Comment by [deleted] on 06/07/2019 at 00:42 UTC*

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Some feedback if you don't mind.

I just received a reminder, link was like this: `https://www.reddit.com/message/messages/[id-here]`

Well turns out that on mobile (Reddit is Fun) it doesn't work right away. I'm send to the in-app browser where I have to login again...

Me, I'm lazy, so I just checked the id and went looking for it in my messages.

Turns out it led me to a message *I* sent to the RemindMeBot. Then I had to click on the Reddit link I previously sent to see what I wanted to be reminded of.

So anyway what I'm trying to say is, doesn't it seem like we're jumping through hoops, here?

Couldn't the bot parse the PM for a link and sent it back to me when the time comes?

Just a thought, make of that what you will. And thank you for your work! :-)

Edit: I do realize that as is it's convenient if you want to leave yourself a text message, but maybe it's worthy of a condition?

If link exists -> send link at given time

Else -> send link to message at given time (or maybe just plain text?)

Something like that.

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Comment by Watchful1 at 06/07/2019 at 01:03 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

The bot stores two pieces of information with each reminder. The source of the reminder, in this case the message link, and the message it detects in the reminder. It only detects that something is the message if it's surrounded by [] or "", otherwise it can't figure out for sure what you want the message to be and just doesn't store anything as the message. If you click the link in one of the bots comments, it should prefill in the message with the link to that comment in [], so the final reminder should have a link directly to the comment.

So it depends on what the message you sent was. Also, all bets are off if it was a reminder sent to the old version of the bot, from before this post was created 9 days ago. Since it did a lot of things slightly differently.