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At least one news post so far has caused the bot to exceed the 10,000 character limit, resulting in a failed comment.

Possibly ask mods to add some CSS to do this. (necessary CSS is on private test sub atm)

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Frequently (always?) fails to send error reports. Possible misuse of Reddit API?

Gaijin seems to like to use tables to organize information (such as in http://warthunder.com/en/news/522-Storm-over-Belgrade-en). Probably should find and convert these tables to Reddit markdown. (Sometimes the formatting change results in confusing content.)

Use formatting: (important that there aren't multiple carriage returns per newline - strip out extras)

Header | Header
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item|item
item|item

Parentheses in links break formatting with Reddit's markdown scheme. Add a regex to find and escape these characters in links with backslashes.

Eg: http://warthunder.com/upload/image/800px-Fw_190_A-8(1).jpg should be formatted as [Image](http://warthunder.com/upload/image/800px-Fw_190_A-8\(1\).jpg) to prevent the link from breaking.

From a management standpoint, it would be nice to log the checked[] list in a text file so that when the bot needs to be restarted, it can be done without worrying about double-posting comments.

(Perhaps it would be better to simply have an --ignore-existing-posts command-line option.)

Just pull out the email address from the link and replace it with the unformatted email address.

Right now this bot relies on someone manually posting news submissions: why not automate that as well?

Gaijin seems to like to go back and change the text of the article after posting it. Probably make a dictionary of article ID's, store a hash of the article text and edit the comment if something changes.

Having an image link for every SL icon seems silly - check for this and replace with plain text.

Apparently YT video ID's can have dashes in them...