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Add a TheDiscordList badge to your website or README
Every listed server and bot gets a small live badge with its member, server or upvote count. It links to your listing, updates itself, and takes ten seconds to...
Oct 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Guides for growing a Discord worth joining
Playbooks, tactics and platform know-how from the team behind TheDiscordList — how to get discovered, rank higher, run great bots and keep your community safe.
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The Best DISBOARD Alternatives for Listing Your Discord Server
DISBOARD is the default, not the only option. Here is how the main alternatives work, what each is good at, and how to add a second listing in a few minutes wit...
Oct 24, 2026 · 5 min read
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Upvote your server from inside Discord
The official TheDiscordList bot brings voting into your own server. One slash command, no browser tab, and the vote counts exactly as it would on the site. Here...
Oct 2, 2026 · 3 min read
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Why Your Discord Server Stopped Growing
A flat member graph is a symptom with at least five different causes, and the fix for one makes the others worse. Diagnose before you touch anything.
Aug 12, 2026 · 5 min read
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How to Turn Lurkers Into Regulars on Discord
Most of your members have never sent a message and never will. A small slice of them are one low-friction opening away from becoming your most active people.
Aug 12, 2026 · 5 min read
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Discord Server Partnerships: How to Find and Pitch Them
Partnerships are the highest-converting traffic a small server can get, and most owners burn their shot with a copy-pasted DM. Here's how to pick targets, write...
Aug 12, 2026 · 6 min read
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The First 10 Members: Seeding a Discord Server That Feels Alive
An empty server kills itself. The first ten members decide whether the eleventh stays, and you get almost no second chances at that impression.
Aug 12, 2026 · 5 min read
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How to Grow a Discord Server from 0 to 1,000 Members
Getting to 1,000 members is three separate problems, not one. Here is what actually works at each stage, and which tactics are a waste of time until you're read...
Aug 11, 2026 · 5 min read
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How to Promote Your Discord Server Without Getting Banned
Most promotion bans come from four repeatable mistakes. Here's what crosses the line at Discord's level versus a server's level, and the channels that reliably...
Aug 11, 2026 · 5 min read
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Discord Vanity URLs: How to Get One and Whether It Is Worth It
A vanity URL costs a stack of Server Boosts and buys you a shorter link. Here is what it actually changes, what it does not, and what to do while you wait to qu...
Aug 11, 2026 · 5 min read
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Get a Discord message the moment your server is bumped
Webhooks now tell you when your listing is bumped, upvoted or joined — as a message in your own channel, or as JSON if you run a backend.
kyzegsAug 10, 2026 · 5 min read Growth
Free Premium by Inviting Friends: The Referral Program
Share one link. Every friend who lists a server that passes review earns you a token, and tokens buy real premium time on your own listing — Platinum for one, D...
kyzegsAug 1, 2026 · 4 min readReady to put this into practice?
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