As always, thank you for being a part of the community! We have a handful of exciting updates from the past few months to share with everyone today. If you’re not already a member of our online Discord community, please join us today!
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Thank You to Our Donators
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the following new and repeat donators: Sarah B., will-o’-the-wisp, and teacups. Special thanks to our new long-time supporters: Sean, awendela, John, and Philipp.
Thank you as well to the rest of our current monthly supporters: Agnosia, rudra, Peru S., m sea, Nineven, Ronald, Anthony A., Sandy S., mind exploration, rustybikes, acidjames, Krish, and Candace.
Meditation Mind operates 100% on donations, so this community would not be possible without you. See a full list of present and past supporters here.
Community Milestones
On October 18th, our community finally reached 10,000 members! Congrats to asmallpanda on being number 10,000, and thank you to all of our members for making this such a special place.
Roughly three weeks later, on November 7th, the server turned 8 years old. While we have not officially celebrated either of these milestones yet, we do have something fun in store, so stay tuned!
Channel Updates
For a very long time, #mindful-discussion served as our primary on-topic general discussion channel. In fact, it’s where you’ll find the first message ever posted on the server! However, due to a tendency for abstract, rather than practical, discussion to dominate the space, we decided to dedicate it to such discussion, rebranding it as #deep-dive and moving it to the “Meditation” category.
As a replacement, #practice-discussion has been added as a new space devoted exclusively to practice-centric discussion. Due to its positioning, this is one of the first channels new members will see, and for those new to meditation and mindfulness, we feel this has far less potential to be disorienting. If the channel is not already in your channel list, head over to Channels & Roles to enable it.
Finally, we have made some slight adjustments to the channel description for #the-lounge to emphasize that—despite its casual, off-topic nature—it is still meant to align with the overall friendly and wholesome atmosphere of the community. It is also not a suitable place for venting, and we ask that members be mindful of not dominating the space with serious, on-topic discussion that would be more appropriate elsewhere.
Odds and Ends
Our Free Meditation and Mindfulness Apps page has been updated, once again, with some great general mindfulness and well-being apps. We also added The Way, which is a paid journey-style meditation app, but we love it enough to make an exception.
We noticed that #practice-guide never actually mentioned what meditation is and why you might want to try it out. That has been rectified (albeit very briefly).
Dyno offers a number of helpful custom commands that were previously undocumented: ?resources for commonly requested resources, ?crisis for mental health crisis resources, and ?engagement for skillful engagement resources. These commands are now included in the pinned message in #bot-commands.
And that’s it for our December update. If you have any feedback or suggestions, feel free to get in touch via @ModMail or /suggest!
