Hello awoofriends and family! Thank you for your support over the last two months - it means a lot to us all!

First off, some staff updates:

As of the end of January, Crow is no longer a mediator with the staff. He needs a break from social media writ large, and is doing his best to take care of himself.

We wish you the best, Crow! You've been a fantastic mediator.

Because of this, we actively begun searching for new mediators and we have two candidates at the moment we're considering bringing aboard. We're not sure if we want two more or only one more, so look forward to an announcement this month!

Now, for art news: Last month's commission were a set of emojis Kyra made! We hope you love Jani's face showing up.

https://awoo.space/web/statuses/99329028596204683

As for this month, Kyra has been putting a lot of extra effort in to show off Jani piloting a mech! If you thought they were just a social guardian of the land, are you ever in for a surprise!

Keep an eye open for @official_art to post it soon!

In technical news, we upgraded over to the glitch.social fork! We're extremely happy to have done this as glitch.social has a great set of developers whose focus is oriented on building tools to make the site both more customizable as well as building on top of Mastodon's privacy and safety tools to make for a better experience for us.

It's been great so far, and I hope I can give back to them some day what they've helped us with!