I think one post for practice (all of them combined), and one for quali and the race each would be good. Something I'd like this community to avoid that's common on the subreddit is multiple posts for the same thing with virtually the same discussions.

For example there's a post with the top 3 in quali/race, then there's a post with the full classification order. These posts could be considered the same.

Along the same vein, it might be a good idea to avoid posts that could be comments in another threads. For example posts outlining who's out in Q1 or Q2 could just be stickied comments in quali threads, and given there's no limit to how many comments can be on a comments, discussion can remain just as detailed without crowding the feed.

I like to start on a Friday with some beers for free practice, then start ramping up the edibles for quali, maybe a little bump of kanna.

Race day is anything goes. Maybe some gin, with a little weed, more kanna.

I like to experience the race in another dimension so I can watch the highlights on channel 4 (UK) and it all to be fresh and awesome on a Monday

Capeesh?

Or have I misunderstood

Keeping FP1, FP2, FP3, Quali and Race in separate posts would make most sense for me. That way I would have less risks of spoilers. I'm always worried about spoilers since due to time zones and life constraints I usually watch F1 after everyone.

No spoilers in thread titles would be a nice touch. On Reddit I actually avoided r/F1 until post race Monday.

But whatever works for everyone.

As to the format for discussion threads, I'm open to anything. I'd be good all the way from a single race weekend thread, to per-session threads, to combined practice thread + individual threads for quali/race/post-race, or anything in-between.

I do enjoy the post-race thread culture in /r/formula1. The session threads can sometimes be full of hot-take one-liners and hot-heads from during the session. Separating the post-race thread lets the discussion reset when we have time to type things out more completely and have cooled off from the mid-race excitement.

I would go with a Practice Discussion for all FPs a Quali Discussion and a Race Discussion.

A single post would be good. Also a single post with no spoilers in titles. It’s rough trying to avoid any media/social media on race weekends so I don’t see who won quali and race.

I know that it’s pretty popular to share the winner of a race day in a new post in congratulations. I can dream though.

With the current amount of users I would think a single weekend post is enough. But I also understand others' views. Personally I'm open to anything.

AFAIK bots are not really there yet with Lemmy (please advise me if I’m wrong), so I can’t automate posts for each session.

It does look like there's a fairly brand new (first release in April) bot library for lemmy written in Javascript: https://github.com/SleeplessOne1917/lemmy-bot. Not sure how easy it would be to set up and configure, but people are starting to think about them.

Here's the release announcement on lemmy, which includes the author's lemmy account: https://lemmy.ml/post/959280.

There's not a lot of activity here yet. I think that a single post for each whole race weekend would be plenty for now. Hopefully, at some point this place will be so crowded that we need more discussion posts. I'm looking forward to that day. 😄

I think separate threads makes sense even with the current community size. Mostly because they are different things. To me it just makes sense to have practice to be discussed in practice threads, qualy to be discussed in qualy threads. Maybe we don't neeeed a post qualy thread, and then the race and post race threads.

Probably a practice/qualyfing, race and post race post. Prob to start a template