Server Roles Page Makeover

Nelly
Hiya! Recently I was inspired to take what Discord's current server roles page looks like and give it a huge revamp, changing & adding quite a few things to help management in the roles feel cleaner and more organized. In redesigning this page to fit how I would enjoy seeing it, I created a list of the things that have been changed in the concept image below: https://i.imgur.com/sYvQ8Jk.png - Hovering over & selecting roles now has an animation, making the focused role larger while all the others are packed neatly together. - All roles marked "Administrator" now have a special icon next to them in the list as a reminder, much like ones that are locked (Perhaps this could work with "managed" roles that bots are automatically assigned with as well). - Added exclusive Roles page "dividers" to better help organize server roles. I know, you'll barely ever look at the Roles page, but it's still nicer than clustering all the roles together, or having to create ones that *look* like dividers. The dividers will act as categories, and can be collapsed along with the roles under it. The help message below the roles was also tweaked a bit. - Added a single button to create & search for both roles and dividers. Typing in a name will either let you 1.) Select a role or divider that fits said name, or 2.) Create a new role or divider if the name does not already fit one (You can still create roles & dividers that have the same names as others). - Spruced up the Role Name & Color section: 1. You can now select colors from a plethora of different modes, much like photo-editing softwares such as Photoshop offer. (To reset back to the original blank color, you can either select pure black or erase the hex code in its designated box). 2. You can add a description of up to 256 characters to a role. When @pinging a role in Discord, you can hover over the text as it highlights, but nothing happens. Adding a description to the role would instead show there, potentially along with a higher-detail name & color. 3. Put the Administrator and Delete Role options right at the top with the basic role settings, as they are quite important compared to the others. The Administrator option was also tweaked to show how risky it is. - Lastly but not least, I took all the role permissions and organized them into their own categories, all of which are also collapsible (if you REALLY need to). Here's what they have: 1. "Display role separately from others" and "Allow anyone to @ping role" options are kept at the top, being that they are two of the most significant permissions out of the rest. 2. MANAGEMENT - All permissions tagged with "Managing" have been put into this category, as well as the "View Audit Log" option as well. 3. MODERATION - These are lesser roles compared to Management, but they fit more along the lines of casual moderation of a server. The "Mention @everyone and @here" and "Priority Speaker" options were placed in here as well. 4. GENERAL - The last of the categories contains all of the basic, less-important permissions that usually nobody touches, unless to have a punishment role. "Read & See Text & Voice Channels" was put on top. 5. All three named categories have options to switch on or off all of the permissions in it at the top, along with an "(All of the below)" message to help users know what it does. 6. Almost all of the permissions that didn't have them were given descriptions, as well as the changing of some existing descriptions. The only permissions that don't have them are clear enough in their titles. That is everything that has been changed in this concept image. It would be great to see some / all of the things I made included in Discord, as it would help greatly in organization and cleanliness. Thanks for reading, and if you have any criticism / suggestions, I'm open to hearing it!
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  • 主 | Xan

    Awesome idea!

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  • Sgt. Skillz

    Perfect! Can't wait to have it rolled out! Any ETA?

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  • _Dubrovski_

    And also add this option https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360030416112-Custom-Badges-for-roles-similar-to-Crown-of-server-owner

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  • Black Mega Therion

    i came to post the same suggestion basically:

    Make role categories in the server settings so that when you go to edit roles you can sort through and collapse the categories you dont need! In the server settings for roles you would have a "make category" option like you do when making channels.

    so like if you had some color roles you could put them under one category called "colors" and for video game roles you could make a category called "Games" and collapse them when not needed.

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  • StygianInk

    3 Years ago and this still hasn't been implemented? Discord your roles are INTEGRAL to your platform, they deserve a more professional update! Please consider this!

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  • RatKing

    Any ETA on this yet? It looks really nice.

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  • davidkabom

    This can be sone if you change their names to Admin > Staff and so and there on use the alphabetical orser. Also you can colour code which would make them appear in the same role section but look different from each other. Even if it's not what you asked for but it's something.

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  • VimHax

    Ihttps://gyazo.com/3a140a26c4a7c2e96bdfbf9d87e29943 

    I've automated this with my bot and it looks nice but I still thinking being able to order the roles freely should be a option, because sometimes admin+ is below admin and that shouldn't be how it is displayed

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  • chloroform chloe

    There are many suggestions about this already iirc.

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  • Kaicer

    I'm dealing a couple of days ago about the topic of role manager that does not work correctly, since I think that this function should and should work from the role that is given this permission.

    The creation of groups is very easy to do since they are only roles with nice names for the user. but in a more advanced way to have a role of a group is to have a new channel in which to chat.

     

     

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  • bittersweet_buttercup

    This could also be useful for servers with guild roles if each guild has its own ranking system with titles/roles for each rank

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  • lengo
    This seems like a cool idea. I don't know if it's completely necessary although if Discord thinks they should add it, it would be a cool addition.
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  • Torbjörn

    I do like the simplified approach to permissions compared to TeamSpeak and the others but at the same time I loved how you could fine tune almost anything. This would be a great feature to see added.
    Ultimately I’d love to see some of the more complex permissions from TeamSpeak implemented on Discord that would only be visible if the user scrolled all the way down to enable them. The main issue with the complex permissions system on TeamSpeak was that if you weren’t careful you could have serious consequences. I have seen some of the less experienced TeamSpeak admins lock themselves out, grant permissions that they don’t understand, and many other unspeakable things.

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  • Torbjörn

    Could you be more vague?

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  • Torbjörn

    You could deny the Moderator role permissions in the channel and grant the Moderator LoL permissions in the channel. You could use categories too for a collection of channels.

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  • Mrsupdup

    I think that would only work if I created “Moderator LoL” roles. Instead every user has a game role, and then additional administrator roles e.g. “LoL” and “Moderator” or “LoL” and “Streamer”.

    If I enable permissions for “LoL” everyone can read the ‘Moderator LoL’ chat that plays League of Legends, not just the roles that are given category permissions.

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  • Torbjörn

    I just tested and what I described above and it works. If you’d like me to show you my setup add me on Discord.

    Torbjörn#3787

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  • username

    yes we need this

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  • aenima72826

    I think they are suggesting a sort of collapsible role category or "folder"  for different types of roles for example "streamer" roles could contain you-tube, twitch, picarto ect where as "Color" roles could contain roles like Yellow, green, blue ect that way when you are looking through all your server roles or just some of them you can collapse the categories you don't want to look at. 

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  • Ad Astra per Aspera

    Also make it so that we can remove or add categories as a role themselves. Say one person has all roles in a category, or that we want him/her gone from all roles in that category, we can ex the category out of their role listing. So here's the thing though. You meant that when you click a name on the sever, it will display ONLY category roles, and when you hover over them, it will display the sub roles, or all all the category roles and regular roles seperate? 

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  • Teknirekt

    As someone with a game clan server and tons of roles, some effective and some vanity, THIS would be very much appreciated.

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  • additional_pylons

    Also if it made it possible to either edit all of their permissions at the same time OR make it so you can give permissions to the Role Folder itself, that would simplify a lot of organization issues and role management

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  • additional_pylons

    Basically a system that allows roles to be grouped in drop down menus to make the roles page less cluttered for more complex servers. Similar to the way categories minimize text and voice channels.

     
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  • billy

    Kind of like the channel categorization.

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  • Wholf

    Agreed.

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  • Purrfected

    The hierarchical structure on Discord got many things to be wished for.

    Branches for one thing, categories would work perfectly.

    I have a Discord server for a LAN community and trying to get clans to come in so we togehter can get higher server boosts.

    It's a big problem that I cannot let them invite their own members, since even if I create "clanAdmin" role, and then "clanMember" role after, they will be able to promote people to every other role under them in the role tree.

    Probably a few other clans, and by extent, also being able to go into their channels and read their text chats.

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  • lengo
    That would be cool. Although it is also a bit unnecessary.
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  • charitwo
    This should definitely be looked at along with hierarchy in general.
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  • Saluki

    This is something that we need adding - to all platforms. The roles menu is in dire need of this and new permissions (like being able to make certain roles taggable by certain roles - admins can only tag @announcements for instance).

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  • Redxjak

    Definitely bump this!

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