How to migrate away from ProBot
Move off ProBot without a gap in welcomes or levels — what transfers, what has to be rebuilt, and the image settings people forget to capture first.
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Every Discord guide and fix published by The Manual, newest first.
Why your Discord notifications are not arriving
Why Discord notifications are not arriving — seven causes common to all eight platforms, starting with the toggle that ships off and is easy to miss.
How to set up Discord notifications
Set up Discord notifications from eight external platforms — the shared three-step setup every platform follows, and where each one actually differs.
How to spot a Discord scam
Six scam patterns that account for nearly all of it, the three signals that identify every one of them, and what to configure so members meet fewer.
How to fix a "Missing Permissions" error
The error almost never means what it says. Here is how to find the real cause in under a minute, and the four things that actually cause it.
How to handle a Discord ban appeal
Discord has no appeals system, so every server builds one. The four decisions to make in advance, and the form that makes the rest straightforward.
How to migrate away from Dyno
The order that avoids downtime, what to inventory before Dyno's dashboard is gone, and why levels only need migrating if you were already paying for them.
Why Discord AutoMod is not working
Nine causes in likelihood order. The first is an exemption you set yourself, and the second is a wildcard that does not mean what it looks like.
How to restrict Discord bot commands to roles or channels
Restrict Discord bot commands to specific roles or channels — per-command Enabled and Disabled lists, and how they differ from the Integrations page.
How to secure a Discord server
Nine controls in the order that matters, from the two Discord settings almost nobody changes to the audit-log layer that catches an insider.
Which permissions a Discord bot actually needs
Which permissions a Discord bot actually needs — a permission-by-feature table, the three riskier than they look, and why intents are not permissions.
How to build a Discord moderation team
Who to recruit, what to grant them, how to write the rules they enforce, and the three structures that stop a team burning out at the same point.
How to migrate away from Carl-bot
What to do about a Tagscript library that has no direct equivalent elsewhere, and the one category — ticketing — Carl-bot never built at all.
How to migrate away from Arcane
Move off Arcane without losing member levels — the inventory to take first, the order to move in, and why role rewards are the part that needs planning.
How to recover a compromised Discord server
The first ten minutes decide how much you lose. Stop the access, establish who did it, restore structure, then close the route they used.
How to set up Discord server logging
Which events are worth logging, how to route them without creating 148 channels, and why Discord's own audit log is not a substitute for this.
Are Discord bots safe?
Are Discord bots safe? Mostly yes — the risk is rarely the code but the permissions you grant, the invite link you clicked, and an app nobody reviews.
Why your bot cannot assign a role
Six causes, in order. The first one is right about three times in four, takes ten seconds to check, and produces no error message at all.
Why your Discord bot is not responding
Why a Discord bot is not responding — nine causes, ordered by how often they are the answer, starting with a channel overwrite silently swallowing it.
What to do when your Discord bot goes offline
What to do when a Discord bot goes offline — telling in ninety seconds whether it is Discord, the bot, one shard or your server, and how to stay safe.
Discord role hierarchy, explained properly
Position beats permission. Almost every confusing permission problem on Discord comes down to that one rule, and it is not the rule most people expect.
How to migrate away from MEE6
Migrate away from MEE6 without downtime — the order to move in, the inventory to take first, and why kicking the bot does not cancel the billing.
How to set up Discord AutoMod properly
The built-in AutoMod handles more than most people realise, and configuring it badly is worse than not configuring it. Here is the order to do it in.
How to set up a Discord ticket system
Set up a Discord ticket system in thirteen steps, in dependency order — channel structure, intake forms, routing, claiming, limits and transcripts.
How to switch Discord bots without losing member XP
Switch Discord bots without losing member XP — the one free importer that genuinely moves levels, the parallel run, and seeding the ladder by hand.
How to protect a server against raids
Protect a Discord server against raids in three layers — what to configure before it happens, and what to do in the first sixty seconds when it does.