Issue #8 · May 6, 2026
A weekly read on meetings, recovery, and the news.
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| Share a Meeting in One Tap |
We love our new share meeting button! |
Every meeting card on the homepage, your Dashboard, and your Saved Meetings page now has a Share button next to the heart. Tap it and your phone's share sheet opens with:
- A clean GAmeetingFinder graphic for the meeting
- The day and time in your timezone
- The Zoom link
- The passcode — if the meeting has one
Send it to a friend, a sponsor, a sponsee, or someone you used to gamble with. The hardest part of recovery is the first meeting; the second-hardest is bringing someone with you. We built this so you don't have to copy and paste.
| Where to find it: small share icon, top-right of every meeting card, right next to the heart. Works the same way on every page that lists meetings. |
| Late-Night Meetings, Fixed |
If you've ever opened the site late at night and a meeting that should have been live wasn't showing in the Live Now strip, this was likely the cause: meetings that ran past midnight (a 10 PM CT meeting that goes to 11:30 PM, for example) were occasionally being missed by the live-now check. Now patched — if a meeting is happening, it'll show up.
| From Our Desk |
Original · gameetingfinder.com
Predatory by Design: When Self-Exclusion Becomes a Sales Funnel
We dug into something that had been bugging us for a while: people who voluntarily sign themselves onto state self-exclusion lists are getting marketed back to by the same operators they tried to escape. Across r/problemgambling and r/gamblingaddiction, we kept seeing the same story — "I self-excluded and now I'm getting more push notifications than ever." We wrote up what we found.
| News |
The Washington Post
Senators ban themselves from participating in prediction markets
An unusual self-imposed guardrail from the Senate — bar its own members and staff from prediction markets — that arrives while the regulatory authority over those same markets is still being fought over in court.
Slate
A Slate columnist in recovery responds to The Atlantic's viral gambling story
A writer in recovery takes The Atlantic to task for funding a $10,000 gambling experiment by one of its own writers — arguing the magazine prioritized virality over the wellbeing of someone they were watching slip into addiction in real time.
Times of San Diego
Prediction markets say they're different from sportsbooks. Gambling addicts say it's all the same.
Prediction-market companies argue their platforms are regulated as financial markets, not gambling. Addiction specialists report seeing identical compulsive-gambling cycles in patients regardless of which platform they used.
| More From the Research Desk |
This week the research page picked up:
- Three more news stories on top of the three above
- Seven new educational videos in the video library
- Three new research shorts for fast skim-reading
If you want to argue with what's there, send what's missing, or flag something we got wrong — [email protected].
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