News from Martine.
Announcements, updates, the story behind Martine, and what happened when something broke.
Earlier posts
2019
- Incident write-ups
Music: keyword search and SoundCloud are back
The new music setup is live: keyword search and SoundCloud are back, with fixes.
- Incident write-ups
A change to fight YouTube bans
Searching by keyword is off for now to avoid bans; play from a link instead.
- Announcements
Giveaways go on
While music is down, the December giveaways carry on.
- Incident write-ups
Music outage: more YouTube bans
YouTube is banning music bots harder; audio is disabled until a better solution is ready.
- Announcements
Happy Thanksgiving 2019
Happy Thanksgiving from Martine.
- Announcements
Giveaways every day in December
Daily giveaways of 5,000 marts all December, Nitro on Christmas and New Year's Day, and 24/7 Christmas music.
- Announcements
New rules and self-roles
The support server has new rules, in English and French, and roles you can pick with a reaction.
- Incident write-ups
A 15 minute maintenance
Martine went offline for a planned maintenance of about fifteen minutes.
- Announcements
Holiday artwork and a giveaway
Martine wears her Christmas sweater in a new artwork by Rinza, and a giveaway of 5,000 marts starts.
- Incident write-ups
Spotify is disabled for now
Spotify on Martine is off until further notice, with no date yet.
- Incident write-ups
Slow responses fixed
Autoporn was slowing the bot down; it is fixed, and NSFW and autoporn are back.
- Behind the scenes
Martine turns one
One year of Martine: over 7,000 servers and 700,000 users, and thanks to everyone who helped.
- Incident write-ups
Code blocks are back to normal
Discord reverted its code block change.
- Incident write-ups
Discord's new embed and code block style
Discord changed how embeds and code blocks look; the most used commands were updated to match.
- Updates
Rocket League stats
New commands for Rocket League stats on Steam, Xbox One and PS4, made by Jackuczys.
- Updates
Turn categories on or off, and more
Disable whole categories of commands, turn off vote DMs, four vote-locked commands, faster audio and fixes.
- Incident write-ups
Music node banned, then back
YouTube banned the music node overnight; after a reboot, Martine and music are back.
- Updates
Choose categories for autoporn
Autoporn can now post only the categories you pick.
- Announcements
Happy Halloween 2019
Happy Halloween from Martine's staff; the event ends in about a day.
- Announcements
More about Discord's new boosts
A link to Discord's article on the new boost perks.