Communities are an essential part of Discord, and we’re making it a core responsibility for us to serve communities and create first-class experiences for both administrators and members.
If you run a community, you can now designate your server as a Community Server inside Server Settings and get access to some powerful tools to help you run, moderate, and grow your server!
What this article covers:
- Requirements for Enabling Community
- Tools for Community Servers
- How do you Enable Community?
- How to Customize Your Community Settings
- How to Disable Your Community Server?
Requirements for Enabling Community
In order to enable Community for your Discord server, you are required to have the following settings enabled in order to ensure safety in the community:
- Safety Checks
- Verification Level Setting
- Members of the server must have a verified email on their Discord account before sending messages or DMing anyone in the server. (Note that this doesn’t apply to users that have been assigned roles!)
- Explicit Media Content Filter
- Scan media content from all members: this will scan all media sent in the server and delete any content that contains potential explicit content. Our policy requires users to apply an age-restricted label to any channels that contain explicit content. Learn more about how to do this here!
- Verification Level Setting
- Rules or Guidelines Channel
- There must be a clearly posted server rules channel for members. This is useful so that new members understand what is cool and not cool in your community!
- Community Updates/Moderators Channel
- This is the channel where Discord will send announcements and updates relevant to Community Server admins and moderators, like new moderation features.
- Lastly, all servers must comply with our Community Guidelines. We want to make sure that users joining your server have a good experience and that there’s nothing that violates our Guidelines on your server.
Tools for Community Servers
Please note that you will no longer be able to edit Welcome Screen if your Community server still has Welcome Screen enabled.. We recommend enabling Community Onboarding instead on your server.
- Announcement Channels:
- These are special channels that enable you to broadcast messages beyond your server. Users can “Follow” your announcement channels and receive those updates directly to their own servers.
- Direct Community Updates from Discord:
- New features and changes from Discord can significantly impact your server. To help keep up to date, you can now select a moderator-only channel for official Discord updates. We’ll give you that heads up so you and your moderation team can always be prepared.
- Server Insights:
- Server Insights provides information about your server that can let you know how your community is doing. Is it healthy? Are people talking? What does your retention look like?
- Discovery:
- You can display your community directly on Discord’s Server Discovery — no more having to advertise somewhere else to attract new users!
- Note: This is currently limited to servers with more than 1000 members and Partnered & Verified servers. We will lower these limits over time.
- You can display your community directly on Discord’s Server Discovery — no more having to advertise somewhere else to attract new users!
- Community Onboarding:
- With Community Onboarding, new members get to pick out their own roles and channels and enjoy a personalized channel list in your server by answering a few simple questions.
How to Enable Your Community Server?
If you’re ready to convert your server into a Community Server, you’ll need to start by heading into your Server Settings!
- Select the server name in the upper left corner, and you’ll see a drop down menu appear! Then press Server Settings in the menu.
- Once you’re in your Server Settings, scroll down and select Enable Community in the left side bar!
- Press the Get Started button to begin setting up your Community Server! You’ll then go through a series of steps to make sure your community is set up for success in being able to protect and manage your community.
- After confirming that you agree and understand that your server must comply with the Community Server Guidelines and Community Guidelines, press Finish Setup to start managing your Community Server!
How to Customize Your Community Settings
If you’d like to make changes to your Community Server Settings at any point in time, head back into your Server Settings, and then select the Overview tab (under the Community header) in the left side bar!
Once you’re in the Overview tab, you’ll be able to:
- Set up your server’s Welcome Screen
- Change which channel will act as the host for your server’s rules and guidelines
- Change which channel will be your “moderators only” channel to see updates from Discord
- Change which channel will be used to update you of any important safety updates for your server
- Change your server’s Primary Language
If you’d like to learn more on how to keep your server safe, please check out our articles on rules screening and raid prevention.
How to Disable Your Community Server?
If at any time, you decide that you no longer want to enable the features that come with opting into being a Community Server, you’ll be able to directly disable these settings as well! (And if you ever change your mind after disabling, you can always re-enable the Community settings.)
To disable the Community Server settings, head back into your Server Settings, and then select the Overview tab (under the Community header) in the left side bar.
Once you are in the Overview tab, scroll down until you see the Disable Community section, and then press Disable Community.
Lastly, make sure to press Save Changes to confirm that you want to disable these settings!