I haven't posted here since the day of the Skool Games. Instead of the Skool News, this week we got the Skool Games Mastermind. I'll just tell you right now, it was REALLY COOL. (The Skool Games AND the Mastermind.) I didn't think I could love Skool any more. But here's what happens... Every time I think I've hit the limit for how much I love Skool: - Another episode of the Skool News comes out - A new feature is released - I meet more nice real humans on here - I go and then MEET the Skool team and see that they are literally exactly as expected IRL: they really freaking care. SO that last thing... GAH... you guys... the Skool team is full of a bunch of Care Bears who are as obsessed with Skool as I am (I would say "even more obsessed than I am", but honestly I just think Skool is the most amazing software that ever existed, especially for creating community). THIS LOVELY VIDEO is from the mastermind with Sam Ovens (CEO of Skool) and Alex Hormozi (Skool investor, amongst other bits of course)... If you click on or go to about 1 hour and 45 minutes in, I got to ask a question AND profess my love for Skool. What a sweet life moment! BUT I recommend watching the whole video...! This was a pretty cool room to be in, to say the least! There's a lot to learn... it's amazing that they share the recording!

OK... who else cried on Skool News? Sam & Kirby had tissues ready (THEY KNEW!). I just sat here with tears in my eyes but kept on flowing to type up the recap. The "best post ever" below is the one that got us all crying! NEW FEATURE: SPAM RISK SCORE This is already live! (personal note: my main community is freemium, this has been a HUGE help already!!) ROADMAP/IN PROGRESS: - Risk Score is now at V1, more is coming soon. Huzzah! LOVE YOU SKOOL! - Notification improvements. A lot of people complain about notifications. The more groups and interactions, the more notifications. They're working on it tho! - Traffic Sources: Where are people coming from? This is a HUGE project. No one has ever had THIS level of visibility. Working on it for 6 months at this point. Estimated release date is early February. Will even show conversion rates from one source to another! ROADMAP/UP NEXT: - Moderation tools. Will give us the option to auto-approve low-risk members! Also working on SMS confirmation to be able to post in a community (as an OPTION) - Page load speed. The more people who use Skool, the slower it gets. (It's growing fast! "Every two weeks, Skool grows by more than it did in its first four years!" ~Sam) ("The lesson there is just 'don't quit!'" ~Andrew Kirby) ("Inspiring!"~Sam) ("Thanks!"~Kirby) - Languages incoming on Discovery SKOOL OF THE WEEK! (see screenshots) - Gert Leroy with the Underwater Squad - He's super rocking tiers with $3k MRR ($9 entry point + upgrades) - Super cool to see this --> he's got the Skool link EVERYWHERE! - "Gert! What a man!" ~Kirby "BEST POST EVER"(!!!!) (see screenshots) - Shout out to Glyn Dewis (Photography Community + Photography Creative Circle) - His community made this stinkin' amazing video for him. THIS is what made us all cry! FIND IT HERE* (*you must be a member of Skoolers to see this post, but the video is shred inside the YouTube video attached to this post)

When you're in a community that you don't set the "rules", and someone responds with a straight up AI comment, how do you respond? (We're talking, no human to be found...) My personal challenge with this mix is that: 1/ it's crystal clear when it's AI 2/ I didn't start a conversation with ChatGPT 3/ there's a human who stuck the comment there 4/ I don't want to be rude to the human 5/ but it feels just really messed up that the human isn't there in the comment This is especially weird when I've seen the same human around, with actual human comments. I'm 🤖 navigating this 🤖 journey that's 🤖 unfolding while 🤖 cultivating real AF 🤖 lived experience and an 🤖 evolving tapestry with... Let's be honest here. I'm sitting here with almost zero patience for how weird AF it feels when the comments sound like that but worse because they weren't written by a human making fun of the ridiculousness that humanity is dealing with. They are shared by a human who didn't show up for the conversation, and yet I still want to be thoughtful toward the human... who is in there SOMEWHERE. [this was originally posted in Connect & Collab. With 172 comments, this conversation was LIT! 🔥]