Hello everyone! After a long break from basketball, the NBA has returned! Flairs have been unfaded and we will have the first game of the year tomorrow. While it was a fun off-season filled with shitposts, we’d like to remind you that those days are over for now. This particular offseason, we did not make any major changes to any of the rules. As long as you follow the general posting guidelines, things should be good.

####Game threads update and other bots related activities:

Over the past month, we have undertaken an effort to migrate our server, on which the bots were hosted, to a new server. This entire process entails:

• Shutting down the bots and the old server
• Migrating the source code repository from a private repo to a public repo, to allow open-source contributions
• Setting up the new server and making it ready to run the bots
• Starting the schedule to run the bots

We are still in the process of migration, which means we won’t have much of the bot automation activities for the new season. This includes: Automated Game Threads, Game Thread index and the Daily Discussion thread, automated updates to the Game Bar at the top of the subreddit, automated updates to the schedule and standings in the sidebar, and highlight quality bot.

We are trying our best to finish the migration and have the bots running as soon as possible. We also will try our best to update the sidebar every once in a while, to the best of our abilities.

For the game threads, we have decided that users can now post the game threads. While submitting game threads, please follow the following title guidelines. This will ensure the game thread gets appropriately flaired and the comments will be sorted by new automatically.

GAME THREAD: Los Angeles Lakers (0-0) @ Denver Nuggets (0-0) - (October 24, 2023)

As always, we are happy to clarify or answer any questions you might have in the comments below