👋 A new face in the server
If you've joined the JenniNexus Discord recently, you've already met Jenni Bot. When someone new arrives, the bot greets them by name with their avatar and member number — and anyone already in the server can tap a 👋 "Wave to say hi" button to welcome them in. It's a small ritual, but it makes the room feel a lot warmer than a silent join notification.
It's also there to make things easy to find. A few commands you can try:
/jenni— what JenniNexus is, with clickable links to everything/socials— every account (YouTube, DIY, gaming, Patreon…) in one tidy card/diy·/diywjenni— DIY content with topic filters for nail art, hair, and fashion/discord— the main invite plus the topic-channel invites/help— a quick rundown of everything the bot can do
/leaderboard because Martian Games has a live leaderboard API. JenniNexus is community-first, so Jenni Bot sticks to greeting and links. Same idea, two personalities.
💬 Discord, wired to the things I'm already doing
The bot is only half of it. The other half is a set of quiet integrations that connect the things I already do — posting on Patreon, shipping site updates — straight into Discord so the community hears about them without me copy-pasting everywhere.
When someone backs the work on Patreon, the server gets a little shout-out automatically. When there's a new update or devlog drop, it can land in the announcements channel the same way. The principle is simple: webhooks send, the bot reacts — Jenni Bot does the greeting and the housekeeping, and the webhooks carry the news.
🤖 The automation underneath (and where it's headed)
All of this runs on a little internal project I've been calling socials — a toolkit that drafts and cross-posts updates across Discord, Patreon, and the blog while keeping the voice and formatting consistent. This very post has two sister versions (a Patreon update and a Discord announcement) generated from the same source so they all say the same thing in the right tone for each place.
It might become a public app — but not yet
Right now socials is private and built around my own brands. The long-term idea is to turn it into a proper app that helps other small creators automate their social posting and community interactions — but it's not there yet. As pieces of it (and the other tools I build) become public and stable, they'll show up at github.com/jenninexus. That's the place to watch as repos open up over time.
🪐 Meanwhile, over at Martian Games
A quick note for anyone following both projects: Martian Games just got its own lightweight news section. Instead of leaning on the same automation repo, the MG site reads from a simple data file of its own — so studio updates can be posted and edited right on the site without a build pipeline in the way. Different tool for a different job: JenniNexus keeps the long-form blog plus the automation cross-posting; Martian Games gets a fast, self-contained news feed. Both ended up easier to keep current, which was the whole point.
✨ And a fresh coat of paint
While I was in here, the site got a visual refresh too — a deeper "aurora" dark mode with a more holographic glass treatment and a proper hero image on the homepage. Same JenniNexus purple-and-pink, just richer. If the site looks a little more alive than last time you visited, that's why.
🧡 Come say hi
The best part of all this is the community itself. A lot of these little improvements started with someone in Discord asking "hey, could you…" — so keep the ideas coming. Hop into the server, run a command, wave at the next person who joins, and if you want to support the work, Patreon keeps the lights on.
More soon. 💜
— Jenni
Gallery
A look at the Discord Content Previewer — Greeter + Commands tab.
/jenni, /socials, and /diy embeds
