In my experience, chat feed bots — the ones that post feed messages into the chat directly — are usually pretty fast. Our bot on RPG Stack Exchange reliably has posted new Meta posts to the chat after about 10 minutes.
Recently however they seem pretty slow:
- We're noticing board game's Metagamer chat bot is slowboard game's Metagamer chat bot is slow; a meta post from 22:46 didn't show up until 00:45.
- Literature's Bookworm chat bot has been reliably slow. It recently took 40 minutes to make a postIt recently took 40 minutes to make a post, and it's been like that for agesit's been like that for ages (we've started making jokes about the "worm" name), and some of us are concerned it's slow to the point of missing messagessome of us are concerned it's slow to the point of missing messages.
- In Role-Playing Games I've noticed our Oracle chat bot being slow since December, when it took until 1:13 AM to post a meta from 00:29 AMuntil 1:13 AM to post a meta from 00:29 AM. Mostly though it's been fast, posting our messages within a few minutes like normal.
Is this just coincidence, or temporary, or a deliberate part of how the chat bot works? Right now a few chats are noticing behaviour about it being slow and unreliable and I'm not sure if it's just our imagination or not.