Hi Admins and Mods! Today we are officially launching Threads, which can help you and your community organize conversations by topic within a channel. Learn more about this feature in our blog here: https://dis.gd/threads-blog Threads are both a new means in which your community can engage in conversation and a new surface to consider when moderating servers. So, we wanted to give you a heads up on what this means for your community: - Threads can be created from any existing message or from the + icon in the chat bar. Learn the basics in the Threads FAQ Help Center Article here: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403205878423 - We have three new permissions to help you fine-tune which members can create threads, and which channels Threads can be made in. Learn more here: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404809613847 - We’re initially slow rolling out Threads on Discord, while we monitor performance, but hope to get it to all servers by end of the week. ⚠️ __**Important**__ ⚠️ For now, Threads will not be enabled by default for Community servers. However, once you get access, you will have a new server settings tab on the web or in your client called “Threads Early Access.” From there, you can turn on Threads by clicking “Enable Threads,” and customize your Thread permissions for your community (e.g. enable in specific channels or disable for certain roles). *Otherwise, on August 17th, Thread permissions will be default-on for all Community servers too. * Happy 🧵ing!

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Thread s is a nice feature. Telegram has it. Glad it's coming to discord

Hey Community Admins & Mods! We’ve got some exciting and important updates that we wanted to share with you today. Hopefully these updates are valuable in helping you build and create world class communities here on Discord. ⭐ __Custom Role Icons__ We’ve just introduced our newest perk to Level 2 Boosting - custom role icons, which gives you a fun way to customize and distinguish roles in your server. You’ll be able to see this new feature on both desktop and mobile, but you’ll need to use desktop to set, change, or delete icons for now! Icons for each role will display in the members list and next to each member's name in chat, and you can see all icons associated with your roles in your user profile within the server. The role icon that shows next to someone's name in chat is from their highest role (according to Server Settings > Roles hierarchy). Have more questions? Check our Help Center article here: https://dis.gd/customroleiconsFAQ __New Boost Level Pricing__ We've reduced the number of boosts for Levels 2 and 3 in Server Boosting by half thanks to feedback from our community. Your servers now need 7 boosts to reach Level 2 and 14 boosts to hit Level 3. It’s possible that at this new price point your server may already be at a new level. You can see what those new perks are under Server Name > Server Boost. 📆 __Coming Soon: Scheduled Events__ We’ve just started to roll out a new feature: Scheduled Events. This will allow you to plan ahead and schedule events in Voice or Stage channels as well as a free-form option for events being hosted outside of Discord (link or address) or in a text channel. This will be rolling out to 100% of servers over the next few weeks so be on the lookout. For more information check out our Help Center article here: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409494125719 __New Discovery Eligibility__ Server Discovery member requirement has now dropped from 7000 to 1000 members. You can go to "Server Settings" > "Discovery" to check if your server is now eligible. __Sunset of Stage Discovery__ Finally, we’ve spent some time assessing our latest feature Stage Discovery and where best to serve our communities moving forward. We have made the decision that we will be sunsetting Stage Discovery starting on October 4th. For more info on why we’ve made this decision and what’s to come for communities for the rest of the year check out our latest blog post here: https://discord.com/blog/whats-next-for-communities-at-discord

Hey Community Admins & Mods! It's time for another update: * 📆 Events feature is now live to all servers* We're excited to share a better way to organize raid nights, study groups, trivia nights, or your next holiday gathering. You'll now be able to create and schedule Events that are directly displayed in your server. Members can RSVP, share, and will also be notified when the event starts. - Events can be in Voice channels, Stage channels, or in a "free-form" location (Twitch link, IRL, a text channel). - Only Members with

Manage Events

permission can create Events. This is default-off, so admins will need to grant it to others. - The Events tab only shows to Members if there is an upcoming event. - Both Community and non-Community servers can utilize Events. - HC Article here: https://dis.gd/events Applications are open for the Discord Partner Program We love to support communities that invest time and effort on Discord—interested in joining the pack? Apply now and get rewarded for creating an engaged community with our Partner Program. https://dis.gd/partnerapps - As a server with Community settings enabled, you can apply in-app on the Partner Program tab if your server meets our requirements. - Once your application is received, your community will be reviewed based on quantitative and qualitative factors to see if it's a great fit for Partnership. Meeting the requirements to apply doesn't guarantee acceptance. - Best of luck to all you aspiring Partners out there! Thanks for reading!

Hey Community Admins and Moderators, 🕐 Timeout feature is now live to all communities We're excited to share a better way for moderators to temporarily stop a member from interacting in their server! Members in timeout will not be able to reply, react, message or join voice for a set period of time. Only Members with

Timeout Members

permission can time others out. This is default-off, so Owners+Admins will need to grant permission to others. Go to "Server Settings" > Roles. Anyone can timeout another member with a role below their own if they have the permission. Members who leave and re-join the server will still be in timeout. Members in timeout need to upgrade to latest client version to see the time remaining in their timeout. You may need to manually update to latest iOS and Android clients. Learn more about this feature here: https://dis.gd/timeout

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Everything has been set up!It's common that you may not want or need all the counters displayed by default. You can turn them off with

m!counter <counter> <on | off>

. Please carefully read the documentation for this command on .

Hello Admin & Mods! Today, we have a new update for slash commands in your servers: Permissions! If you don’t know, slash commands are a new, easier way to use bots on Discord. You might already have some to use—type

/

to find out! With this new system, you can: Control who can use slash commands in your servers Control in which channels commands can be used Sync or unsync commands like channels and categories, making mass management and special cases easy to handle You can find these permissions in Server Settings → Integrations → Pick an app! If the app supports slash commands, you’ll see the UI. ⚠️ If a bot you use has integrated slash commands, the old way of denying the bot Read Messages will not work to moderate commands usage. You’ll need to use this new system to control access. Not sure if your bots support slash commands? Check out in Server Settings → Integrations, or just type

/

! Check out our blog post to learn more and see a detailed walkthrough: https://discord.com/blog/slash-commands-permissions-discord-apps-bots

Hey Admins & Mods, Beginning Wednesday, 6/1 we’re rolling out Text Chat in Voice Channels to Discord. With embedded chat in voice channels, your community can send messages, GIFs, links, memes, etc. to everyone in the voice channel—no more clogging #687068339989905449. We are rolling out Text Chat in Voice Channels slowly to all servers throughout the week. Initially, it will not be enabled by default for servers that have greater than 200 members or are set as a Community Server. But once you have access… You’ll have a new Server Settings tab on the web or your client called Text in Voice. Turn Text Chat in Voice Channels on for your community by selecting Enable. Customize permissions for your community, like enabling in specific voice channels or disabling for certain roles. Most developers of your favorite moderation bots have already updated their instances to monitor Text Chat in Voice Channels! For more details on Text Chat in Voice Channels, read our Help Center article here: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4412085582359 In four weeks, Text Chat in Voice Channels will be automatically enabled for all servers while still respecting your prescribed permissions—but we recommend you enable it early for all your server members to enjoy!

Text Chat in Voice Channels will be enabled automatically for all servers on Wednesday, June 29th and we’ve made it easier for you to moderate the surface with Discord’s AutoMod! Here’s how to make the best of this brand-new feature. Customize your server’s Channel and Role permissions and opt-in to Text Chat in Voice Channels ahead of time. Many of your favorite moderation bots support monitoring Text Chat in Voice Channels and Discord’s new AutoMod can automatically detect and flag undesirable messages and rule-breakers before they are posted; helping you keep conversations clean and giving you time to focus on the fun parts of managing your community: (AutoMod Help Center article here: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4421269296535-AutoMod-FAQ). Debut your new Text Chat In Voice Channels in your next D&D session or movie night. Sit back and enjoy a less chaotic #687068339989905449 with zero context, now that members can send messages within voice channels. For more details on Text Chat in Voice Channels read our Help Center article here: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4412085582359 We can’t wait to see how you make the most of Text Chat In Voice Channels.

Hello Admins & Mods! It’s official. 2022 is the year of communities. That’s why we’ve been investing in ways to make it easier to start, grow, and protect your communities on Discord. Today, we’re unveiling new tools and resources fresh from our labs so let’s dive in. It’s Easy To Keep Your Community And Conversations Clean With AutoMod Meet AutoMod, your new best friend in moderation. Designed to reduce work and stress for moderators, AutoMod comes equipped with keyword filters to help keep your server clean and safe around the clock by automatically filtering out harmful or undesirable messages before they’re posted. Enjoy newfound peace of mind, even when you’re offline. Enable AutoMod in Server Settings > AutoMod. Once the wheels are turning… :dot: Choose from readily available keyword filters or customize your own with lists of words or phrases and the actions AutoMod will take when they’re found in your server. :dot: AutoMod’s keyword filters can automatically detect, block, and alert you of messages containing harmful words or phrases—before they’re ever posted. :dot: Receive alerts from AutoMod when members try to use words from your lists and assign actions like Timeout from the alert itself. :dot: Add Wildcards to your keywords to detect variations of words that partially match those on your lists.

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⇒ A Gibraltar is equal parts es**press**o and milk :dot: It just works™️ on any message sent (i.e., in #text-channels, Threads, Text chat in Voice channels). Check out our Help Center article for all your burning questions. Your friendly AutoMod is raring to go on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and the web app. Don’t delay—employ your AutoMod today! https://dis.gd/cu-automod-blog New Tools To Build Thriving Communities On Discord At Discord, we believe anyone can build a thriving community. We’re excited to share new products and support to help you do so—coming sooner than you think. :dot: Explore a new preview of Premium Memberships, bringing customizability to communities and creators platform-wide! :dot: Meet Community Resources, your one-stop shop for learning how to build your server into a community! Learn to build, engage, grow, and manage a space where anyone can belong. :dot: Chat with your peers in our brand new Discord Admin Community, a space where admins, creators, and community managers can connect. Incredible communities on Discord are built by incredible admins and moderators like you. We can’t wait to do more together.

Hey Admins and Moderators, We've got an update on all things Community today! If you haven't joined our Discord Admin Community… what are you waiting for? Head over to Server Setting > Community overview and join us — we've got a slew of exciting and fun stuff planned that you won’t want to miss out on. 🪴 __*Below is a sneak peek at the Stage events we’ve got cookin’!*__ August 16th: Safety on Discord August 25th: Utilizing Automod in your Community To join our Discord Admin Community, your server will need to hit a few engagement requirements. Once your community reaches the requirements listed , any of your Admins or Moderators with the “Manage Server” permission will be able to join the Discord Admin Community via Server Settings > Community. 📚 __**Community Resources**__ We recently released our Community Resources, a one-stop shop for learning how to build, engage, grow, and manage a space where anyone can belong. New articles, showcases, and more will be added in the future, so be sure to bookmark it for later. If you haven't already taken a peek at some of our content, you can check out the latest video! https://dis.gd/H2M_Your_Discord_Community 🤖 __Apps & Bots__ If your server uses a verified app, the way you send commands has probably changed in the last year - if it hasn’t, it may very soon! Developers of verified apps have been migrating to Slash Commands. The deadline to finish migrating is the end of August, which means on Sept 1, any apps that haven’t finished may have reduced functionality. If you haven’t tried out slash commands yet, type / in your server to see all the commands you have access to. If your favorite app isn’t listed, they may not yet have enabled slash commands. Or, you might need to check out the new permissions system in Server Settings > Integrations. If you run across any issues, you can reach out to individual app developers to find out more. Learn more here:

Hey Admins and Mods! In our mission to help you keep your communities safe and lift some of that moderation work off your shoulders, we’ve set our sights on helping you more easily detect and prevent spam and raids. Today's spotlight introduces new features that help keep your communities cleaner from spam, and a preview into our early plans on building tools to deal with raids. Keep your Community clean from spam with new AutoMod spam filters We know dealing with spammy messages sucks. If only there was a way spammy messages could be blocked from being posted in your channels and threads in the first place… Thankfully, every community’s best friend in moderation - AutoMod - just got buffed with some new spam-cleansing abilities. Enable AutoMod in Server Settings > AutoMod to save hours of moderation work with these new filters: **Block Mention Spam** - Detect and block mention spam and mention raids before they happen to keep chat clean and prevent members in your community from receiving annoying mention notifications and ghost pings. Set your own limit on the number of mentions a message may contain (up to 50). Block Spam Content - Detect and block messages containing text content that has been widely flagged as spam by user reports. Great for blocking unwanted spam like those pesky free Nitro scams, unsolicited advertisements, and invite spam that disrupt your Community's friendly conversations and game nights. Check out our updated AutoMod FAQ help article: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4421269296535-AutoMod-FAQ Our early plans and progress to protect communities from raids We know being raided is one of the worst experiences you and your Community can go through which is why we’re giving you a heads up that we’re exploring ways to better detect and prevent raids before they take place, while making it easier to de-escalate a raid when they do happen. While we’re in the earlier stages of progress here at Discord Labs™, rest assured we’re eager to equip you with effective tools to more easily deal with raids as quickly as we can. So what can you do now? **Report Raids**: You can now directly send us feedback reports when a raid is taking place in your server by going to your Server Dropdown and selecting Report Raid. If your Community is being raided, we encourage you to partner with us in our moderation efforts by reporting the situation as we’ll be regularly reviewing your raid reports to develop tooling that combat raids. Pause invitations to your Community at anytime - You can now pause your invite links for when you want to temporarily prevent people from joining your server without having to revoking your invite links or vanity URLs - just head over to Server Settings > Invites. Because this cuts off the flow of new arrivals, you'll have an easier time halting a raid in progress. It also lets well-intentioned community members trying to join know that the stoppage is temporary, and that soon, they’ll be able to come back to the same link and try again. Learn more about pausing invites: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/8458903738647 *How we’re protecting communities from suspicious links: * To help y’all with the legwork in dealing with messages containing malicious links, we’ve buffed every Community server with a proactive suspicious link filter designed to detect and block messages containing links that are verified to be harmful, such as those leading to malware or phishing sites that try to steal people’s personal or financial information. We’ll be continuously working on identifying links that might mislead or redirect users by reviewing a regularly updated list of unsafe and phishing websites: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/7326747355159-Why-was-my-message-not-delivered-

Hey Admins and Mods, Y’all ready for some of that ~ juicy ~ product news? After a bunch of testing, we’re excited to begin rolling out Forum Channels across Community servers! Forum Channels are a new type of channel that provide a dedicated, organized space for conversations. Since conversations are contained in individual posts, your members can browse topics before jumping in—without worrying about breaking up or getting in the way of other on-going conversations. If you’ve been waiting for this news in anticipation and are ready to dive right in, go right ahead and click that Create Channel button. You’ll see that forum channels are now an option for you. Want to do a bit more deep thonking and research around how to best use Forum Channels before diving in? The following article on our Community Resources site will guide you on your journey to reaching forum Valhalla:

Hey Admins and Mods! Reach for the stars with new revenue tools for creators and communities on Discord. Server Subscriptions available in the US! Customize tiers, offer exclusive paid content, and meet future subscribers with Promo Pages—all while providing as much of a free experience to your community as you want. (https://dis.gd/CUServerSubs) Server Subscriptions are only available in the US. Join our waitlist to be notified if they're available in your area. (https://dis.gd/ServerSubsWaitlist) Private Threads are now available to all! Your community no longer needs to have Server Boosting to Level 2 to use Private Threads. Improvements to Server Insights! Dates should be more accurate. Conversations in Forum Channels will contribute to Engagement metrics, and now you can see joins via Student Hubs, Integrations, and Bots. The requirement to be a Communicator has been increased from 1 to 3 messages sent per week. This only applies to the Engagement tab and doesn’t impact Partner requirements. Forum Channels now with Gallery View! Gallery View gives posts in image-heavy Forum Channels like #fanart and #pet-pics room to shine - easily toggle between List View and Gallery View at any time. With this update, Forum Channels are now officially available on all Community servers! AutoMod keeps getting better! Alongside more Custom Rules, we’ve added Allowlists to your custom rules! Messages containing anything you’ve added to your Allowlist will not be flagged by AutoMod. We’ve also added the ability to filter messages using RegEX in your custom rules. () Enjoy your new tools, everyone!

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Hey Admins and Mods, Beginning on March 31, over the next several weeks we will start to roll out a new feature called Soundboard. This feature will let users upload custom short sounds to their servers, and then use those sounds to communicate in Voice Channels. Click here to learn more about soundboard: To help you keep your server safe, we have already released some new permissions around Soundboard. You can now access and configure these permissions directly from Server Settings: - Use Soundboard: Determines who in your server is able to use soundboard. - Manage Expressions: Determines who in your server is able to upload and manage sounds. Visit the help center article linked above to read more about Soundboard permissions! Peace and Love, Discord Team

Hey Admins and Mods, Beginning on March 31, over the next several weeks we will start to roll out a new feature called Soundboard. This feature will let users upload custom short sounds to their servers, and then use those sounds to communicate in Voice Channels. Click here to learn more about soundboard: To help you keep your server safe, we have already released some new permissions around Soundboard. You can now access and configure these permissions directly from Server Settings: - Use Soundboard: Determines who in your server is able to use soundboard. - Manage Expressions: Determines who in your server is able to upload and manage sounds. Visit the help center article linked above to read more about Soundboard permissions! Peace and Love, Discord Team

Hey Admins and Mods, Since 2015, every Discord username has been cAsE sEnSitIvE and had a number attached to it called a discriminator (e.g., #0001). This lets you have the same username as someone else as long as you have different discriminators or different case letters. However, this also means you have to remember a set of 4-digit numbers and account for case sensitivity to connect with your friends. ✨**We wanted to make it easier for you to identify and add your friends while preserving your ability to use your preferred name across Discord. So, we are removing discriminators and introducing new, unique usernames and display names.** ✨ 💠 New usernames are lowercase, alphanumeric, limited to certain special characters, and do not have discriminators, making them easier to remember, read, type, and share. Now, rather than having to remember “PhiBi#8936,” you just say “I'm phibiscool” and that’s it. Your new username will be unique to you, and when friends try to add you there won’t be any mistakes of the wrong discriminator or incorrect letter casing. 💠 Display names are what’s shown both to your friends and in communities. Think of them as server nicknames that work globally across Discord. You can change it whenever you want, and it can be whatever you want, including special characters, as long as it follows our Community Guidelines . If a username you were eyeing gets taken before you can claim it, no worries — you can still use it as a display name. 📩 __When you’re eligible to change your old username and claim a new username, you’ll be notified in-app. The older your Discord account, the sooner you will become eligible to pick a new username. 📩__ Visit our blog to hear from one of our founders about why usernames are changing. To learn more about usernames and display names, check out our Help Center Article for all the details.