Server Template Gallery

Six ready-made channel and role layouts, deliberately small. Copy one as JSON, or apply it to your server with the discords.ai bot.

Templates

Each one is the smallest layout that still does the job.

General community

One place to talk, one place for rules, one voice channel. Add channels when a conversation actually needs its own room, not before.

Start here

  • rulesRead before posting. Enforced, not decorative.
  • announcementsServer news. Staff post, everyone reads.
  • introductionsSay hello and tell us what brought you here.

Community

  • generalThe main chat. Anything goes within the rules.
  • mediaImages, clips and links.
  • off-topicTangents that would derail general.
  • Voice Chat

Roles

ModeratorRegularMember

2 categories · 7 channels · 3 roles

Roles are created with no permissions. You decide what each one can do afterwards, which is why applying a template can never change who can do what in a server that already exists.

Use it

Run /build in a server with the discords.ai bot, or take the JSON for your own tooling.

/build A small general-purpose community server

The bot previews the layout and creates nothing until you confirm. It only ever adds — it never renames, reorders or deletes anything already there.

{
  "summary": "A small general-purpose community server.",
  "categories": [
    {
      "name": "Start here",
      "channels": [
        {
          "name": "rules",
          "kind": "text",
          "topic": "Read before posting. Enforced, not decorative."
        },
        {
          "name": "announcements",
          "kind": "announcement",
          "topic": "Server news. Staff post, everyone reads."
        },
        {
          "name": "introductions",
          "kind": "text",
          "topic": "Say hello and tell us what brought you here."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Community",
      "channels": [
        {
          "name": "general",
          "kind": "text",
          "topic": "The main chat. Anything goes within the rules."
        },
        {
          "name": "media",
          "kind": "text",
          "topic": "Images, clips and links."
        },
        {
          "name": "off-topic",
          "kind": "text",
          "topic": "Tangents that would derail general."
        },
        {
          "name": "Voice Chat",
          "kind": "voice"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "roles": [
    {
      "name": "Moderator",
      "color": 3066993
    },
    {
      "name": "Regular",
      "color": 3447003
    },
    {
      "name": "Member",
      "color": 0
    }
  ]
}

Small on purpose

The most common mistake in a new server is forty channels and four members. Every channel is dead, nobody knows where to post, and the emptiness itself puts people off — a server with three busy channels feels alive in a way one with thirty quiet ones never does.

So each layout here is the smallest shape that still does the job. Add channels when a conversation actually outgrows the one it is in, which is a problem worth having and a decision worth making with real members rather than in advance.

Forum channels

Several templates use forum channels rather than text channels for questions, critique and bug reports. The difference matters: a question asked in a chat channel scrolls away in an hour and gets asked again next week, while the same question as a forum thread stays findable and answerable months later.

Roles carry no permissions

Every role in every template is created with zero permissions. That is a deliberate limit, not an omission. A template that shipped permission bitfields could change who can do what in a server that already exists, and no layout is worth that risk — so the shape these templates are written in has nowhere to put one.

The same applies to applying one. The discords.ai bot only ever adds: it has no code path that renames, reorders or deletes anything already in your server, so running /build on an established community cannot damage it.