Custom Messages

FAQ for information about the different types of custom messages.

What are the different types of custom messages?

• Birthday

  • Up to 3 different messages; premium servers get 500.

  • Sent when a birthday in your Discord server happens.

  • Sent based on the user's time zone, unless the default server time zone is set and the UseTimezone is set to server.

  • Placeholders:

    • {Users} - the bot will replace this with the name of the birthday user.

    • {Server} - the bot will replace this with the name of the Discord server.

    • {Age} - the bot will replace this with the age the user is turning (if their birth year is set)

    • {Year} - the bot will replace this with the birth year of the user (if their birth year is set)

• Member Anniversary

  • Up to 3 different messages; premium servers get 500.

  • Sent when a member's join anniversary in your Discord server happens.

  • Sent based on server's default time zone.

  • Placeholders:

    • {Users} - the bot will replace this with the name of the user whose membership anniversary it is being celebrated.

    • {Year} - the bot will replace this with the number of years the member has been in the Discord server.

    • {Server} - the bot will replace this with the name of the Discord server.

• Server Anniversary

  • Up to 1 different message; premium servers get 500.

  • Sent when a Discord server's creation anniversary happens.

  • Sent based on server's default time zone.

  • Placeholders:

    • {Year} - the bot will replace this with the number of years old the Discord server is.

    • {Server} - the bot will replace this with the name of the Discord server.

• Custom Events

  • 1 per event

  • Sent on the date and hour configured to the vent

  • Sent based on a server's time zone setting

  • Placeholders

    • {Server} - the bot will replace this with the name of the Discord server.

    • {Year} the current year

See here for information about user-specific custom messages. (These are preset messages for a specific user in your Discord server).

What is a message ping?

A message ping setting decides which role or "group" to mention (@) when Birthday Bot sends an event message. Acceptable values include everyone, here, @role/role-name, and none. You can also include the {Users} placeholder in the ping setting for birthdays and member anniversaries to ping them outside an embed.

This setting can be changed for all messages of each message type, not by each singular message.

What is the message time?

The message time is the hour when the bot will send a custom message (in the user's time zone or the server's default time zone, if set up). This setting only affects the message and roles given with certain events that will always happen at midnight (12 am) in the user's time zone or the server's default time zone, if set up. However, Birthday Bot allows you to customize the messages' time so you aren't pinging @everyone or @here at midnight.

This setting can be changed for all messages of each message type, not by each singular message.

What is the image format setting?

Message embeds have two slots for images, the thumbnail (small and to the right of the message description) and image (large and below the message description). This setting allows premium servers to configure how their images should appear.