biggestserver.org design

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We're aiming to become the biggest server on discord.

A minimal server, but here's every decision I made.

Calm conversation, leaning towards effortposts but memeable, and not gamified in any way.

As a meme, it'd be 'GROW MORE CALM NOW'.

Rankless

Ranks incentivise participating on discord servers. Go outside.

Channels

Chatting channels have differing slowmode levels.

Categories are just emoji for cleanliness.

video_about

A video, with some basic guidelines in text

network

Two-hour slowmode on channel messages (later, six).

effect

One-hour slowmode for topics (later, two).

Five minutes for replies (later, fifteen).

voice

Create room does what it says, and they're auto-removed after everyone disconnects.

People can manage settings of voice rooms they create.

Bots

Bots are minimal and unobtrusive.

Hidden Stuff

There's no ranks, but there's some roles for moderating. They're short and colorless.

There's a moderator channel called 'chill_moderation', under the hidden category 'LOCK'.

Two other hidden roles are for timing out people, which are

Timed out people can't chat, but can read the woah channel, containing pornography and computer addiction resources.

Safeguarding

Resources

Additional resources are available here.