Forum Posts

Why bot-authored posts

A Discord forum post can only be edited by the person who wrote it. That is fine for discussion threads and terrible for reference material - if your moderator handbook lives in a forum channel, the one person who posted it owns every future edit.

The dashboard's Forum Posts page fixes that by making the bot the author. The bot creates the thread and its starter message, so anyone with admin access to the dashboard can edit or delete it later. Staff turnover stops mattering; the handbook belongs to the server.

Creating a post

Open the Forum Posts page (under Advanced in the guild nav - admin tier), pick a forum channel, and fill in the form:

• Title - the thread name, up to 100 characters.
• Tags - pick from the tags configured on that forum channel, up to 5 per post (Discord's limit).
• Content - the starter message, up to 2,000 characters. Markdown works the same as any Discord message.

The post is saved as pending, and the bot creates the thread shortly after. Refresh the list and the status flips to live. If Discord rejected it (missing permissions in the channel, usually), the status shows error with Discord's reason - fix the cause and save an edit to retry.

Editing and deleting

Every managed post has Edit and Delete buttons on the page:

• Edit updates the title, tags, and starter message in place. Replies under the thread are untouched.
• Delete removes the whole thread from Discord, replies included, then removes the dashboard entry. You are asked to confirm first.

Good to know

• Posts are created by the bot, so ownership is shared: anyone with admin dashboard access can edit or delete them. Treat the page accordingly when handing out dashboard roles.
• The starter message is capped at 2,000 characters. Longer handbooks work best as several posts, one topic each.
• Tags come from the forum channel's own tag list, and Discord allows at most 5 per post. Add or rename tags in Discord's channel settings; the dashboard picks them up automatically.
• The bot needs permission to create and manage posts in the forum channel. If a post lands in error, that is the first thing to check.
• If someone deletes the thread directly in Discord, the dashboard entry stays behind. Delete it from the page to clean up - there is nothing left in Discord for it to remove.