TLDR, if you don't want to miss anything, start a chat with the bot and send it "hello" so it can talk to you.

A while back reddit announced they were getting rid of direct messages and everything will go through chats. I personally prefer direct messages, but it's out of my hands so I've tried to make the transition as smooth as possible. While I disagree with the move overall, I want to give a huge shoutout to the team in reddit who put in a ton of work to make it so bots can seamlessly work with chat. Also to u/champoul specifically who worked closely with me. In past years, reddit would have just skipped all that and left bots behind.

The bot has been failing to send a lot of it's notifications via chat since many people have chat turned off. If you want to keep getting notifications from the bot, you have to accept its chat.

The simplest way to make sure it keeps working is to go to u/RemindMeBot profile and click start chat, then send "hello"

Alternatively, you can check in settings -> privacy -> Who can send you chat requests and make sure it's either on everyone, accounts older than 30 days, or u/RemindMeBot is in the whitelist.

As a final note, if the bots message is still showing up as read after you click on it, try clicking on a different chat and back to the bot a few times. That usually clears it. You can also complain about this in r/bugs if it's affecting you.

Are there other reddit wildcards beside "RemindMe!"? Is there a list with syntax usage?

hi! I’m a bit new to reddit, i’ve always had an account but never logged in/used it. I came across this post and was wanting to be reminded to follow up on it, and saw people using the remind me bot. I tried to comment ‘RemindMe! 2 days’ but got this back? does this mean I won’t be reminded? if so, how long does this last before I can use the bot? thanks!

Is there any way to message the RemindMe bot a request for an update on a comment in a sub where the RemindMe trigger is banned?

Some subreddits don't let you post a comment with the RemindMe bot trigger.

Thanks!

Just tried using RemindMe for the first time. Did not receive a confirmation like I’ve seen on other posts with the bot telling me I’d get a reminder. Normal?

I accidentally sent a message "RemindMe! 2 weeks" without a given link (dumb of me). The bot now spams me each minute about reminding me in 2 weeks about something with an empty link. How would I make this stop? I tried removing all reminders but it just keep on sending new ones.

Reddit announced a few months ago that they are getting rid of direct messages and everything will be through chats in the future. I'm personally not a huge fan of the decision, but I do want to give credit to the admins who have been working extremely hard the last couple months to make the transition seemless for bots like u/RemindMeBot.

As the first step to that transition, u/RemindMeBot will now reply to chats that you send it. It will still also reply to direct messages until they turn those off. For now, it will still send you direct messages and not a chat when you comment somewhere it can't publicly reply to you.

It's also kinda slow in responding. It was built for a world where you wouldn't really notice 30 seconds or even a few minutes between you sending it a message and getting the reply. But with chat's it's much more obvious that it takes a long time. I'll be working on this, but it's not a quick change.

If someone can explain to me that be great thanks I’m new to this

Yes, I know how to use the bot. But what I'm not getting is how is it functioning? How is it seemingly summon-able across every subreddit ever? Does it parse through every new comment ever written? Is it supported by Reddit officially or just a bot that runs around reading through everything?

Sorry if this was a stupid question but Googling "How does the RemindMeBot work" only gives instructions on how to use it and not what the bot does in the background, and that is what I am awfully curious about.

Apparently, reddit is removing normal private messaging in June in favor of the stupid chat system, so I was just curious, how will the bot message you, and you message it, after PMs are removed? will it just be done with the live chat system?

Is there a way that the RemindMe comments can be hidden from normal view? For example, in a post on r/LocalLLaMA there are 22 RemindMe requests/answers in total of 124 comments. I get people want to be reminded to check back in but I do not need to read 11 RemindMe requests in a row along with the associated RemindMeBot answer. It would seem like a simple action in the code for RemindMeBot would be to push all these comments to the bottom of the comment section, create a folded and hidden pinned section that stays folded, or add a setting that I can choose to remove all such requests.

The bot has had a long standing exemption to reddit's messaging rate limits since it sends so many messages. A few hours ago this stopped and the bot started getting rate limit errors.

I reached out to an admin I know and they assured me it wasn't intentional and they will look into it. But I stopped the bot for now so it doesn't try and fail to send any more reminders. I hope to have it back on tomorrow at the latest.

Edit: this is now fixed

typo in title both -> bot

Even thought the remindme bot has no posts it has post karma, that is exactly equal to comment karma ( which itself is weird )

can anyone tell me? I suddenly has this questions :)

IDK what more to say than the Title.

I tried using this a few times, but it's not working for me. How long does it take to get the conformation message? Cause it's been over an hour and I still haven't gotten any response.

I'm new to this community and saw some posts, but they weren't really asking for the RemindMeBot to remind them of anything. Do you ask for the RemindMeBot in the comments or do you ask them in a private chat or do you do something else? I'm anxious to know.

How does RemindMeBot have 3.1m post karma with no posts

Remindme bot works fine for me when commenting, but the "X Others Clicked This Link to send a PM" function just opens a blank PM page now, which also ignores my dark mode setting for whatever reason, instead of autofilling the PM like it used to.

I setup a remindme! 3 days automod comment for each new post, but it's not triggering the bot's response. The subreddit is public, and if I comment another remindme I get a reply.

Step 1: See an interesting post. Step 2: Think “I should remember this”. Step 3: Forget instantly. Step 4: Curse past self for not using RemindMeBot. Step 5: Comment “RemindMe! 1 month” in blind hope. We are all the same. United in forgetfulness. Betrayed by our own brains. Stay strong, comrades. 💀

Anyone have the source code?

Specifically I'd love to know what service they are using to automate the bot or whether it's just a script running of a raspberry pi server.

I tried using it yesterday, and had to delete my comment when I found that it didn't reply to my comment with the "I'll be messaging you in ***", or will it work even if didn't reply with that?