Remove community Discord server

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -157,7 +157,6 @@ jobs:
     if: failure()
     env:
       SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
-      DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL }}
       REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
       REF: ${{ github.ref_name }}
       RUN_URL: ${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}
@@ -167,8 +166,3 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           payload=$(jq -cn --arg t ":x: *CI failed* · \`${REPO}\` · \`${REF}\` — ${RUN_URL}" '{text: $t}')
           curl -fsS -X POST "$SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "$payload"
-      - name: Post Discord notification
-        if: env.DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL != ''
-        run: |
-          payload=$(jq -cn --arg c ":x: **CI failed** · \`${REPO}\` · \`${REF}\` — ${RUN_URL}" '{content: $c}')
-          curl -fsS -X POST "$DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "$payload"

.github/workflows/firmware-release.yml

@@ -142,16 +142,3 @@ jobs:
           fi
           payload=$(jq -cn --arg t ":x: *Firmware build failed* · \`${REPO}\` · \`${REF}\` — ${RUN_URL}" '{text: $t}')
           curl -fsS -X POST "$SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "$payload"
-      - name: Post Discord notification
-        env:
-          DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL }}
-          REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
-          REF: ${{ github.ref_name }}
-          RUN_URL: ${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}
-        run: |
-          if [ -z "$DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL" ]; then
-            echo "DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL not set, skipping Discord notification"
-            exit 0
-          fi
-          payload=$(jq -cn --arg c ":x: **Firmware build failed** · \`${REPO}\` · \`${REF}\` — ${RUN_URL}" '{content: $c}')
-          curl -fsS -X POST "$DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "$payload"

README.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 **Your self-hosted [StackChan](https://github.com/m5stack/StackChan) robot assistant — kid-minded by default, hackable by design, private by architecture.**
 
-> ⚠️ **Heads up: this is not a stable project yet.** Dotty is buggy, frequently broken, and actively changing day-to-day. End-to-end behaviour works on the maintainer's hardware but regressions land all the time, the API and config surface shifts without notice, and a fresh deploy on someone else's gear has not been verified. Treat this as a hobby-grade work-in-progress, not a polished product. Bugs, PRs, and "this didn't work for me" issues all very welcome. 🍺☕ If you do try a fresh end-to-end deploy, please get in touch — I'll buy you a beer or a coffee. The best place to ask questions, get help, or show off a build is the [Dotty community Discord](https://discord.gg/SVnkfkH4Gh).
+> ⚠️ **Heads up: this is not a stable project yet.** Dotty is buggy, frequently broken, and actively changing day-to-day. End-to-end behaviour works on the maintainer's hardware but regressions land all the time, the API and config surface shifts without notice, and a fresh deploy on someone else's gear has not been verified. Treat this as a hobby-grade work-in-progress, not a polished product. Bugs, PRs, and "this didn't work for me" issues all very welcome. 🍺☕ If you do try a fresh end-to-end deploy, please get in touch — I'll buy you a beer or a coffee.
 >
 > **Known rough edges:** face emoji rendering is missing visual differentiation for 4 of 9 emotions (sad / surprise / love / laughing); sound-direction localizer has a hardware-AEC-related left-bias on M5Stack CoreS3 (energy detection works, direction is unreliable); kid-voice ASR accuracy on SenseVoice has a kid-speech gap that whisper.cpp will close in a follow-up.
 
@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ Then:
 - [`docs/quickstart.md`](./docs/quickstart.md) — 15-minute happy path: flash, configure, first turn. Includes placeholder substitution table, deployment layout, endpoints, reboot survival, and common ops snippets.
 - [`docs/troubleshooting.md`](./docs/troubleshooting.md) — symptom-first lookup for common (and obscure) failure modes.
 
+## Support
+
+Questions, bugs, or "this didn't work for me" → [open a GitHub issue](https://github.com/BrettKinny/dotty-stackchan/issues). That's the best way to reach me. Occasional updates also go up on [r/stackchan](https://www.reddit.com/r/stackchan/).
+
 ## Deeper reference
 
 For what the stack *is* underneath — hardware specs, protocol docs, model facts, and features we aren't using — see [`docs/`](./docs/README.md):

ROADMAP.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ v0.1 is the first tagged release — early-feedback alpha. Everything in this li
 - **Single-host deployment** -- all four server services (xiaozhi-server, dotty-pi, dotty-behaviour, bridge.py) run as Docker containers on one machine
 - **`make setup` wizard** -- interactive first-run: name your robot, fetch models, validate config
 - **MkDocs Material docs site** -- architecture, protocols, quickstart, troubleshooting, FAQ
-- **Kid Mode channel routing** -- voice channels are kid-safe by default; the kid-mode sandwich (English-pin, emoji prefix, topic blocklist, jailbreak resistance) only applies when the inbound `channel` is in `VOICE_CHANNELS`, so messaging-platform channels (Discord, Telegram, etc.) skip it automatically
+- **Kid Mode channel routing** -- voice channels are kid-safe by default; the kid-mode sandwich (English-pin, emoji prefix, topic blocklist, jailbreak resistance) only applies when the inbound `channel` is in `VOICE_CHANNELS`, so messaging-platform channels (Telegram, etc.) skip it automatically
 - **`/xiaozhi/admin/*` endpoints** -- live-session control surface on xiaozhi-server: `set-state`, `set-toggle`, `set-face-identified`, `set-head-angles`, `inject-text`, `abort`, `take-photo`, `play-asset`, `songs`, `say`, `devices`. See [`architecture.md`](https://brettkinny.github.io/dotty-stackchan/latest/architecture/#admin-surface-two-services-two-prefixes)
 - **Smart-mode** -- smart-mode flips ambient/behaviour only. The inner-loop **model-swap is v2 scope and not wired** on the live `PiVoiceLLM` path. (The instant in-process model-swap once provided by the now-removed `Tier1Slim` provider — added in `b73f583`, removed in the 2026-05-29 alignment pass — is gone.)
 - **llama-swap voice/coding matrix** -- `qwen3.5:4b` (voice inner loop) + `qwen3.6:27b-think` (think_hard target) co-resident under the `voice` matrix set; `qwen3.6:27b` for `pi` CLI runs alone under `coding`. See [`cookbook/llama-swap-concurrent-models.md`](https://brettkinny.github.io/dotty-stackchan/latest/cookbook/llama-swap-concurrent-models/)