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Ask HN: How do you keep track of all your Discord servers?

9 points by ciurca 5y ago

I want to get into more Discord servers, but it gets harder and harder to keep track of all of them.

kulikalov 5y ago
I created a custom notification system that notifies me about certain keywords in certain channels. Not even visiting discord, just receiving notifications by email.
- brw 5y ago
  Any chance you could share more about this notification system? I do know of client modifications that allow you to track certain keywords, but I haven't heard of anything that would email you without even having to run Discord. Except for bots, but those could only be used in servers you own or moderate.
  - kulikalov 5y ago
    The client modifications you are talking about are not allowed anymore. You don't have to control anything. All the data is delivered to your browser in a form of push notifications. Read them programmatically, filter and send yourself an email. I don't think this can fall to definition of a "discord bot" at all. It certainly doesn't violate anyones' ToS.
    - brw 5y ago
      Ah push notifications, that's smart. Don't think that would really work for me as I actually use Discord a ton and use push notifications to only notify me of important channels, but cool nonetheless. And yea I know client modifications haven't been allowed in years, although they haven't really cracked down on it much aside from completely separate third party clients.
ronsor 5y ago
Have you tried using folders?
- davidjhall 5y ago
  Are folders just on the phone app? I don't see how you can do that on the desktop app? Edit: Ok - RTFM (or rather Google Search ). There's no folder create per se but if you drag a channel over another and wait a second, it turns into a folder.
corobo 5y ago
Folders for Content, Tech, Entertainment Leave any server I've not spoke in or read in a month. I'm in 8 servers currently and 4 of them are on the chopping block soon :)
thaeli 5y ago
Discord doesn't seem to have any way (besides kludgy stuff where you run multiple instances of the client) to have different logins on different servers like Slack allows. Instead, it's one account everywhere.. which is frustrating when I have both "work" and "personal" Discords. I prefer to keep my work and personal personas separate; Slack allows this even though it's not as good a platform for community/personal servers as Discord is.
- brw 5y ago
  I believe this is actually in development. I've seen some previews shared by people who datamine new Discord releases, so it may or may not become available soon. Example: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/28404851/139339574-22625753-d275-488f-b407-381b050be119.png https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/28404851/139339574...

9 points by ciurca 5y ago

I want to get into more Discord servers, but it gets harder and harder to keep track of all of them.

I created a custom notification system that notifies me about certain keywords in certain channels. Not even visiting discord, just receiving notifications by email.

brw 5y ago
Any chance you could share more about this notification system? I do know of client modifications that allow you to track certain keywords, but I haven't heard of anything that would email you without even having to run Discord. Except for bots, but those could only be used in servers you own or moderate.
- kulikalov 5y ago
  The client modifications you are talking about are not allowed anymore. You don't have to control anything. All the data is delivered to your browser in a form of push notifications. Read them programmatically, filter and send yourself an email. I don't think this can fall to definition of a "discord bot" at all. It certainly doesn't violate anyones' ToS.
  - brw 5y ago
    Ah push notifications, that's smart. Don't think that would really work for me as I actually use Discord a ton and use push notifications to only notify me of important channels, but cool nonetheless. And yea I know client modifications haven't been allowed in years, although they haven't really cracked down on it much aside from completely separate third party clients.

ronsor 5y ago

Have you tried using folders?

davidjhall 5y ago
Are folders just on the phone app? I don't see how you can do that on the desktop app? Edit: Ok - RTFM (or rather Google Search ). There's no folder create per se but if you drag a channel over another and wait a second, it turns into a folder.

corobo 5y ago

Folders for Content, Tech, Entertainment Leave any server I've not spoke in or read in a month. I'm in 8 servers currently and 4 of them are on the chopping block soon :)

thaeli 5y ago

Discord doesn't seem to have any way (besides kludgy stuff where you run multiple instances of the client) to have different logins on different servers like Slack allows. Instead, it's one account everywhere.. which is frustrating when I have both "work" and "personal" Discords. I prefer to keep my work and personal personas separate; Slack allows this even though it's not as good a platform for community/personal servers as Discord is.

brw 5y ago
I believe this is actually in development. I've seen some previews shared by people who datamine new Discord releases, so it may or may not become available soon. Example: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/28404851/139339574-22625753-d275-488f-b407-381b050be119.png https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/28404851/139339574...