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About

Toasty is an antifreeze bot for the Stack Exchange chat system. It automatically sends messages in low-activity rooms to keep the system from freezing them for inactivity. Toasty is usable by any user with at least 200 network-wide reputation through its intuitive web interface.

Caveats:

  • Toasty cannot antifreeze rooms that its bot user cannot access; this realistically means that the following cannot be antifrozen:
    • Private rooms
    • Rooms that are already frozen
    • Gallery rooms that Toasty is not allowed to access
  • For Gallery rooms, Toasty's bot user must be allowed to send messages. If Toasty is unable to antifreeze a room, an error will be logged under the Runs tab on the room info page.

The antifreeze jobs run daily at UTC midnight.

Screenshot:

A screenshot of Toasty's index page

Website

Find Toasty at https://toasty.ginger.services

Contact:

Toasty was written entirely by me, Ginger. You can discuss it in its dedicated chatroom, which is also linked to in the footer.

License

Toasty is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.

Code

Toasty is written in TypeScript using Next.js. You can find its source at https://github.com/gingershaped/toasty-neo.

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    "Better" apparently offers comparison to my competing offer, Sloshy the Thawman. I have to say having two bots for the same purpose is an unhappy situation; we should probably coordinate to let one or the other take over. Commented Feb 9, 2024 at 7:04
  • It should be possible to see which rooms it is guarding without creating a login. Commented Feb 9, 2024 at 7:07
  • Is there a technical reason for the 200 reputation requirement? Commented Jul 9, 2024 at 13:25
  • @TylerH Nope, it's to ensure that the bot can only be used by people with some amount of experience on the network (at least as measured by reputation) Commented Jul 9, 2024 at 14:53

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