Oh man, this bums me out.

RemindMe bot is no longer functional following the API pricing change, and many Redditors are still unaware of this fact.

You were a good bot, RemindMe. I want you to remember that.

This is the best showerthought I've seen in ages.

I think I'm going to like it here!

I used to get a notification every year for some dude who had posted on reddit that he was alone on his birthday one year. He stopped replying several years ago, but I still messaged him each year at the prompt of remindme. So that's also a use case.

Probably one of the few useful bots ever added to Reddit.

We didn't need a million and one spelling, grammar and whatever other stupid bots the place got infected with. Hopefully Lemmy doesn't end up with them either.

Like shadows burned on the sides of buildings in Hiroshima

Oh my god... WHERE'S EPOXY HOTDOG GUY?!

Kind of sad if you think about it... After my heart attack and open heart surgery, I had considered setting up a bot to randomly send an /r/aww or /r/funny link to my wife every day after I die. Glad I didn't now. :(

It's about time that people understood that "Everything on the internet lasts forever" is a falsehood formed from a Web 2.0 mindset. Now those big Web 2.0 sites everyone thought would dominate the internet forever are dying, and the only thing saving what was on those websites (the internet archive) is being constantly sued by greedy publishers.

Damn this is a quality shower thought...sad but profound.

Does the bot used the API to send the message? In that case not even a couple of months alerts are going to work.

Awww, man.

Now I'm sad.

Thanks a lot, @orion2145. Not cool.

In retrospect those were ridiculously optimistic

I never thought about that before. I wonder how many were actually important.

It was sort of ambitious for people to think they'd be on reddit with the same account in 20 years

Like tears in rain

Do we have any remindme bot in lemmy?

Man this ruined my night

RIP, let's be honest though it was just for the bit.

I think the bot was already down before the blackout. I remember trying to set a !remind me and nothing happened. Then I read somewhere that the bot was now offline.

I don't think anyone reasonably expected it to work that long

!RemindMe 5 years

Would that bot even be functional long term with the API changes?

The only bot I'll actually miss is The-Paranoid-Android from the SCP page.

!RemindMe 5 years

some adbot or AI bot will try to sell it a porn subscription.