Forum:Automated Happenings Template

As Zodiaque and I discussed here I think we should find a way to automate the happenings template on the main page since it tends to be weeks out of date. When I updated it today, the manga section was one chapter behind and the anime section was three or four episodes behind. This wouldn't happen if we made it automatically update. 07:05, April 27, 2014 (UTC)

Too much automation isn't good, we can easily do it manually, as long as someody cares about it. 08:50, April 27, 2014 (UTC)

The problem is that people (including me) forget and the template gets out of date. Why don't we do a trial run to see if automating it causes any problems. If there are any issues it would be easy to go back to manually updating it. 17:19, April 27, 2014 (UTC)

No one else has anything to add? 00:55, April 30, 2014 (UTC)

I'm no expert in coding, but I think it would be pretty much impossible to automate it. Automation can't account for breaks, etc. 01:15, April 30, 2014 (UTC)

Zodiaque found a way to automate it here. It's not perfect but it looks like it's possible since the template only needs the most recent chapter and episode. 02:37, April 30, 2014 (UTC)

I also said I was against it... This is the kind of thing that's really easy to do manually, the only problem is people not caring. It would take less effort to just do it manually every week then to have to fix the automation whenever it breaks (and no, that's not my job). 09:30, April 30, 2014 (UTC)