I wish it was a lot more active, I know I have to give it time for users to start using this community. The subreddit is one of the few I still check on reddit to get local news and local stuff.

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Be the change you want to be. Start posting content that you want to see!

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Ooh! that’s a nice instance name, you loonatic

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Contribute and it’ll be more active. Every now and then I’ll post an interesting article and comment on others. If everyone did, we could have a really active community.

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It’s become slightly more active in the last weeks. Give it time. With what Reddit’s doing to its users I think eventually more will migrate here.

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Can someone more talented than me set up a bot to automatically post local CBC articles here?

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CBC doesn’t seem to have a feed for just Vancouver news.

It might be a bit of overload just pulling things from the BC feed and dumping that here: https://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/canada-britishcolumbia.xml

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There’s a cbcvancouver instagram profile, at least. It frequently posts about non-vancouver stuff though.

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I probably could, there are Github repos with code to do exactly that, but I don’t know if it’s against the community or anything.

Could probably set up a Bot to post local articles and whatnot from multiple sources.

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I think there’d have to be some manual review or something for high value posts. If everything local gets posted it’ll just start to feel like spam with no interaction.

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Just found you today. I’ll be on the lookout for local content to share and comments to make.

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