Server Template Gallery
Six ready-made channel and role layouts, deliberately small. Copy one as JSON, or apply it to your server for free with /build template: in Discord.
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
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 then pick General community from the template list
Free, and it applies this exact layout rather than designing a new one. The bot previews it 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 template: on an established community cannot damage it. Picking a template costs nothing, because nothing is generated - only describing a server from scratch spends credits.