hello there and welcome i'm machine dana i hope you're having a really really good day
in this video i'm going to show you how you can add server stats or service statistics to your
discord server so basically a text channel that updates the number of total members in your server
and shows it on like the left-hand side where all your channels are it's just a convenient thing
that you can show to other people or for yourself as a visual representation it's a neat little tool
i saw this on someone else's server shout out to lewis for this i thought he looked pretty cool so
i wanted to add it to my server and he suggested a bot for me to use for this and it seems to work
pretty well and you can get this set up in like two or three minutes it's really really easy to
do so in the video i'm going to show you exactly how you can set it up how you can install it
uninstall it how you can configure it and also a couple of things that you shouldn't do with this
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so what we're looking to do is something along the lines of this which is to have sort of server
stats we can see the number of members in my server so i'm actually first going to start by
showing you how to uninstall this server stats bot we're going to go into the server settings
by clicking on the server settings here click server settings i'm going to go to integrations
and we can see a few bots and apps that have been authorized here we've got the service stats but
here i'm going to just manage this i'm going to remove integrations that's removed that bot from
my channel and we'll see now this basically will not update this channel here will not update so i
can just actually delete this channel it's my live server by the way i should probably do this on my
test server here so the bot that i'm using here the one that's been suggested to me is one called
server starts you can see server stats bot.com there's a little bit of help here some command
plans status and a little bit about the developer it's a pretty straightforward landing page you
just get to this invite the bot section here there's a million plus servers this has been
added to and there's 28 different types of counters you can add and here's some of the
examples you can see here all members members bots number online donors things like that so we're
going to invite the bot here now doing this whilst i'm logged into my server discord will basically
register that i'm logged in here if you're not logged in or you don't have discord open it will
probably prompt you to log into your discord i'm gonna click invite bot here the bot's gonna ask
me which server i want to add it to i'll add it to my main server apparently it won't read me a
bedtime story so i'm really disappointed about this but okay you might not read me a bedtime
story but hopefully the bot will do some other stuff that'll impress me we'll click and continue
on this authorize it this will then add it to your discord server once you've done that
thanks for adding the service that's some basic information here the key takeaway and main problem
that you may not have is that the bot itself doesn't respond and that's likely to be that
the bot itself doesn't have the right permissions to respond in a particular channel so it says here
always check the right the member list first if the bot is in the server but not showing up
then check the permissions the bot always needs the send message permission and the embed links
permission so just bear that in mind so here back in my server we can now see that we've got server
stats here i'm going to right click on this and i'm going to give it a roll called bot and i know
that bot has all the right permissions to allow the bots to do what it needs to do and it also
just puts it into the bot section here i do have another video all about setting up amazing roles
which includes some information about permissions and things like that i will link that like
above in the card so as you can see we still don't actually have the counter here we need to add this
so to start the setup process we can either just type s forward slash setup or can simply just tag
the server stats bot itself and it'll give us some more prompts and information but if you
specifically tag it with the word setup after it will then start the setup so let's say just
choose any channel for here i'm going to actually just create a new channel which will be an admin
channel it'll be a text channel just so i can delete this channel later this
admin channel will have synchronized its permissions to this particular category
and now i'm just going to mention the server stats bot and press enter so i've basically
tagged the bot to wake it up a little bit by just literally typing its name in here
and the service stats box come back and it says my current prefix is s forward slash use s forward
slash help to see all of the commands so we'll go ahead and do that so these are all the different
commands there's normal commands info commands and admin commands there's loads of different
things you can do about this like pulling data welcoming and goals doing checks debugging things
like that we're just going to go through the setup process today to add server stats basic
counter to the server so to start the bot with s forward slash setup or server stats setup
now we need to choose which type of channel we want to use this for so you can add it to a text
channel or a voice channel an announcement stage or you press cancel to just cancel that command
altogether i'm going to just simply say text here because i want it to be at the start under
a text channel the setup has been started it will take a couple of seconds to finish so please wait
a moment by default this bot has already added a all members a members and then a bots text channel
within a new server category called server stats now you might already be happy with that i don't
particularly want to have the bots one here so i'm going to delete the bots one and now that you've
got members and all members i might as well just delete one of these and that's actually it here
now the bot does say within the help section that you can actually rename these channels as
long as you leave at least one number at the end of the name of the channel but when i tested this
it didn't work very well for me so just be careful with this if you do rename the channel i think you
need to leave at least one number at the end or you could just leave it as it is and you've
actually got the server stats here now what will happen here the setup has been complete we've got
a confirmation and it will automatically update the counter every 10 minutes and now we can also
do an s forward slash counter command here just to see all of the different types of counters that
this spot has so let's do that here are all the different counters so the ones relating to members
channels and categories roles emojis and of course things relating to boosts so for example you may
just want to give people a prompt to boost and show the boost one there so let's just go ahead
as an example and set up a roll to count how many mods there are in this server so we'll do
s counter roll so i actually made a mistake here instead of s counter roll we actually just need
to do s counter and then create from here the bot guides us on what counter we want to add to the
channel so i've said here i want to go with one that is a roll i'm just going to type roll here
once again i'm going to select text and now it's asking me which role specifically i want to count
now at this point you don't just write the name you've got to either copy the id of the role
or you've got to mention the role itself i'm just going to go ahead and mention mods here
in response and we get a confirmation that it's turned the roll counter on as a text channel here
now again we are able to rename this to mods when i did test this i did have some problems with it
so just bear that in mind you may want to just leave it as is this is a pretty useless channel
without me editing this and renaming it to mods count and then again we just want to put like a
number at the end at least one number save changes and i believe every 10 minutes that will now be
updated by the bots if you do have any issues with this obviously i'll try to answer in the comments
below let me know but if i fail to answer or i miss your message or something like that you can
get support by going to servicestatsbot.com and clicking on the get support
there you have it how to easily add a counter to your discord to count how many members there are
or roles or or emojis or any kind of things like that really keen to see how you guys use this
let me know in the comments how creatively you're using this if you've got any good
ideas probably going to steal them so don't be surprised if i do steal your really good ideas
hopefully you found this useful if you did hit the like and have a great day take care