⚠️ Disclaimer
⁠I am not officially affiliated with any of the bots mentioned. I’ve spent a lot of time working with these tools, offering feedback, and helping communities implement them over the years, and it’s possible that some of that input influenced certain features. All recommendations are personal and based on real‑world use.

Aside from bots that help with the essential logistics of your server, you can also get bots that serve the purpose of enriching the user experience. Automating voice channel creation, setting role conditions, highlighting streamers and content creators, collecting data about server activity: there are many different types of utility bots you can use to automate processes and dedicate a space to a special group.

Automating Voice Channels - DittoVC

Instead of creating voice channels for your community hanging out together manually, consider using a bot like DittoVC. This bot dynamically creates voice channels as they're needed, and automatically deletes them as soon as they are no longer used. Members decide when their voice channels are available to join and can invite other members directly on Discord. Never have too many or too few voice channels ever again!

You can self-host DittoVC, but you can also invite the bot by clicking here. ⁠Members click on a predetermined voice channel like "🔊➕ Create Voice Channel" and it will create a new voice channel to move them into. When everyone connected leaves, the VC is deleted. Owners of a VC get control over who can join, the name of the channel and more. 

⁠Make sure details and instructions are posted in a separate channel like "#vc-info" so everyone knows the rules and available commands.

Advanced Role Logic - RoleLogic

When you're looking for advanced role logic to fix more complicated workflows, RoleLogic is very helpful in bridging some gaps. You can set conditions like "Has Some Roles" or "At Least N Roles" and many more to enable you to link multiple roles and actions to member activity.

Next to a handful on conditions, there's supported platforms and accounts like Steam, Twitch, and YouTube to set platform-specific conditions to link up to in your Discord community. These can allow you to get pretty creative with assigning certain roles automatically, like based on playtime, subscriber count, or even form responses. There's already a bunch of integrations and new ones keep popping up all the time. Very impressed!

Starboard

The starboard is like a highlight reel of the community. If you have a lot of content being shared, this might be a good fit for your community. Basically, members can vote on messages they like with a predetermined emoji, and if the emoji reaction hits a threshold the bot will embed the post in a separate channel. Use a custom emoji to further personalize this and you’ve got your own community Hall of Fame.

Giveaways

For simple giveaways, Giveawaybot is an excellent choice as it is easy to setup and allows users to partake in the randomly drawn winners by clicking on an emoji reaction. Giveaway Boat is also a good contender and comes with a bunch of customization. I also have a giveaway feature on my own bot with automated prize delivery and legal compliance. Check out the details here.

Highlighting streams & videos

Highlighting Twitch streams is easily done with Streamcord. You can set up to 25 streamers to announce when they go live, and add users to a “now live” role if you want to highlight them on your server.

If you want to get more advanced control of Twitch and YouTube content, a reliable bot is Couchbot but it comes at a premium for $1 a month. At this tier, you get 5 content creators on each platform for 2 servers. Starting at $3 a month, you can even filter by games or teams, allowing you to not only push your own live streams automatically, but also post streamers playing certain games (like yours!). The setup can be a bit rough with toggle commands only though, so be sure to follow the documentation.

Social media feeds

Posting social media feeds comes in two flavors: webhooks and bots. Websites that host free webhook options like IFTTT and Zapier allow you to push a platform to a Discord channel, but this requires creating an account and only allows a limited amount of connections. Setting up content like tweets to be posted through a webhook is relatively easy though, and - as far as I know - the only true free
option.

As for bots, the amount of connections varies and the speed of live notifications can vary as well, just like webhooks can be rate limited. You can stick to Dyno for Twitch and YouTube or try YAGPDB, but social media, Steam and websites are best to use with an RSS bot like MonitoRSS. You can set up 5 blog posts, news feeds or social media feeds for free with 15 minute intervals, provided you have a working RSS link.

💡Tip
⁠If you need some guidance with setting up a webhook to push Tweets/X’s, or want to integrate Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube, Steam, a website/blog and/or RSS feeds, try my Social Media integrations guide for Discord.

Collecting data

Statbot allows you to collect data about your server activity. With statistics about messages, users and voice activity, it paints a good picture of who is most active in your server and what the high-traffic channels are. You can also assign roles based on the stats automatically if you want to reward active users on your server with a special role, and control what channels are exempt from collecting data.

💡Tip
⁠When you reach 500 members, you can use Discord’s official Server Insights to view more data about your server. These statistics offer fine-grained controls, but a dedicated but usually captures more/different data points.

Next up: Entertainment

Check out entertainment bot features in the next guide, covering Economy and Leaderboards.