How do I set up Member joins channel?
Pick a channel and every new member gets a card showing how old their Discord account is, which invite they used, and who made that invite. The picker lives in the Moderation Hub, on the Joining & Leaving tab, and it is the single most useful thing you can turn on for spotting trouble early.
Where to find it
On the website: open your league, click Moderation in the sidebar, then open the Joining & Leaving tab. Look for the Telling You Who Came And Went card.
On your phone: More → Moderation, then pick Joining & Leaving from the dropdown at the top of the page.
What it does
Posts a card whenever somebody joins your server — when their Discord account was created and how old it is, when they joined, which invite they used, who made that invite, and how many times it has been used.
Step by step
- Make a commissioners-only channel —
#joinsor#member-log. - On the Joining & Leaving tab, find the Telling You Who Came And Went card and set Member Joins Channel to it.
- Set Member Departures Channel on the same card so you see both ends, then press Save These Channels.
The switch that stops the cards
Post Member Join Cards sits under the channel picker on the same card. It is on unless you turn it off.
Off, joins go unannounced — no card is posted for anybody new. The channel above stays saved, so switching it back on starts the cards again with nothing to set up.
Why the account age matters
A brand-new Discord account joining a league is not automatically a problem, but it is the shape a ban-evader and a raid both have. Seeing it on the card means you notice at the door instead of afterwards.
Which invite they used is the other half. It tells you which of your links is bringing people in, whether an old link you forgot about is still circulating, and — when invite XP is on — who is about to be paid for the join.
Common problems
- The invite is blank. Discord only attributes a join to an invite it can still see. A deleted invite, or a vanity URL, credits nobody. The bot also needs the Manage Server permission in Discord to read invite data — without it the card still posts, but the invite lines read unknown.
- Nothing posts. Three things to check, in this order: Post Member Join Cards is switched off, the channel is not set, or your league has no active license — join and departure cards only run for licensed leagues.
- Can members see this? Only if you let them. Most leagues keep it to commissioners.
- I can't see this setting. Ask your league owner — the tabs a helper can open are set in Front Office → League Access, in the Tab Access list.