Even after I fixed the bug I was seeing with RssBot, I continued to see errors. Diving into the log again, I saw the following error:
RssBot has mostly been working really well. However, every once in a while it would just stop posting. The worst part about this is that I wouldn’t notice until I restarted the machine that it is on, incidentally restarting RssBot. This time, however, I caught it in the log, and I was determined to fix the issue.
I published my post on RssBot two days ago. It worked successfully on that post — huzzah! — and everything else appeared to be working as well. However, when I stopped RssBot, moved it to a different directory on the server, and restarted it, it sent the post again.
In one of the Discord servers I’m in, there’s a channel for people to post links to their blogs, so we can all read them. My blog has an RSS feed, so one can subscribe to it using an RSS reader application (I use NetNewsWire) to get updates without having to check the site. However, I figured it’d be nice to have a bot that posts blog updates in a channel, rather than making everyone set up an RSS reader.