@bluebotsdonequick.com - Blue Bots, Done Quick!

29 May 2026 09:04 +0000

Yeah, this is probably a good time to remind everyone that: - BBDQ does not use GenAI/LLMs - Bots created with BBDQ does not use GenAI/LLMs - BBDQ will never use GenAI/LLMs - Bots created with BBDQ will never use GenAI/LLMs - Most BBDQ bot replies don't actually READ replies, they return random text

03 Apr 2026 19:52 +0000

Server's not responding, restarting it doesn't really work, can't do much about it atm, will reattempt later

27 Jan 2026 21:24 +0000

I'm experimenting with small changes to the script that publishes your posts to Bluesky to reduce future crashes. At the moment, a side effect of said experimenting is that quite a few bots will post less frequently than usual. Hopefully, this is only temporary until I come up with something better.

27 Jan 2026 06:13 +0000

Also kinda wondering and a little afraid to ask, but another hypothetical... If BBDQ bots by default were restricted to only post 4 times a day and don't read replies, and anything above that was a paid option (say, $1/month with quantum discounts), would ANYONE be okay with that? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

26 Jan 2026 23:23 +0000

A kinda hypothetical question, asked out of curiosity: If I were unable to keep hosting BBDQ, would anyone be willing to take it over and keep it running in my place, assuming I handed you all the code and told you exactly how to use it? It's kinda gotten way too big for my server to handle 😩

11 Jan 2026 00:32 +0000

The reason BBDQ (and everything else on my server) occasionally goes down, is that the site was never scaled for running 1100+ bots, so occasionally it runs out of memory and stops working until I restart the server. For now, I don't really have a clever solution to this problem, sorry.

01 Sep 2025 04:58 +0000

So the Bsky app decided to not send me notifications about this mention OR the eight other mentions saying the same thing, so I didn't see it until now ... Server restarted, bots should start running again soon. No idea what the issue is, but will investigate, this is the second time it's happened [contains quote post or other embedded content]

15 Aug 2025 12:22 +0000

*700 followers*? Wow! Hello everybody! BBDQ is a tool allowing you to easily build your own Tracery-based Bluesky bot, coding it manually or using an editor. The entire process contains zero generative AI. The site is continuously being developed, and new functionality is always around the corner.

01 Aug 2025 08:34 +0000

Hmm, looks like my server has been down for a few hours. Should be up again now, and it looks like your bots are functional again.

04 Jul 2025 17:03 +0000

Serious question - if there was a beta version of Blue Bots Done Quick where you could try out brand new BBDQ functionality a month or two before it became public to everyone, and it was available to anyone who subscribed to the Patreon - would that be of interest to any of you?

08 Jun 2025 17:05 +0000

Just pushed a small, but important, change to BBDQ: If your Bluesky account is deleted, taken down, you change your password or anything else happens that prevents BBDQ to log you in to Bluesky, your bot will now automatically be deactivated. *For now*, you won't be notified when this happens.

08 Jun 2025 10:57 +0000

BBDQ now adds link cards to posts containing links, prominently displaying the website's title and featured image (assuming the linked website has a tag) for the first link in the post. This will make BBDQ run a *little* bit slower, so please don't overuse it.

29 May 2025 12:02 +0000

NEW FUNCTION: BBDQ now has an advanced post scheduler! - Scroll down to "Posting frequency" and select "At custom times" - Add daily, weekly or monthly posting schedules, as many as you want - Enter times in your own local timezone - Enter what text to post at that time - or stick with the default

29 May 2025 16:49 +0000

Since scheduled posts are now implemented, here's the next Patreon Feature poll! https://www.patreon.com/posts/feature-poll-2-130189940 Vote for what YOU want me to implement next on BBDQ. This time, the options are better error handling, Corpora implementation, link cards, and teaching bots to REMEMBER stuff! https://www.patreon.com/posts/feature-poll-2-130189940?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

29 May 2025 12:02 +0000

24 May 2025 16:26 +0000

Working on the BBDQ scheduler function, and I have a couple of questions for you: - If you set your bot to post at a given time on the 31st of every month, what would you expect to happen in a month with less than 31 days? - Is it important/vital for bots to auto-adjust for daylight savings time?

20 May 2025 19:59 +0000

Quick question out of curiosity – if there was a custom BBDQ domain (am considering bbdq.org – .com and .net were taken) that allowed you to easily get BBDQ themed handles for your bots (for free, obviously), would anyone be interested in using something like that?

10 May 2025 12:36 +0000

Six months later, there are more than 800 active bots (+ 200 inactive ones), with a total follower count of 230.000. (If we exclude the two huge outliers that are mostly non-bot-accounts, we're at 92.000 followers. Which is, you know, still *fantastic*.) This is why your bot is slow sometimes. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

09 May 2025 16:50 +0000

If you're wondering what BBDQ has in store for the future, I tend to jot down a lot of the things I really want to do with the website on the project's GitHub repository: https://github.com/olafmoriarty/blue-bots-done-quick/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3Aenhancement%20-label%3Awontfix Suggestions and feedback are welcome there, too (and here, of course).

07 May 2025 17:53 +0000

Okay, I am SO implementing this in BBDQ one day. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

04 May 2025 22:03 +0000

Testing something: Posting order, which basically controls the accuracy of your posting frequency, is now sorted by posting frequency, meaning weekly or daily bots will be more accurate than hourly or ten-minutely bots. Bots with many followers will also be more accurate than bots with few.

02 May 2025 10:13 +0000

Okay, I think most of the bugs surrounding last weekend's outage are gone now. Let me know if you have one I haven't fixed. The big issue still present is that the bsky connection is *slow* now. Posting a single post takes roughly five seconds, more if it has images, so 100 posts take >8 minutes.

01 May 2025 21:12 +0000

Kinda pondering just how unpopular it would be if I removed the "post every 10 minutes" option so that twice an hour was the most frequent posting option. There's currently 70+ active bots using it, so changing them to every 30 minutes COULD reduce traffic and speed up the site quite significantly.