Discord Server Playbook
Step-by-step guides, tutorials, and reference docs to help you build, grow, and manage your Discord server.
F1 Discord Server: Set Up Channels, Events and Race Watch-Alongs
Running an F1 Discord server for race weekends? This wiki covers a channel layout, spoiler tags and spoiler channels, Scheduled Events for every session, Stage watch-alongs, prediction polls, AutoMod, slowmode and team roles.
Discord Passkeys: How to Set Up Passwordless Login and Security Keys
Discord passkeys let you log in with your fingerprint, face or screen lock instead of a password, and they resist phishing. This guide covers how to add one on mobile and desktop, how security keys differ, backup codes and fixes when a passkey stops working.
Discord Game Servers: How to Create, Join and Manage One
Discord Game Servers let you spin up a hosted Minecraft, Palworld, Rust or Valheim server from inside Discord, using Server Boosts or a direct subscription. This guide covers plans, supported games, setup, joining, statuses and limits.
Discord Enhanced Role Styles: Gradient and Holographic Roles Guide
Discord Enhanced Role Styles let server admins give roles a gradient or animated holographic colour. This guide covers how to unlock them with 3 Boosts, how to set them up, how they work with Boost Levels, and how to turn off the animation.
Discord Server Tags: How to Unlock, Customise and Wear Them
Discord Server Tags are 4-character labels that members can wear next to their name across Discord. This guide covers how admins unlock them with 3 Boosts, how to customise the tag and badge, how members apply them, and every Badge Pack.
Discord Server Discovery: Requirements and How to Enable It
Discord Server Discovery lets anyone find and join your server without an invite, and now gives it a public web page on Google. This guide covers every requirement, how to enable it step by step, the Discovery Guidelines and how to turn it off.
Discord Push to Talk: How to Set It Up, Change the Key and Fix It
Discord Push to Talk only sends your voice while you hold a key, so friends never hear your keyboard, room or game. This guide covers how to turn it on, pick a key, set the release delay, and fix Push to Talk when it stops working in games.
Discord Profile Widgets: How to Add, Edit and Show Your Games
Discord Profile Widgets let you show your favourite game, what you're playing, your wishlist and even live game stats on your profile. This guide covers every widget type, how to add and manage them, and who can see them.
WARDOGS Season 2: New Weapons, Tanks and Rain, and Why Discord Is Busy
WARDOGS Season 2 landed on 15 October with four new guns, a T-72B3 tank, a Gepard anti-air vehicle, Molotovs and rain. Here's everything in the update, what changed in balance and how to find a squad on the 500K-member Discord.
Discord LFG Channels: How to Post and Join Game Sessions
Discord LFG Channels are a new channel type for posting and joining live game sessions inside a server. This guide covers how they work, who has them, how to make and join a post, and how to fix a missing invite card.
Scam With Your Friends: The Co-op Game Blowing Up on Discord
Scam With Your Friends puts you and your friends in a fake call centre, talking AI callers out of their savings. It's one of the fastest-growing games on Discord this week. Here's what it is, how it works and where to find its community.
How to Change Discord Username and Display Name in 2026
Your username, display name and server nickname are three different things on Discord. Here's how to change your Discord username, update your display name any time, set server nicknames and style your name with Nitro.
Discord Soundboard: How to Use, Add and Manage Sounds
Discord Soundboard lets you play short sound clips for everyone in a voice channel. This guide covers how to play sounds on desktop and mobile, upload your own, manage permissions, set an entrance sound and turn the volume down.
Discord Family Center: How Discord's Parental Controls Work
Discord Family Center lets parents see who their teen talks to, set content filters, cap spending and schedule downtime, without reading messages. This guide covers what it shows, what parents can control and how to connect.
Discord Nitro Rewards: Every Perk and How to Claim It
Nitro Rewards gives Discord Nitro members extra perks like Xbox Game Pass, gear discounts and game items. This reference lists every current reward, who qualifies, how to claim each one and what to do when a reward won't show.
