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Connect Usherr to your Discord serverAdministrators

Your own Discord bot posts watch parties and reviews in your server. Make it once in Discord’s Developer Portal, paste its token, invite it.

In Broadcast: Server, People, Community.
In Classic or Neu: Settings, Movie night, Community.

  1. Make the bot

    On a computer, open discord.com/developers/applications and sign in with your Discord account. The first time, Discord asks what brings you there: pick Build a Bot and press Continue to Portal. Press New Application, name it Usherr (or anything you like), tick the box and press Create.

  2. Its token, and one switch

    Open Bot on the left. Press Reset Token, then Copy: that long text is the token. Further down, under Privileged Gateway Intents, switch on Message Content Intent (so Usherr can read chat and #review) and press Save Changes. To make it private (only you can invite it): first open Installation on the left, set Install Link to None and save; then back in Bot, switch off Public Bot and save. Usherr gives you its own invite link.

  3. A channel for Usherr

    In your Discord server, make a text channel such as #usherr-showtimes. While you try it out, make it private (only you), and add the bot to it after inviting it.

  4. Community

    Under Server, People (in Classic or Neu: Settings, Movie night).

  5. Paste the token

    Paste it in Bot token and press Save and connect. Usherr keeps it encrypted and never shows it again.

  6. Connected?

    A green light and Connected as your bot’s name. If a yellow note says Message Content is off, go back to Bot in the Developer Portal and switch it on: the rest works without it.

  7. Invite it

    Press Invite the bot, choose your server and press Authorize. Your server shows here by itself a moment later. For a private channel: in Discord, open the channel’s settings, then Permissions, and add the bot.

  8. Where it posts

    Choose the server, then the channel. It saves by itself.

  9. Post a test card

    Press it and look in the channel in Discord: a card says Usherr is connected. If it says the bot isn’t allowed, give the bot View Channel, Send Messages and Embed Links in that channel’s Permissions.

  10. Usherr is in your Discord

    The bot stays connected while Usherr runs. Next, link your own Discord account with /link, and ask the others in the house to do the same.