Meetings / About this data

Where this data comes from

256,949 weekly meeting sessions, refreshed twice daily · last refreshed 2026-10-17 20:35 UTC

The sources, in order of authority

Every listing here is carried exactly as published by the fellowship itself — we never compose, merge-edit, or invent a meeting.

A.A. — the same Meeting Guide feeds that power A.A.'s own app, published by each intergroup and area on its own website. N.A. — the regional BMLT root servers N.A. service bodies run themselves; each listing's last-updated date comes from that server's own change log, and regional helplines are shown where the region publishes one. C.M.A. — crystalmeth.org's official directory. C.A. — ca.org's directory plus C.A. Alberta's own published schedule.

When two service bodies publish the same meeting (an area and an intergroup often both do), we show it once and keep both records — two independent publishers agreeing is evidence the listing is right.

A.A.

759 of 759 sources healthy on the last refresh

C.A.

39 of 39 sources healthy on the last refresh

C.M.A.

11 of 11 sources healthy on the last refresh

N.A.

90 of 91 sources healthy on the last refresh

What we verify, and what we don't

Every listing is machine-checked on every refresh — all of them, everywhere, not a sample. We check that our copy matches the fellowship's published listing, that map positions look real rather than placeholder pins, that online listings actually carry a joining link, and that the directory each listing comes from is still alive — a source that has gone silent gets flagged, not trusted. Each listing shows when its own fellowship last updated it.

We can't verify that a meeting actually happened last Tuesday — no directory can. But the people who were in the room can: every meeting page carries a one-tap "It still happens" button. Confirmations are positive-only by design — a visitor can vouch that a door is open, but no button on this site can close one; reports that a meeting has ended go through a human. Confirmations fade after about six months, so the question gets asked again, and they never override the fellowship's own data in what we show to search engines. This exists for the meetings that need it most — the church-basement rooms whose schedule lives on a paper poster, kept by people the modern web left behind.

What we can also do is refuse to hide problems: a listing that fails a critical check is withheld from search engines and labelled honestly on the page until its source fixes it. The numbers below are live.

The verified checkmark

A person is what verifies a meeting, and it wears off. A fellowship's listing puts a room on the map; it never makes it green. Nothing is ever hidden or ranked by verification.

✓ Verified — someone was there this month: a visitor tapped "I was here" from near the room, or we reached the group by phone or email, within the last 30 days.

Verify if it's still meeting — the fellowship lists it, but nobody has confirmed it in person in the last 30 days, or ever. This is the honest default for most of the map. It's also what a listing wears when its source hasn't updated it in over a year (the page shows that date) or the directory it came from has stopped answering (the page says so): call before you go. If you're there and it's meeting, one tap turns it green for the next person.

Not yet verified — a meeting sent to us by a member, with no fellowship listing behind it yet. It turns green once 3 people confirm it; after that it runs on the same 30-day clock as everyone else.

Your location is checked against the meeting's area and thrown away — never stored. One tap a month from one homegroup member keeps a room green; that is the whole system. (Until 2026-09-27 a live fellowship feed counted as verification and 3 visitors were needed; a dark room stayed green for weeks that way. Derick's call, after walking to one. From then until 2026-10-04 an old or silent listing nobody had vouched for was red, "May not be running"; since 10-04 it is yellow: not verified, rather than written off (Derick's answer, 10-04).)

Tap "I was here — it still meets" when you attend and you ARE the verification system. To count, we check that your location is in the meeting's state or province — then the coordinates are thrown away, immediately, unstored. No account, and your location is never kept. Your tap is recorded the moment you make it, but for everyone else it shows up a little later: on the map within about a minute, on the meeting's page within about fifteen, because copies of both are kept for a while so the site stays fast for everyone.