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Hey everyone, I hope you all are hanging in there. As many of you know by now, my main account (i am toast#1213) was compromised. The hacker used Toasty to spread a fake automated Discord message to attempt to hack people's accounts. This is obviously very sad for me as I've been working on Toasty for around 6 years now, and we're unsure of wether or not we will be able to get Toasty back.
I've been in contact with Discord for weeks now trying to get my account back, but as many of you probably know, their support team is pretty slow, so it's sort of just a waiting game for now.

On a brighter note, Toasty HQ has remained in-tact, which I'm quite grateful for. The community around Toasty means a lot to me, and I hope I can maintain it through these tough times. For the meantime, I've created a new application of Toasty ( @Toasty ) on this account (one that I can insure will remain uncompromised). You guys can continue to catch pokemon, play music, or whatever else it is you love using Toasty for. For now, however, bot usage has to remain within Toasty HQ due to the fact that the bot is unverified and can only be added to up to 100 servers. Please spread the news to your friends that aren't in Toasty HQ.

Let's keep our hopes high and stick together, we will get through this.
- toast \<3

@Pokemon Trainer
“To anyone wondering what is currently going on, a few days/weeks ago Toast's main account got compromised by a hacker. He has been in contact with discord since the incident. All the while the staff team and I were in hopes they wouldn't recognize or know how to use the developer portal. Quite obviously they did.

At this current moment toast and the rest of the team are doing everything we can to get control of the bot and the main Toast account back.

If you have received a link from toasty, PLEASE DO NOT click it and enter discord information, as many already know.

Thank you for your cooperation while we work on getting things back into order. ❤️ :toasty:”

And now you know 🌈

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

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 & 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

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!

Hey Admins and Mods!

We have an exciting announcement for our users in US, CA, GB, and AU (more countries to come soon).

Today we are officially launching Stage Discovery, a quick way for users to browse and join open audio events from all sorts of communities.

As a Community server, you can now set your Stage public and allow members from across Discord to listen in on all of the amazing activities happening live in your server. We think this can be a great way to engage and grow your community. Sing, chat, or learn something new by creating or tuning into a Stage now!

There’s a lot more to this new feature, so be sure to read all the details at https://discord.com/stages and make sure your event abides by our Stage Guidelines: https://support.discord.com/hc/articles/1500010879761.

_P.S. On Mobile, Mentions and Quick Switcher have merged into the same tab and there are more exciting things to come 👀 _

Hey Admins and Mods,

• 🔨 🐛 We've fixed a number of bugs with Membership Screening on Android v73 and above. Members should no longer get stuck!
• 📜 You can now set a Server Description in Community Settings > Overview on web/desktop. It'll show up in your server pop out on web/desktop and mobile.

Thanks!

Hey Admins and Mods,

We're making it easier for you to run audio events in your community!

Introducing: Stage channels, a new type of channel that allow you to share a focused conversation with select speakers to an audience of listeners.
- You can set a topic on the conversation.
- Speakers are shown at the top in the UI.
- All members join as muted listeners by default. No more messing with Speak perms! 🚫
- Members can raise hand to request to speak. 👋
- You can designate "Stage moderators" who can approve/deny these requests.

In beta testing, we saw communities use Stages for voice AMAs, townhalls, reading clubs where each person talks about their book of choice, and people just singing the night away in karaoke.

Other important stuff:
- Stage channels are audio only; no video or screen share options currently.
- Up to 1,000 users are able to join Stage channels for now.
- You can run multiple Stage channels at the same time, similar to current channels.
- It is out on all platforms: iOS, Android, Desktop, and Web. If you don't see it, please update your client.
- Got more Qs? Check out: https://dis.gd/stagesfaq

Hey Admins and Mods!

You may have heard about a feature for bots currently in beta called Slash Commands! Essentially, the way users interact with bots is about to become much simpler - it's as easy as typing "/" to bring up all the commands that bot can do. Slash Commands come with features like autocomplete, validation, and error handling. No more typing up memorized commands, which means bots no longer need to read user messages!

We're excited for how this update will unlock more fun with bots, and since we know many of you are careful with where and how you manage bot permissions, we wanted to give you a special heads up on what this is and what small actions you can take today to prepare for the upcoming release.

What this means for you
- We are launching a new permission: "Use Slash Commands."
- Currently, if you've wanted to avoid bot spam in certain channels, you may have turned off read/send message permissions for bots.
- However, if those bots use Slash Commands in the future, you'll need to configure this new permission in order to keep your channels consistent with how they're set up today. Otherwise, Slash Commands may be able to get around your old permissions setups. Commands are sent directly to the bot and not through reading user messages.
- Go through your channels and decide where you do and do not want to allow Slash Commands to be used (yes #botspam, no #channel).

You can see this permission option today on desktop, and on mobile in a few days.

Thanks for all your hard work!

P.S. Attached is a lil preview of Slash Commands in action.

Hey Admins and Mods,

Today we're excited to share with you a new experiment that we'll be rolling out over the next few weeks. You'll no longer need to settle on choosing one server region that your voice channels run on for your whole server. Instead you'll be able to use a different region for each of your voice channels.

But what does this mean for you?
- Each of your voice channels will have a voice region setting. More regions means better call quality because you're not forcing one region for everyone.
- We've also added a new option called "Automatic." By default, all voice channel regions will be set to "Automatic." This means that the region will be automatically determined based on the first person to join an empty voice channel, and the region can change anytime a voice channel becomes completely empty and new person joins it.
- You still have the option to set a specific region if you want though. This option will be moving from Server Settings and is now found in each voice channel settings page.

We recommend using the default region, "Automatic", so you don't need to constantly change voice channel regions based on who is in a voice channel (Let Discord handle that!), but you're always able to make changes under Voice Channel Settings at any time.

Also — because there's a region setting for each voice channel now means that the permissions to manage this have changed. Instead of granting roles the Manage Server permission to change the server region, any roles that have the Manage Channel permission will be able to adjust the voice channel region if needed.

Like we mentioned, this experiment will be rolling out over the next few weeks, and if things look good we'll be swapping over to this system permanently. If you have specific questions around this change, you can check out the Help Center article here: https://support.discord.com/hc/articles/360060570993

Hey Admin and Mods,

Today, we are excited to release our new Rules Screening feature to all communities. We all know that joining a new community can often be overwhelming and confusing. A great way to help set new members up for success is to outline a set of rules and guidelines that describe your community’s culture and how one should behave in it.

Rules Screening gives you a simple, clean way to ensure that potential members can understand the guidelines for your community before joining, helping ensure that they can be positive additions to your community. If enabled, new members will be prompted to read your rules when they join your server, and until they agree to them and pass your verification level requirements, they will not be able to talk, react, or DM other members.

For servers that traditionally have not used gating mechanisms (e.g. bot role gate) know that enabling Rules Screening does create more friction to joining and could lead to a decrease in new member joins. However, it does offer the least friction possible for anyone who wants new members to agree to rules.

We also know communities often need more sophisticated screening methods like custom response/manual application, oAuth, and third party connections. We are hard at work building those so that we can release them to you soon as well.

As always, please provide any feedback or comments on these new features so we can help improve them moving forward!

Happy Screening & Happy Holidays.

P.S. If you grant roles to new members on join via a bot, it will bypass this feature. We recommend updating your bot to only grant roles once members pass the screening. Look for the pending flag in our developer documentation.
P.S.S If you plan to remove your bot role gate and use Screening, make sure you enable talking perms on so they can talk after passing. We've already ensured that pending members are not able to talk, dm, or react until they've accepted the rules.

Hey Admins and Mods,
- The amount of members required to join Server Discovery has been lowered to 7,000 members (from 10k). We plan to continue lowering this requirement as time goes on because small communities are great communities too! Slowly lowering the requirements over time means we can properly scale our own moderation and ensure communities in Server Discovery are safe for everyone.
- For server moderators on the go, you can now publish Announcement channel messages on mobile. Just long press a message in an Announcement channel and you'll see a publish button! If you don't see it, you may need to update your app.