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Bot Updates is a blog-style changelog built into the dashboard. New posts appear at the top, styled exactly like the Discord embeds the bot sends, so you can catch up on new features at a glance. Open Dashboard → General → Bot Updates.
This view is available to every logged-in user — it is not tied to a server or a tier.

The unread badge

The Bot Updates sidebar link shows a red badge with the number of posts you haven’t seen yet. Opening the view clears the badge. Unread state is tracked in your browser (localStorage) — there is no account-level read state, so the badge is per-device. Reading the feed on your laptop won’t clear it on your phone. Nothing is stored server-side for unread tracking, and no cookies are used.

Reactions

Each post has a thumbs up and thumbs down button with a running count. Click one to react; click the same one again to remove your reaction; click the other to switch. Your reaction is saved to your account, so it persists across devices and sessions.

Posting an update (bot owner)

Updates are authored from the admin panel, reusing the existing embed editor.
1

Open Admin → Post Updates

Compose a message or embed with the live preview, exactly as before.
2

Pick where it goes

Two checkboxes at the top-right of the compose card control the destinations:
DestinationWhat it does
Post to DiscordBroadcasts to every guild that has an update channel configured (the original behaviour).
Post to DashboardAdds the post to the Bot Updates feed in the dashboard.
Tick either or both. At least one must be selected.
3

Send now or schedule

Sending immediately writes the dashboard post straight away; the Discord broadcast (if selected) runs through the bot and reports its result. Scheduled posts fire at the set time and honour the same two checkboxes.

Managing posted updates

The Posted Updates card at the top of the panel lists what you’ve already sent — title, date, and where it went (Discord / Dashboard). Choose how many to show (5 / 25 / 50) and page through them. Each row has a delete button. Deleting an update:
  • removes it from the dashboard feed immediately, and
  • tells the bot to delete the messages it posted in Discord update channels (across every guild it broadcast to).
Delete works on both destinations automatically based on where the update was originally posted — a Discord-only update cleans up its Discord messages, a dashboard-only update just disappears from the feed, and a “both” update does both.

Uploading an image

The compose card has an Upload image field. Pick a PNG/JPG/GIF (max 5 MB) and it’s uploaded to private storage, giving you a URL you can Copy or apply straight to the embed with Set as Image / Set as Thumbnail. These uploads are kept separate from the server Image Library — they don’t appear there or to other users.

Linking to a feature with {site}

Inside the message you can use the relative token {site} anywhere a URL goes — most usefully inside a markdown link in the description:
[Open Codes Drop Portals →]({site}/index.html)
{site} is expanded to the full website address when the post is shown:
  • In Discord, it becomes the bot’s public site URL (so links are absolute, as Discord requires).
  • In the dashboard feed, it resolves to the site you’re currently on (local or production).
This lets one post link correctly from both places without hard-coding a domain.