Advance Discord to the Next Level with Powerful Server Customisations!

Dear all - support staff included,

Thx to the staff's encouragement upon private email correspondences, I am pleased to reiterate a number of suggestions below. Inspired by the rival named Guilded.gg but also various other forum, form and learning course builders and some of their really crucial features, these suggestions saliently include

• Subserver Groups
• Invisible Messages
• Custom-designed Server Interface
• Non-VC Activities/Adventuresome Tasks

Subserver Groups

Unlike categories of channels with custom perms to filter select member roles, the subserver groups each can be iconised using the custom icon in the same technical sense as using server icon and can each expand to include own categories of channels.

This assuages such an inconvenience, in my personal case, where I have to interlink ten servers in some special circle in terms of some of the roles that are accorded privileges and access to select ones from these additional servers. Activating the subserver group system would help centralise the roles, members' statuses and bots based on the server's current configuration and implement the parental system into each of the groups.

The groups each should also have own differentiated roles, bot uses and so on.

Invisible Messages

Invisible messages unlike using spoiler tags should be an opportunity to communicate to role-specific members in the given channel.

One benefit is that instead of having to create separate channels meant to be read-only resources to cater for specific member roles, I'd like where some of these channels are merged whilst keeping the silent communications to select roles intact - this would help declutter having too many channels.

Another benefit is in the case of 'games' similar to Mafia tournaments and some roleplay activities where the staff/hosts can moderate the transparency and level of visibility to the contents one wants to post.

Ideally and technically, if this is approved, you should also enable the webhooks to work along that system where for example, using bot Discohook, one could insert some messages in between that target only select member roles.

Custom-designed Server Interface

Custom-designed server interface should be a possibility that would take Discord to the next level in rivalry with many competitors including Wix' inbuilt forum, chat and blog besides their intuitive drag n' drop editor.

Aspects include, a) custom-colouring the channels sidebar so besides light/dark mode, one could set the colour, pattern and/or even custom image backdrop (this is different from server banner that shows on the top)!

Next, b), the ability to create special type channels, similar to the currently beta-tested Server Guide (which is only available to community-enabled servers), plus set their channel names the custom way so one channel no longer has to be 'server guide'. The kind of channel should be not just channels that are interactable to members but also 'pages' that are read-only and custom-typed out by the owner/admin.

Third, c), what should be unique about those pages unlike the channels is that the typist/sender does not have to show up, let alone the inserted contents and the slate itself should appear seamless with the sidebar of whatever colour and can span the full width that channels do, like the former 'Home' tab and the currently tested Server Guide.

And moreover, d), again, unlike the Server Guide, these 'pages' should be highly-customisable where not only you have single column of texts but you can have up to three or more columns, even images and even multiple, laterally/horizontally spaced-out elements and links - perhaps the underlying scaffolding structure/template would be gridlike of like, 3x3 'blocks'! And these elements within any of these blocks should include custom menus for specific channels, links to 'membership base' that displays various levels of detail under each member including badges, roles, their different kinds of activities from text-posts to VC and media in addition to the member panel and should be able to be sorted for viewing in various orders, media-specific galleries and so on.

This should be as powerful as Wix builder in the sense of forum design and as intuitive so no coding should be required!

Non-VC Activities/Adventuresome Tasks

These tasks should be a possibility without need of the in-VC mode and they must be able to be logged in/permanently stored in some server's internal database system linked to specific members, their activities and so on. There should be a special dedicated system that the admins and/or subordinate moderators can use to develop and implement such 'assignments' and host activities/games in the long run.

This could be similar to school classrooms and even many mainstream forums/membership platforms online that have 'courses', 'assessments' and 'assignments'. While Discord has special classroom integration feature already in place, this would surely take it to the next level but also for those servers that are not 'classroom' activated including those not affiliated with any school through such school email addresses but just as ordinary servers and private/friends-only. This way, the server could be a really functioning 'platform' where theories are virtually dealt with in-server and then becomes an 'application platform' on the go, even on mobile as well as on desktop/laptop where the users can apply those learnt theories to real-life situations and report back in-server with certain input types.

Enable several modes of such activities not only for school-like setting but also ordinary and 'adventuresome' settings as well as institutional and organisations-related. Inspired by various learning platforms such as Disciplemedia, Mighty Networks and Thinkific, consider making at least three distinctive modes a possibility - 1) Course, b) Assessment/Quiz/Test and c) Assignment/Activity/Task. These special content types should be highly interactable. That is, where admin/mod-designed/editable only, the course can be constantly updated and evolve as with assessments and assignments and the course can include different types of sections like 'concepts/principles', media-rich examples, reference links and so on - the course should be progression-oriented with checkpoints that may require the undertakers to complete certain tasks/assessments before continuing. The assessment mode should include different subtypes from unannounced pop quizzes to timed, to take-home to open book and can include a variety of question types with media-stimuli as well as logic jumps like form builders such as Jotform. And the assignment mode should include special fields that the undertakers can fill in overtime under designated timeframes with certain input types including PDFs, doc-based reports, images and so on! And OFC, interlinked to all these should be admin/mod-stipulated grading and achievement system that can then be linked to another system of XP that is merit-based with awards and even some roles to recognise different levels of achievers!

Even for non-educational servers that are meant to be related to games or guilds, the admin can set, reusing those course, assessment and assignment modes rather as gameplay instructions/tutorials (course), challenges/tournaments/ordeals (assessment) and quests/missions (assignments) with the possibility of 'overlay' interfacing. Even religiously affiliated servers would greatly benefit from this system on Discord, similar to many bible apps like BibleProjectTM and so on that have richly interlinked learning, reflection and fellowship tasks.

Overall Integration

All these four suggestions should come in varying degrees of customisation, to be fair and support the Discord company for the wonderful possibilities, that should be subject to the server owner's privileges, that is, the higher boosted level the server is, the server should unlock more detailed and intricate aspects of each of those suggestions - but I must sincerely request that even at their basic level, all these four suggestions should be made available to non-boosted servers and even ones that are not community-enabled to start with (obv. since some owners want to keep it private)! So to elaborate on the degrees of customisation in terms of the level-boosted server, let me suggest as follows.

Non-boosted servers -

• Up to 10 subserver groups with all channel types such as text, voice and forum
• Each subserver group should be able to have a special type of server invite that should not be able to work for outsiders that aren't members of the main server - also, enable the option to make any of the subserver groups exclusively accessible to specific member roles in the main server
• Within each subserver group, support up to 10 unique roles + 5 categories + 15 channels
• Enable invisible messages that are set visible only for up to ten users and/or up to 2 roles server-wide and at least where admins are enabled to do so
• Enable up to 3 custom-designed 'pages' on up to 3x3 grid blocks where each block is a single column of any media and texts in scroll-down sequence
• Enable creation of max. three courses, five assessments and ten assignments with a basic number/level of their inherent features like logic jumps, etc.

Level 1 boosted servers -

• Within each subserver group, support up to 20 unique roles, 10 categories and 30 channels
• Enable toggling invisible messages to visible to target up to 20 users and/or up to 5 roles and where not only admins but also members can do
• Expand the grid blocks for up to 6 custom-designed 'pages' on 5x5
• Enable up to 5 courses, 10 assessments and 20 assignments plus another three radically new ways of activities (I leave to you staff and forum users to think about and add to the suggestions)

And so on for the higher-level boosted servers.

I hope the above gets voted favourably! If these suggestions are not possible, at least enable the very possibility for Discord developers via using API!

Looking forward to the discussion,

Kind regards

Adv.