Autoping

#Overview

When someone joins, Utilities pings them in the channels you choose and deletes the ping straight away. They get a notification that points them to the channel, and the channel itself stays clean. Use it to send new members to your rules, your verification channel, or your shop.

#Getting started

1. Add a channel. Run /autoping add and pick a text channel. Add as many as your plan allows.

2. Optionally, add a message. Run /autoping message set to send a few words with the ping, like where to start.

3. Check the list. /autoping list shows every channel new members are pinged in.

/autoping add channel:#rules
/autoping message set message:Start here!

#How the pings are sent

• Joins are grouped. Utilities waits 5 seconds after someone joins and then pings everyone who arrived in that time together, up to 12 people per message. During a raid, that's a few messages instead of hundreds.
• Each person is pinged once every 48 hours. Someone who leaves and rejoins within two days isn't pinged again.
• Pings are deleted right away, with or without a message. The person still sees the message in their notification.
• Bots aren't pinged when they're added to the server.

#The message

By default the ping is just the mentions. /autoping message set adds your own text in front of them. It uses the same message code as sticky messages, so it can include a saved embed with {embed:name} or a saved button with {button:name}. See Embeds and Buttons.

The mentions always go at the end. One message goes to every channel at once and can name several people, so variables about a member or a channel aren't filled in here. {prefix} works.

Run /autoping message set with nothing in it, or /autoping message reset, to go back to the ping on its own.

#Good to know

• Only text channels can be added.
• Pings are sent through a webhook, so Utilities needs Manage Webhooks in each channel. If it can't reach a channel, it skips that one and still pings the others.
• You need Manage Webhooks to use these commands.
• A server can use 2 autoping channels on Free, 25 on Tier 1 and 50 on Tier 2. See Premium.
• If your plan drops to a lower tier, only your first channels are pinged, up to the new limit. The rest come back when you upgrade again.

#Commands