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change t-shirts between videos so oh
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hello and welcome i'm machine dana i hope you're doing really really well in this video i'm going
to cover how you can set up a discord server i'm going to cover some of the basics for example
first of all how you download and install discord the basics of adding a server the key things that
you need to consider we'll go into a little bit of detail about roles a little bit of detail
about permissions and then i'll link to some other further contents i've done loads of discord videos
and the content that i'll link to will be things like auto assigning roles to people based on your
twitch or youtube how to make the most of roles how to edit channels add new channels
integrations all kinds of things like that so this will be a sort of a medium-sized video
where i'll cover quite a lot of stuff but only at a very basic level and then i'll link to further
content where there's a lot more detail if you do find this useful i'd appreciate you hitting
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can also check me out at twitch.tv forward slash machine dana as well let's get going with this
okay so discord briefly what is it well discord can be used in a number of different
ways primarily it's used as a way to communicate on text channels or also for voice and audio you
can also use it for video as well however what discord has more become these days is more of
a community tool to create and build communities that interlink with other communities for example
my particular discord is primarily used to communicate when i'm not streaming more and
more recently i've been using it on youtube to allow people to join the server ask questions
get help and just become part of my community but people use discord in all kinds of different ways
and that's the beauty of discord it's just got so much flexibility built into it inherently that it
works really really well and for that reason it looks like microsoft are going to be spending
10 billion to acquire discord it remains to be seen what microsoft will do to it they might make
it better it might make it worse who knows but for now it's very much a big part of most content
creators online lifestyle so first of all to add the channels you're gonna need to visit discord.gg
or discord.com you can actually open discord in the browser and there is a browser friendly
version of it this god's also available for mobile mac windows so i'm actually going to go ahead and
click back here we want to be downloading discord and installing this to your device of choice
however almost all of the functions that you do on desktop you can do on mobile as well with discord
we'll open up this code on desktop and we're going to just dive straight into this now first of all
to add a server you can go to this plus icon on the left hand side and click it you do have the
option to join servers as well if you actually don't want to add one i'm going to go ahead
and click create my own here we need to decide whether it's for a couple community or for me and
my friends this is quite an important decision because if this is just a sort of a throwaway
discord for you and a few of your friends discord don't need to give you as much functionality and
they also don't need to overcomplicate things for you they can narrow down the functionality whereas
if you're trying to create a community it opens up a little bit more functionality i'm going to
go ahead and set up a community you can upload a photo got the option here to name the discord
server test server go ahead and click create now fundamentally we've actually set up the server
there but obviously there's a lot more things you can do with this and i'll link some further videos
below on how you can make the most of your discord server how you can add channels edit channels how
you can link it to twitch auto assign roles add bots and all sorts of things like that for now
i'm just going to touch on some of the key points of every server so that you know as a starting
point from this video some of the things that you could do so straight away we were able to invite
friends or send messages within the thread and you start with a basic text channel and a basic voice
channel just on the left hand side here a video that i'll link below will show you how you can add
and edit an amend and make the best of these text and voice channels and also the categories as well
that they sit under you can have multiple categories for example in my server i have
chat and feedback subscriber only sections news and self promotion streamer help content things
like that if we click into the server settings in the top left hand corner here we have got
the option to invite people server settings creating channels and categories notification
settings for the server and that's notifications to you privacy settings changing the nickname and
hide muted channels in other words if you've muted any channels in a particular server it will hide
them and just condense them down we're going to go ahead and click into server settings and go into
some of the key points within here i'm first gonna cover the overview we can rename the server and
redo the logo here we can actually set an inactive channel for voice channels as well so someone's
in a voice channel if you've created a second channel for example an afk channel you could
set the afk channel to be the inactive channel or you can just say no channel and then also say
what duration of timeout there is for example if someone's in active 15 minutes it will also place
them in a inactive channel can choose whether you want system messages here for example random
welcome messages messages when people boost the server and helpful tips for service setup you can
toggle these on and off depending on your level of expertise and then you can also choose where
these messages are sent to as well the specific thread you can also set default notification
settings as well whether someone within the server will get all messages or only at mentions i would
highly recommend setting this to only at mentions because this straight away cuts down the amount of
spam that the people in your discord are going to receive we're going to go ahead and save changes
here now we're just going to cover some basic roles within here by default you have the everyone
role and i'll link another video which goes into a lot more detail about roles but just to scratch
the surface a little bit here the at everyone role is a standard default captural role for anyone on
discord and you can set the permissions for this generally what people tend to do with this is set
the at everyone role to be highly restricted and then add a secondary role which is like a verified
role and then they open up more permissions with the verified role they would perhaps auto sign
that role when people have agreed to the rules you can use bots to enable that type of functionality
and there's a load of other functionality you can add to discord as well so roles within discord
are highly tailorable obviously from a permissions point of view but also the name and the colour of
them people use discord roles to restrict content to open up content to create exclusive content and
also in a number of other ways just to like define the types of content that certain types of people
might want to see but also you can just have like badges and badges of honor and things like that
you can almost like gamification your own discord servers with certain badges if you want to take
it that far i'm going to just go ahead and show you an example creating a role here we'll create
a new role called uh verified so i like to use emojis throughout the categories and also the
channels and even within the roles because it just makes them pop a little bit because this
is a verified server i'm going to take a check mark i'm just going to add that at the end of the
roll name so i'm going to go ahead and add this as a green color but i'm not fond of that particular
color so i'm just going to refine the core a little bit try and match this tick there somewhere
they look about the same if you've got a specific hex value that you want to use you can do that can
now set the different permissions if we want and once we're finished with this just need to click
save changes there press escape now anyone in the server we can right click and give them a verified
role or again you can use bots to auto assign some of those some other things you can do with your
discord server you can upload emojis custom emojis to your server i'll link a video below on how you
can do that there's some moderation settings that you can auto apply to your server including the
ability to have content scanned by discord for red flags there's an audit log you can look at
integrations within the discord server for example web hooks twitch youtube there's loads of other
integrations that you can do here you can even create widgets from your server as well in case
you wanted to create like a badge of discord and place it somewhere else for example on a website
you can also create a template of your server so say for example you want to create a backup of
your server or maybe you want to create a copy of your server and give it to somebody else there's
also some user management stuff here creating invites bans and also just a summary of the
members and their particular categories and you can filter the categories down by the roles that
you've added lastly i'm just going to very briefly go over some missions that are available to you
when designing your server and these permissions are available at roll level at channel level and
even at category level as well and you can set hierarchies for them too the first of all you're
able to display your role members separately from online members and this just means that you can
have different roles separated show an example of this on my server here i've got mods separated out
twitch subscribers and verified subscribers got the ability within the roles to allow people to
view channels manage channels manage roles manage emojis some of the main things here are allowing
people to kick or ban members obviously you want to save that privilege for your moderators or
even just yourself and then there's quite a lot of permissions you can add for channels for example
allowing people to send messages embed links use external emojis add reactions things like that
similar thing for voice channels here as well whether or not someone can actually speak connect
listen or not whether they can use video whether they become a priority speaker so i'm just going
to go over very quickly adding another channel i'm going to add a new channel called food drink
that's literally created that channel and we can now drag and drop this channel elsewhere
i'm going to now also create a new category called discord content great category this category i'm
going to drag to the top here so we've got general text channels but i'm going to put
discord content i'm going to drop the food and drink within the discord content can now set the
permissions at either the channel level here or at the category level here and here's an example
of what that looks like for my content i've got 24-hour streams clips not safe for work stuff
hobbies memes so they have it hopefully that gives you a little bit of a flavor of the
types of things that are available on discord in terms of setting it up and the types of things
you can do for roles for permissions channels categories really we've only just scratched the
tip of the iceberg here and i'm really keen to see what you guys can come up with in terms of
your discords feel free to talk about the things that you've done in your discord in the comments
below i'd appreciate if you liked the video if you want to subscribe feel free to take care
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