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A lot of us have been working with bots for a long time, keyphrase by keyphrase. By now, I believe that we must have developed some sort of wisdom about the process, and about the English language as it relates to conversational AI. It might be hard to articulate these insights, as we are often involved in working with single keyphrases. But perhaps one can think of it this way: what would allow you to take the next step? I ask this not in order to encourage anyone to trash the Forge, but rather to help the Forge evolve.

hey. what does the updated part next to a bot's name mean? i don't understand what the "cool", "warm(#)", or "hot(#)" mean.

If you work on your bot a lot, it's hot. if it's been a while it's warm, if it has sat a while it's cool.

i love these bot holidays!!!!:O they rock!!!

thanks prob123.that makes sense!!!

They'll also show up as "warm" if you make one or two minor changes, but don't do any major work.

i love these bot holidays!!!!:O they rock!!!

Yeah, they do for the first day or two. But when you get stuck on Lithp Day for a week (or more!), it can get to be enough to make grown men weep

Ever go to read your transcripts, and think you made some bad typos, only to find out it was COLD day, or Lisp day.

Prob, you know I do

Guest139/Lauren, please please please get in touch with me! Thanks!!!

Does anyone know anything about getting grants? It seems to me that there must be many foundations out there that would love to subsidize the Forge. But I know nothing about how to actually get a grant.