The future of Martine

Hello there 📰 News, here's an important announcement about the future of Martine!
I recommend reading it entirely to understand the current situation with the bot and the upcoming plans.

Martine started as yet another multifunction bot, but I would have never thought it'd become this popular back then.
The popularity came with some issues I wasn't expecting however, I work on maintaining this bot and everything related to it for tens of hours per week, and basically every day, trying to make things going as smooth as possible by adding new features or making things more friendly for users. Although I am not a professional developer or systems/network administrator, this is what I do every day as a hobby for the bot.
Martine is mainly running off of my personal finances right now, with some help from regular donators (big thanks), but to be clear it has always been a net loss. The amount of time spent on this project to keep it running without problems, and the passion I put into this has also always been understated by myself, until recently. Since the beginning, supporting Martine's development with a donation or a subscription never really gave anything major in return, but this is no longer a viable option for the future of the bot as it is now on over 20k servers and counting, and realistically it has not been viable for a while already. All that stated, this means that there will be some changes to Martine this year, giving actual benefits to donators with some cool features currently being developed.

Now please don't start screaming, this does not means that almost everything is going to be locked behind donator gates, that is not the point. This will only be things that actually make sense to have restricted, basically stuff that is more demanding on the bot, to give some examples: music effects (nightcore, bassboost), a bit later some personalisation stuff on a leveling system, higher limits on other stuff not yet determined, or also no vote requirement on commands that ask for it. This is something I've thought about for a while and something I have consulted several people to be sure about how to go about this.

In the meantime, if you use Martine frequently, appreciate the bot, and have extra money to spend, please consider subscribing to the Patreon or donating on the Ko-fi page. (,donate command)
I will give updates about how things will be, and the new upcoming things, so follow this channel or get the 📰 News role in #roles if you want to be aware!
Thanks for reading this message.

Also if you have any suggestion about this, feel free to talk about it in either #suggestions or #general, either will be fine. Thanks.