Yes, I thought about that as well. Ideally I would like to have links to each comment in the post, but due to the way that Lemmy does links to posts and comments, I can't link to them or else people will be pulled to lemmy.ca, and if their account is from any other instance, they won't be logged in, so they can't interact, which defeats the purpose.

That said, you can minimize the comments for the games you aren't watching. lemmy-ui (the default web browser one) and mlmym (old.lemmy.ca) will unfortunately keep unminimizing them each time you refresh, but many apps don't. For example, I use Voyager on my phone, and that one keeps the minimized comments minimized on refresh. Hopefully that's an improvement or option we can ask for from some of the major UI developers.

Maybe once there's more activity we can revisit individual posts for more targeted discussion.

Absolutely, that's what I'm hoping for. I'm even thinking about keeping it with the current format for the playoffs, when there are fewer games per day and likely more engagement.

Actually, if we want to talk about details, the way I was thinking about doing it was having what types of games were posted in which way settable in the environment file. So for now, we could have preseason and regular season set to comment posts, then have postseason games set to one post per game. The reason for that is maybe we grow and we decide we like having regular season and post season as one post per game and only preseason as comment posts, but another community, say !hockey@lemmy.world wants to use the same bot, but they aren't big enough to have enough interaction to want one post per game, they could find tune it for whatever works for their community size. And if they grow, they can easily switch it without needing to touch actual code.

Having a link to the community is a good idea. I was originally thinking linking to the posts from the other community in a once daily post, but that won't work due to how Lemmy handles links to posts. But Lemmy handles links to communities just fine.

This is definitely a more viable option than what I was originally thinking for having the GDTs out of the community. I would ideally like to have it as part of this community if possible, so I'm thinking of this more as a backup if one post per day is still too much.