Seattle Sounders FC

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A place for Sounders fans in the Fediverse. Discussion, analysis, match threads, and more.

Looking for mods, banner images, and new ideas!

Who are the Sounders

Seattle's MLS team, born in 1974 and in MLS since 2009
Winners of the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League, 2016 and 2019 MLS Cups, 2014 MLS Supporters Shield, and 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2014 US Open Cups

Community Guidelines

These are some proposed guidelines to get us started, but open to discussion!

Hot takes and strong opinions go hand in hand with fandom, especially with a supporter community as passionate as the Sounders'. Still: keep it supportive! Remember that players are people and our boys bleed blue and green, even on an off day. Overwhelming negativity is not an attractive look.
Abusive language directed towards anyone - including opposing teams - is not acceptable. Similarly, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, or other hateful language or content will not be tolerated.
This community is meant for Sounders-related discussions and content. We welcome fans of all teams to share in these discussions. Trolling or brigading by opposition fan groups, however, will be removed. Similarly, encouraging the trolling or brigading of other communities is not acceptable.
While most content will be Sounders-focused, we welcome posts & discussion about any Seattle- or Washington-based soccer teams (e.g. OL Reign, Defiance, Ballard FC)

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Banner image credit: SoundersBruce on Wikimedia Commons (License: CC BY-SA 4.0)

founded 1 year ago

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coys25@lemmy.world

CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world

Looking for mods and ideas for the community (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by coys25@lemmy.world to c/soundersfc@lemmy.world

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Created this community after seeing this thread over at !MLS@lemmy.world.

I am entirely new to the fediverse and not experienced at modding anything, so would be very grateful for mod volunteers, suggestions on community guidelines, alternative media to use for the site, sidebar content, or whatever!

I tossed up a banner image using a photo that I took from the CCL championship celebration / trophy lift, but any alternative free to use, higher quality image would be great.

Here's hoping this is off to a good start!

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[–] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Love that you've set this up. I'm thinking about trying to set up an RSS feed bot to repost Sounders content to the community: Sounders At Heart, Nos Audietus and the Seattle Times to start maybe? Would that be something we'd be interested in, just to jumpstart the community and get some content going?

[–] coys25@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not opposed to giving it a try - I've been more or less doing that by hand. What do others think?

Whether it's by hand or by bot, I do worry a little bit about drowning out user submitted posts as we get going. Over on some other communities it seems like user posts can be buried quickly under an avalanche of goal vids, for instance, but maybe that problem will self correct. Thoughts?

If you know how to set up bots, do you have any idea how we could get an automated match thread bot going?

[–] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do. The general idea would be to grab a Google Cloud Platform free tier hobby server and deploy https://github.com/janschlatter/feddit-matchbot on it. I'll try with !reign_fc and once I get it working, I'll check back in about adding it here.

[–] coys25@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds freat! I didn't realize that you had started !reign_fc@lemmy.world - nice! Link added to the sidebar here and will be heading over that way for match threads for sure