if someone is going to subscribe to your twitch channel it means they like and want to support
your content and in turn that means you need to show them that they're important and you
appreciate what they're doing one of the best and easiest ways to do this is by setting up a
twitch subscriber role in your discord today i'm going to be showing you guys how to link your
discord through with your twitch to make it more discoverable how to make sure the subscriber role
is working automatically so you don't have to do anything at all how to set up the subscriber role
and generally i want to cover a lot of points that i think when i first started the tutorials
that i watched didn't cover with this and i've had to kind of stumble across along the way let's go
hey guys my name is Eljay with streamscheme.com i'm also a variety streamer over at
twitch.tv/eljayem_ links to both those in the descriptions and today i'm gonna be showing you
guys how to add a bit more incentive for people to subscribe to your twitch stream now we are
gonna be doing this by setting up subscriber roles on discord but before you go anywhere
because you're not an affiliate you really should watch this video anyway because at the end of the
day you're gonna need to know how to do this for when you reach affiliate and it'll give you a lot
of really solid tips when it comes to setting up your community's discord your roles and everything
along those lines as always i have time codes in the description and in the top comments so
use those to jump to wherever you need to go but let's just get into it one of the
reasons a discord is so crucial for every single streamer and every single twitch stream that is
is because a follow doesn't mean anything after you get your first 50 followers followers stop
mattering because at the end of the day a follow doesn't equal a viewer who's going
to return a follower just shows someone might want to have their name on screen
or express interest however joining a discord shows heavy intent that is someone who wants
to be a part of the community they want to make friends they want to engage with people
so if you don't have a discord server for your stream you're making a serious mistake and you're
going to really hamper how much you can grow and in turn once you have that discord set up if you
reach affiliate and people start subscribing all you have to do is follow through with these video
steps and suddenly half the people in your discord get a special subscriber role and they get special
subscriber channels where they can do things with you so before i get into the first step i do want
to check it out there what is the funniest or best discord channel you've ever seen in my
discord we have a channel called pet photos where people just post photos of their adorable pets
it is the best thing in my life don't tell my wife and at the end of the day if you also need help
setting up a discord server let me know exactly what you're curious about and i'll make a video on
that as well just want to help you guys out okay so let's get into the first step and get over to
the computer so the first step you're going to need to do whether you're a subscriber hoping to
join a stream is discord or if you're a streamer is connect your twitch to your discord this is
crucial so open up discord hit the cog wheel to go to your user settings and click connections
when you're in here you can click twitch and follow the steps to connect your twitch account
once you're done you'll see something like mine here see i haven't already linked so these are
all the channels who i've been gifted a twitch sub or i potentially follow so i can click join
in this connection step i want to quickly add something though you should review what is
displaying on your profile in this area the amount of people who i have had to give a quick heads up
to because they have their entire full name and personal information linked to their discord
and it's being displayed on their profile from facebook or spotify or something is a bit worrying
and almost every single one of them has freaked out when they've realized that's been the case
if you add a connection make sure you're not displaying it on the profile unless you're
absolutely comfortable too now that your personal discord is linked through the connections tab that
i showed you with your twitch account now we need to set up your server to be linked to your twitch
account as well before i do that though i'm gonna throw it out there if this video helps you out at
all maybe instead of checking out my other content i release videos weekly on all things twitch all
things streaming and we're gonna think about doing a few more discord videos so maybe subscribe and
check out my other content okay so we're gonna show you how to link that server to your twitch
account and then edit roles and create roles for subscribers let's get back over to the computer
so head over to the server that you want linked to your twitch click the drop down
arrow and click integrations on the menu so you'll want to integrate your twitch
and if you have linked everything properly you'll see something along the lines of this
what you'll want to do is you want to click sync and after doing that you'll be showing a lot of
new options such as synced roles here which is a role that has now been automatically created
and we'll show you how to edit that in a second you'll see how many of your subs have
synced their discord as well and then you'll have expired sub behavior as well as the grace period
the expired sub behavior explains what's going to happen when someone's twitch subscription runs out
say you have it set to two weeks and you have it set to remove subrole it means that after
two weeks if they haven't resubscribed they will lose their sub role in discord i have mine set
to 24 hours because we get a lot of gift subs on my channel and it just means that when those gift
subs run out within 24 hours they're removed from that automatically i just have mine so that they
lose their role however you can also set this up to kick them if you just want to subscribe only
discord but if you're small that's really going to hamper your growth but at the same time it
could be an incentive for people to continue their subscriptions that's entirely up to you to decide
i personally think it's a little bit extreme to kick someone when all you're trying to
do is build a community another thing you want to click while you're here is the allow synced
subscribers to use your twitch custom emoticons in discord button because why not let people use
your remotes wherever they go or whatever they do they're subscribed to you so they can use
them and it's good advertising so let's get into editing your subscriber roles i've been watching
a lot of tutorials about this to make sure that everything i'm gonna say is correct and make sure
it's covered properly and i noticed that a lot of tutorials said you need to create a role but
here's the thing you don't actually need to create a role here it would have already created the role
when you first synced everything up if you do want to make a whole new name and stuff you can
just edit the world it's already been created or you can make a new one and then change it here but
i kind of think that's just extra steps that you don't really need to cover it's too confusing so
let's just stick with using twitch subscribers for now so you've got everything linked up you
should have the twitch subscriber role automatically added to your discord
and we're gonna get into the editing definitions for that role so head back to the role section
click on twitch subscriber this is the base role here you'll see mine we have tier one
through three don't worry about that you can change the name here or the color
my subscribers are pink and i have display roll members separately from online members
meaning they appear on the side of discord under a heading that says twitch subscriber next you
have allow anyone to at mention this role i would recommend turning this off or else people can add
twitch subscriber and spam all of your subs now onto general permissions you'll see that i have
almost everything turned off here see twitch subs aren't admins or moderators i don't want to be
able to manage roles the server changing nicknames no kicking or banning all the way down until the
option where they turn on is read text channels and see voice channels because obviously we don't
have this turned on then they can't even use the discord so you've set up the permissions now the
second to last step is setting up the categories and channels for your subscribers to use
but before we get into that the very last step on this is the most important of everything so please
do not go anywhere we'll cover this step and the very last one is actually really really important
okay so you'll want to click the drop down on your server click create category and give it a name
such as subscriber channels click private you'll get an option to choose who can use this category
so you'll select your mods your twitch subscribers etc whatever roles you want to be able to use this
now once the channel or category has been created right click on it click edit category
click permissions click roll and you get a lot of options the slash means it inherits the settings
you chose when you made this role but a lot of new settings are here so we need to go through this
i'd recommend turning on and turning off the following turn on send messages turn off text to
speech because it can be spammy turn off manage since subs aren't mods they don't need to edit
it's up to you about embed links and attach files but i have it on because my mods will delete
anything bad in my channels i have read message history on which means when they first join they
can read back through the conversations or they can see announcements when it comes to mention
ads i have these off because again only mods and myself should be able to ping all the hundreds of
people in my discord use external emojis is up to you but i have nothing wrong with it so i have yes
and ad reactions is a big yes because people love reacting to content if you're planning on
adding voice channels which i think is a good idea turn on connect and speak but video i'd say it's
also up to you but i have it off don't let the mute definitely move members because again this
is more for moderators and the final one is voice activity i have this off but sometimes if you have
people with really bad mics and lots of noise you can enforce push to talk to make it a bit easier
on life so hit save on these permissions head back and click the plus next to the category to create
a channel you'll get three options text voice and announcements just hit text for now click private
click twitch subscriber roles or whatever your name for your twitch subscribers are don't forget
to name the new channel as well right click edit channel permissions and click sync now this will
sync the channel to the permissions you set up for the category this is the same for your voice
channel as well the only time you want to create a new channel in this category that you don't have
the same synced permissions is for example you're creating an announcement channel or a channel
you don't want the subs to see in that case you won't sync it you'll just create your whole new
permissions just for that one so i have one where they can't send messages but they can also just
read it and add reactions this is my announcement or my kind of like news channel for the subs so
you're almost done but the final step is the most important and it is a brand new feature discord
only just brought out lj why is it so important to do this last step well if you don't do this last
step you could be trying to settle this up and you have no way to know whether or not it worked so
what you're going to do is you're going to go back to your role settings click on twitch subscriber
and click view server as this role it will show you everything the role can do and see i know that
sounds simple but it is crucial because if you don't do this you could set everything up and then
wonder why people aren't using a certain channel or a certain voice thing but at the end of the day
they can't even see it but you can because you're an admin speaking of troubleshooting if you have
any issues or any concerns or you need help with anything chuck it in the comments down below i
answer every single person or if you want you can even reach out to us on twitter or you can check
me out when i'm live and i'm happy to help where i can with all that out of the way you now have sub
channels set up on your discord i hope it helped i hope the screen recordings were clear enough
for you guys i create videos weekly so think about subscribing and i will see you next week