Hey Mods and Admins,

We're here with an update to make it more clear how we categorize the different types of servers, how to recognize them, and what you can expect in those spaces.

💠 Friend Server
Friend Servers are invite-only spaces designed to discuss, connect, and share with your friends or smaller groups. Invite links in Friend servers will expire at a maximum of 30 days, though previously created non-expiring links will remain active and functional.

Friend Servers who wish to have access to Community features https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047132851-Enabling-Your-Community-Server may opt-in to become a Community Server at any time in server settings.

💠Community Server
Community Servers are spaces designed for people to share, connect, and learn from others all over the world who share common interests. Moderators in Community Servers have access to tools like Server Insights, Raid Protection, Rules, and Onboarding.

Becoming a Community Server does not mean that anyone can find or join your server. Prospective members have to be sent an invite link.

💠Updating Server Badging
In order for users to know what type of server they’re in, we’ve introduced badges for Community Servers.

We will display a distinct server badge if the server is a
* Community Server
* Discoverable Community
* Partnered Server
* Verified Server

Hovering over the badge will provide more detailed information about the server type, whether anyone can join the server, and the Boost level. Communities that previously had the “Public” tag will now have a “Discoverable Community” badge (denoted by a globe).

For more information on our approach to safety across server types, please visit our Safety Center. https://discord.com/safety/360043709612-our-policies

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 https://discord.com/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 https://discord.com/blog/usernames 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 https://dis.gd/usernames for all the details.

Discord a while ago added the ability to do what we do, with our “Our server options” chat, but embedded within discord instead of using a bot. Due to this I wanted to bring a question to this community to get some feedback on our next steps.

Should we start switching over to discords new embedded system or continue using our bot for server management?

✨Keep what we have, it works why change?

🤩Switch to discords new version because it’s good to keep up with new tech!

(Other): suggestions chat linked below:
https://discord.com/channels/412657478141083649/432903254469246976

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: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/12612888127767-Soundboard-FAQ#h_01GTYZSTZQV1GXSRVX1A420WPX

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

1940 – Six high-ranking members of the Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.

1942 – World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.

1943 – First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft.

1944 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.

1946 – Cold War: Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.

1953 – Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.

1960 – Indonesian President Sukarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.

1963 – American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.

1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.

1966 – BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.

1970 – The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.

1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.

1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.

1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 11⁄2 million units around the world.

1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus.

1991 – Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 108 crashes in Venezuela, killing 45.

1993 – Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 crashes at Skopje International Airport in Petrovec, North Macedonia, killing 83.

2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.

2012 – Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar.

2018 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pause the Deir ez-Zor campaign due to the Turkish-led invasion of Afrin.

2021 – Pope Francis begins a historical visit to Iraq amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

2021 – Twenty people are killed and 30 injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Featured Event

Boston Massacre

Harassed by a mob, British troops on this day in 1770 opened fire, killing Crispus Attucks and four others in the Boston Massacre, an event that galvanized anti-British feelings in the lead-up to the American Revolution.

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. (https://dis.gd/RegEXHC)

Enjoy your new tools, everyone!

Announcing Server Subscriptions and the Creator Portal, Now Open to...

Creators and community leaders can now learn and earn with Discord: Today, we’re expanding the availability of Server Subscriptions, allowing existing creators to now earn directly on Discord. Learn how to use these new features with our Creator Portal, a one-stop-shop for education and inspiration.

would you be interested in some Zellonia Discord events?

Examples:
- brainstorming party for lore/mechanics
- “Break the discord” finding any bug with the server.
- 21+ events like a drinking 1 shot of Zellonia. Where anyone can watch but only 21+ can join in.
- Community time, this could be a non Zellonia game/movie/art night to help grow our connections with our community.
- other suggestions welcome.

If you are at all interested in any of these event please react to this message. Hopefully we can get something fun scheduled.

As always thank you for being here an supporting Zellonia✨

YouTube, Highlights, Premium Gifting, Automod Update, and more!

YouTube

Subscribe to video notifications for your favorite YouTube channels - learn more

Highlights

Get DM notifications when a word or phrase is said in a server! - learn more

Discord x Dyno Premium

Upgrade to Dyno Premium directly in your Discord server! 1. Click @Dyno#3861, 2. Click Upgrade, 3. Done! Premium features will be immediately available! - learn more

Automod Update

The original automod, now more powerful than ever. Want per-rule log channels? More customization? Want 2 rules for bad words with different words and different punishments? You got it!

Premium Gifting

Now you can give Dyno Premium as a gift to friends, in giveaways, or lost bets! - learn more

... and more!

• Full slash command support!
• Custom giveaway images!
• ?addemote command!

Not interested in these updates?

Learn how to unfollow updates

Discord has added a bot library that they support! With this change I am going to switch out some of our music bots.

Bots Removing:
- Rythm
- Rythm 2
- FredBoat

Bots Adding:
- SoundCloud
- Vocard

The command symbol will be / and because the bots are integrated into discord, you'll be able to pick which bot you use in the / discord menu that comes up. These 2 bots have been tested and they are great quality and as easy to use, or easier, than the current music bots!

keep in mind, that all our voice and music chats are free to use! If you do not want to have your music interrupted by ads of other people talking, Our "music only" chats can be found in "Our server options" reacting to "Music and Relaxing", "Artist", or "Artist Viewer".

Thank you again for being apart of Zellonia! If there is anything we can do to better improve your experience in our server let us know HERE: https://discord.com/channels/412657478141083649/432903254469246976

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 should see that forum channels are now an option for you. If it’s not, you may be part of a small group of users who will have to wait just a little longer. ()

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: https://discord.com/community/creating-value-with-conversation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4MxuHNIIg0

Organize your Server with Forums

Presenting a brand new feature with old school energy: Forum Channels.
Give your community a place to get ~Into It~ about topics without talking over anybody else.
More info: https://www.dis.gd/forum-channels

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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-

To Be Announced
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YJlOdtEtyvmQbIVrqyV4LfDr4CobYdWxFVnD009ZXpY/edit?usp=sharing

Updates

, some balancing, edits, and some new content. ?Edit: Jester ability list has been moved to “Fan Made Abilities”?https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AmDL9zELah3SW_QSYV19R8iK4j5HPvs6?usp=sharing fisherman/Jester moved to “Fan Made Classes”??Classes:?Fabricator: Flaws: -1 Strength,...

"Don't change your profile pic for a bit I've been hearing that there's a bug with the new update that results in an IP ban from changing your profile pic."
- @Primus Draco

Thank your for posting this. please be careful of this!

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 https://dis.gd/DAC-FAQ, 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. https://dis.gd/Community_Resources

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: https://discord.com/blog/welcome-to-the-new-era-of-discord-apps

How to Manage Your Discord Community

Running a Discord community? Mosey on over to https://dis.gd/community-resources for more educational & informative Discord content on illuminative subjects ...

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.
bake* ⇒ Today, we baked some coffee cake
*milk ⇒ I add soymilk to my coffee
*press* ⇒ A Gibraltar is equal parts espresso 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. https://dis.gd/cu-automod-hc

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! https://dis.gd/cu-community-update
: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. https://dis.gd/cu-community
:dot: Chat with your peers in our brand new Discord Admin Community, a space where admins, creators, and community managers can connect. https://dis.gd/cu-meet-admins

Incredible communities on Discord are built by incredible admins and moderators like you. We can’t wait to do more together.

Meet Your Newest Community Moderator: AutoMod Is Here

Community moderation should be a hobby you celebrate, and we want to help you out. We'll be taking some of that moderation work off your hands and tackling it ourselves: Say hello to AutoMod!