Probably don’t need a lot of them yet, their need grows with the size of the community. Get into the millions and they become 100% necessary to preserve basic function of your sub, otherwise conversation gets splintered into a bunch of mini threads and dies off from lack of engagement, because mini threads suck.

But, draft. SuperbOwl run-up. That’s about it off the top of my head.

Don’t want too many early on, because there’s a balance where you want people making threads, so the community gets more exposure. Though I guess this sub probably won’t suffer from a need for exposure, now that I think about it. But a little more can still be nice to boost growth early on.

Not really a thread recommendation, but the thing I really miss here relative to Deddit is some easy-to-configure notion of which team I support. It doesn’t have to be the same flairs that other place has even a text banner would do. But I think my jokes about Aaron Rodgers conducting a season-long Darkness Retreat in New Jersey would go over much better if you can see my Bills fandom whenever I post.

Maybe it’s a Lemmy feature I just haven’t found, though.

The NFL Draft, also Combined NFL Power Rankings.

Heya - I should be able to get the game thread bot up and running in the next couple of weeks, though maybe not for the first preseason game.

I don’t think we really need scheduled threads for anything else yet, given that most are designed to prevent post traffic overload. That’s not really a problem here yet :)

Redzone game threads for sure!

But yeah other than what was already said, I don’t think we need much more right now.