That’s pretty much it! There are tons of shows going on at any given time, so I tried to add features to stem the flood of discussion posts. Some tips for managing things:

Under the [options] section, I have discovery_enabled = false. I realize now that this was named poorly, but this doesn’t turn off discovery all together, instead, just makes sure that any new shows it does discover are disabled by default, meaning that it won’t make new posts for them as they air.

You can use the disable module to mark shows as disabled in the database. I have instructions in the readme for how to disable different sets of shows (including just disabling everything).

Speaking of disabling everything…that is how I start the new season of shows. I then make a thread about the upcoming season, asking people what they are planning to watch, and go through and enable each of those shows manually using the enable module. I think that overall this worked pretty well last season. Spoiler alert is that Monday’s general thread in the anime community will be the Summer version of that process.

When a user requests a show via PM (using the listen module), it also sets the show as enabled. So, if you want to start discussion threads that way, by requesting aired shows one at a time via pm, that is another option.

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Finally, some additional tips on managing the backend of things:

• I go through the scheduling process in the automation section of the readme. The listen and summary modules are run every 5 minutes while the episode is additionally run every 15 minutes.
• On my system, I also added a third script that runs once a week at a time that doesn’t conflict with any of the other repeating scripts (I think mine is like 3:03 AM on a Sunday). This script runs the update module with the all parameter and runs the disable module with the finished parameter, just to do some housekeeping

Some other things that pop into my head:

• Since the database used is sqlite, it is simply a file on the filesystem. I back it up using rsnapshot. This is the page that I used to help me configure it. I haven’t had to use the backups yet, but it does give a little peace of mind.
• I also periodically copy the database file onto a different machine (no automation here). I simply scp (linux) or WinSCP (Windows) over a copy. I often end up using this to help with development more than anything since it is nice to have a prepopulated database when testing new features.
• If you want to browse the data in the database file to try to track down a problem or just explore how things work under the hood, then I recommend DB Browser, it’s a nice tool for people like me that are SQL noobs.