Show HN: Find Reddit discussion threads for your TV shows
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To address _a_ particular negative comment in this thread.
1. I am often weary of browsing subreddits for their episode discussions because it's quite easy to see spoilers by using the search field, since it will bring up future discussions of episodes where spoilers are allowed. YMMV but this has definitely happened to me before.
2. Some subreddits conveniently have episodes on their sidebar, some only have for the most recent season, some don't have at all
3. _Sigh_ Yes you could of course do this manually: Hacker news hasn't changed a bit lol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
If this picks up traction it would be great to see an api so that apps like track.tv and others could pull data from reddit discussions in an structured way :)
I initially searched for marvel shows presently in limelight. Loki -> Not available What If -> Not available The Falcon and the Winter Soldier -> Not available Wandavision -> Available
Marvel Shows are more discussed in marvel subreddits like /r/marvelstudios than individual subreddits like /r/wandavision
After sorting out by No of comments only i found out, author of the website has actually grouped them together under Marvel. So Wanda vision Discussions are shown under two places but not linked to each other.
Another one aspect the website fails to capture is the discussions going on in multiple subreddits created for the same TV Show.
For example game of Thrones had individual subreddits for each houses in the show, out of which /r/freefolk was very famous (1M+ Subscribers) and had in depth discussions going on when each episode aired.
I scrolled down to my favorite show and I see you have threads for each episode. Thats exactly how I hoped you would have it organized.
An interesting direction to go with this might be to integrate it with something like Plex or Jellyfin via plugin so that you could see top reddit comments per episode or something like that.
Really cool project. Thanks for sharing.
This confirms that I'm the only person who liked this show.
Alpha House (0 comments, 0 discussions)
A show I hadn't heard of. I watched it the other week after noticing it in its prominent spot on this website, and it was pretty good! Sometimes, decent shows just don't take off on Reddit.
I like Josh Gad, so I'll check out 1600 Penn, then maybe you'll be able to say that you're one of two people who liked the show.
And this happened in reality this past January: [2].
Life imitates art?
[1] https://preview.redd.it/moxs979434841.png?width=960&crop=sma...
[2] https://www.denverpost.com/2021/01/12/lauren-boebert-guns-co...
I would love for the chance to
https://www.redditdiscuss.com/watchmen/
Edit: Maybe this is a better example as it has a valid season number in the actual discussion (but it shows as SnullE6):
``` EastEnders discussion 2020-09-07 - episode 6125 (or series 2 episode 1!) ```
That was parsed as Season 1 Episode 6125 :)
My regexes grew gnarly from occasional tweaks, so I ripped it all out and changed up my process a bit.
At some point mid-collection, I decided to default to season 1 if not mentioned (as many first-season subreddits fails to mention season number), but failed to re-run the parsing on everything.
Just reparsed everything and deployed a new version. That resulted in ~1000 changes, but a cursory glance shows that it's all good changes, so should be much better now!
And it sounds like that was legitimate?
https://www.redditdiscuss.com/eastenders/
Apparently they have 4 episodes/week. And there's been no success in starting regular discussion threads. And if they did, they'd probably prefer one thread per week (covering many episodes). It's quite unintuitive that communities formed around soap operas wouldn't have robust discussion threads. I guess because it'd be a full time job at the rate they release episodes...
https://www.reddit.com/r/eastenders/comments/e3lyjh/episode_...
https://www.reddit.com/r/eastenders/comments/nulg8n/episode_...
> My regexes grew gnarly from occasional tweaks, so I ripped it all out and changed up my process a bit.
Are you still using regex? There was a thread recently about collecting book recommendations from HN comments [1]. The app creator used deep learning and fine-tuned a BERT model with their own data. The results were impressive and I think it could work with unstructured data like yours too. I don't know what's your stack, but anything with Named Entity Recognition (NER) would be a good start.
I really like the lists you compiled. Bookmarked.
> Are you still using regex?
Yup, just in a much better way. I won't bother explaining how it was before, but now: I have a collection of regexes that try to match a "season" and "episode" at the same time. If that fails, I fall back to matching for them separately. If "episode" is not found, I ignore the thread as a possibly related to a specific episode.
If I have further issues with the parsing, I'll consider a whole new approach like you've recommended. But I don't have any experience with that stuff so my first thought is that it'd be overkill.
What are some of your favorite animes? I'll make sure at least those work first.
Of course, I did choose this series because I thought it would be especially likely to have problems, but YMMV.
"5.65" pattern is gonna be tricky, because a few subreddits legitimately use that pattern ... I think I'll be forced to do ignore lists in some cases.
Although the main reason I made it was because I like to read discussion threads after every episode I watch. So I'd google "reddit <show I'm watching> Season .. episode .." _a lot_. And have to tweak the query sometimes to find something. So I made a website.
The website definitely isn't set up to handle multiple shows from a single subreddit, however. The first couple shows listed as Peep Show there are just some new show that David is in.
But I also went right to Peep Show, which I thought would be interesting to see discussions of!
Thinking of ways to automate this part.
Also, "You're obviously an American" comes off as weirdly hostile, which I choose to assume was unintentional.
And whatever this is, does not make sense to me.
1. You can just go to the show's subreddit and browse, or browse with filters such as top, hot, etc. And you can filter the time period.
2. You can use Google. This works great for me. Just type "the wire reddit" or "site:reddit.com the wire", and the first result will be the subreddit page, but if you scroll down, you will start to see threads from other subs as well. This way you can access more discussions outside of the dedicated subreddit.
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In a more general note, you can find all sorts of different stuff by using Google to browse reddit this way.
I have watched quite a few really good movies by searching "your top 5 movies reddit", "your favorite movies reddit", or "best movies reddit". I just go through the past viral threads and find highly upvoted responses, or responses with some of movies I liked and some that I haven't watched.
I have discovered Clue, Primer, Hot Fuzz, Tropic Thunder, The Big Short, etc. this way.
I list out some motivations in a different comment.
Addressing the points: 1) This takes too long. 2) A google search usually works for me too, but not all the time, and sometimes requires multiple attempts. And I'm not trying to land on the subreddit: I want the thread for the exact episode I just watched.