discouraged by some people’s comments, it suck to feel unappreciated when you did a cool helpful thing. Hope you reconsider but I certainly don’t hold it against you!!!
Noooooo! It was great most of the time and still worth a laugh when not.
Would you consider enabling it on request? If someone mentions it in a post or a comment it could reply with a summary.
I liked it!
It was clear what & how it did it, and it was great.
I don't think anyone seriously interested in the posts subject would fully rely on tl;dr alone of any kind.
It was a free preview that delivered way beyond that.
It also helped lower the plague of ads being spread with some extra ady pages, as well as deliver content when the links were down.
... and I always upvoted the bot. Good bot.
Is there any chance of bringing it back?
Not likely, it costs money to run it and I was often getting messages about it sucking and whatnot. It doesn't cost much, but paying for something and then listening how shitty it is kinda lost its appeal.
Completely fair, I will miss it
+1 comment for "please reconsider".
The bot isn't perfect, but it does provide some utility, and is easy to block if one doesn't find it useful.