Malcolm!
Your concierge on the Body Doubling Discord. Supporting us on Ko-fi or through Discord gets you join alerts, and with Latté Friend or Siphon Method Coffee Friend, a private room of your own.
☕What each tier gets
Coffee Friend
- 🔔 1 join alert
- No private room
Latté Friend
- 🔔 3 join alerts
- 🚪 A private room for you and up to 5 guests
Siphon Method Coffee Friend
- 🔔 5 join alerts
- 🚪 A private room for you and up to 15 guests
Our moderators get the Siphon Method Coffee Friend perks too, as a thank-you. Every bit of support helps keep the Body Doubling community running.
Or subscribe right inside Discord: open the Body Doubling server's menu and choose Server Subscriptions ($2.99, $4.99 or $9.99 a month). Either way, you get the same perks.
🛎️Getting started
- Pick a tier on Ko-fi, or in Discord under Server Subscriptions.
- On Ko-fi, connect your Discord when it asks. That's how Ko-fi gives you your tier's role on the Body Doubling Discord. If you subscribed in Discord, you get the role automatically.
- That's it. Malcolm! sees your role straight away. Type
/room infoor/alerts listin the server to check what you have.
If your role hasn't shown up after a few minutes and you used Ko-fi, check that Discord is connected in your Ko-fi account. Still stuck? Let us know.
🚪Your private room
With Latté Friend or Siphon Method Coffee Friend, you can open your own voice channel, with its built-in text chat. Nobody else can see it until you invite them. It's a quiet spot for body doubling with your regular crew.
| Type this | What it does |
|---|---|
/room create | Opens your room, with the name you give it. |
/room invite | Lets someone in. Malcolm! welcomes them in the room's chat. |
/room remove | Takes someone off your guest list. |
/room rename | Gives your room a new name. |
/room info | Shows your room, your guests and how many guests you can have. |
/room close | Closes your room for good. |
Good to know
- One room each. You can have one open room at a time.
- Quiet rooms close. If nobody uses your room for 2 weeks, it closes. Malcolm! sends you a heads-up a few days before.
- Renaming. Discord only allows two renames per room every 10 minutes.
🔔Join alerts
A join alert sends you a DM when a particular person joins a voice channel you pick. No more checking the member list over and over to see if your body doubling buddy has turned up.
How it works
- Type
/alerts request, then choose the person and the voice channel. - Malcolm! sends them a private message asking if that's OK. Nothing happens until they say yes.
- If they agree, Malcolm! lets you know, and from then on you get a DM whenever they join that channel. You get one DM at most every 10 minutes, so popping in and out won't flood you.
This is what your friend sees:
| Type this | What it does |
|---|---|
/alerts request | Asks a member if you may be told when they join a voice channel. |
/alerts list | Shows your alerts, with a button to remove each one. |
Good to know
- No answer looks the same as no. If your friend hasn't agreed, Malcolm! just says it isn't active. You can ask about the same channel again after 30 days.
- If their DMs are closed, Malcolm! can't ask them, so nothing is set up.
🛡️Privacy, for everyone
Knowing when someone comes online is personal. Malcolm! was built so that nobody is ever watched without saying yes first, and so that saying no is completely safe.
- Asking always happens in private, never in a public channel.
- Saying no is invisible. The person who asked is never told. To them it looks exactly like you haven't answered.
- You can stop it any time.
/alerts-about-meis free for every member, supporter or not. It shows every alert about you, from Malcolm! and from Silas!, and stopping one is instant. - Malcolm! checks in. Every 3 months he asks whether it's still OK.
❓Questions
What happens if I cancel or my payment fails?
When your tier's role goes away, your join alerts pause and your room gets 3 days' grace. If the role comes back in that time, your room stays and your alerts pick up where they left off.
What if I move to a smaller tier?
Nobody is removed from your room and no alerts are deleted. You just can't add new guests or alerts until you're under the new tier's limit.
Can someone find out I said no to a join alert?
No. Saying no, not answering yet, and stopping an alert all look exactly the same to the person who asked.
Does Malcolm! read our messages?
No. He only sees his own commands and who joins or leaves voice channels. That's all he needs for rooms and join alerts.
