Supporter Roles
Your Twitch VIPs and your Twitch and Kick subscribers get a Discord role automatically once they link their account on kovu.gg.
New
- Supporter Roles: pick a role for Twitch VIPs, one for Twitch subscribers and one for Kick subscribers (or the same role for several). Kovu gives it while a member supports you and takes it off when the support ends: a VIP role at once, a subscriber role after a grace period, 3 days unless you pick another.
- Members link their accounts at kovu.gg/me/linked-accounts: Twitch from their Discord profile or by signing in with Twitch, Kick by signing in with Kick. Kovu keeps only the account’s ID and name.
- Members find that page through a Link my accounts panel, and the Supporter Roles page shows when each source last synced, with a Sync now button.
- Twitch subscriber roles start once your channel is Affiliate or Partner. Kick subscribers get theirs at their next renewal, since Kick doesn’t list existing ones.
How to use it
Give your supporters a role
Where: Dashboard, Supporter Roles
- Connect your Twitch or Kick channel in Song Requests, or reconnect Twitch once if it was connected before.
- Turn on Supporter Roles and Twitch roles or Kick roles.
- Pick the VIP and subscriber roles, below Kovu’s role and without elevated permissions.
- Pick a panel channel and save: Kovu posts the Link my accounts panel there.
- Press Sync now to read your Twitch VIPs and subscribers right away.
Tip: Kovu only takes off roles it gave, so a Subscriber role your staff gave by hand stays.
Link your Twitch or Kick account
Where: kovu.gg, My profile, Linked accounts
- Open kovu.gg/me/linked-accounts and sign in with Discord.
- Press Use my Twitch from Discord, or Link with Twitch or Link with Kick.
- Approve on Discord, Twitch or Kick, then come back to the page.
Tip: Your roles follow in every server with Supporter Roles that you support.
Forum Helper
A solved workflow for your help forums: the person who asked marks their post answered, and Kovu tags it, archives it and thanks whoever helped.
New
- Forum Helper: Kovu adds a Mark as answered button to every new post in the forums you pick. The person who asked or your staff press it, and Kovu adds your Solved tag, takes off your Open tag and keeps the post’s other tags. Reopen puts it back.
- When someone replies and the person who asked writes nothing for a while (24 hours unless you pick another time), Kovu asks them whether it’s solved, with Solved and Still need help buttons.
- Answered posts are archived after the time you pick, and locked too if you want. Posts with no new message for 7 days are archived as well.
- Answer credit: when the person who asked marks their post answered, they pick who helped. That member gets 1 rep and counts toward a new Forum answers badge type in Achievements.
How to use it
Set up a help forum
Where: Dashboard, Forum Helper
- In Discord, open the forum’s settings and create a Solved tag (turn on Only allow moderators to apply this tag) and, if you like, an Open tag.
- Turn on Forum Helper and choose Add forum.
- Pick the forum, then its Solved and Open tags.
- Choose when Kovu reminds the person who asked and when it archives answered and quiet posts, then save.
Tip: Kovu starts with posts made after you save; older posts aren’t tracked.
Thank the members who answer
Where: Dashboard, Forum Helper, Credit
- Keep Answer credit on, with Give 1 rep and Count toward achievements.
- Turn on Rep, and Achievements for badges.
- In Achievements, add a badge of the Forum answers type, such as one at 10 answers.
Tip: Only the person who asked gives credit, once per post. When staff mark a post answered, nobody gets credit.
Booster Perks
Every member who boosts your server gets a role of their own to name and color, with an icon from boost level 2.
New
- Booster Perks: when someone boosts, Kovu makes a role for them directly below a role you pick, such as Discord’s own Server Booster role. It starts with their name and no color.
- A Customize my role panel: its button opens a form where boosters change their role’s name and color, and its icon from an image or an emoji once the server is at boost level 2. One change a minute.
- Name rules: blocked words that also catch look-alike spellings, allowed exceptions, and a switch that refuses the names of your existing roles, so nobody becomes Admin.
- When a boost ends, the role stays for a grace period, 3 days unless you pick 0 to 14. Boosting again in that time keeps it.
- Up to 5 extra roles Kovu gives while someone boosts and takes back afterwards. Roles your staff gave by hand stay.
- The Booster Perks page shows your boosters and their roles, your server’s roles against Discord’s limit of 250, and whether role icons work, with Sync boosters and a Remove button for each role.
How to use it
Give your boosters their own role
Where: Dashboard, Booster Perks
- Turn on Booster Perks.
- Pick the anchor role, below Kovu’s highest role. Booster roles go directly under it.
- Add blocked words and pick the grace period.
- Pick a panel channel and save: Kovu posts the Customize my role panel there.
- Press Sync boosters to give a role to members who boosted before you turned it on.
Tip: Welcome & Leave already thanks boosters with its boost message, so Booster Perks sends none.
Go-live Role
Members get a role while they stream on Twitch or Kick, so your streamers stand out, and Kovu can post a line when they go live.
New
- Go-live Role: members who linked Twitch or Kick get the role you pick while they stream. Kovu checks every 2 minutes and takes it off after a grace period, 10 minutes unless you pick another, so a dropped stream doesn’t flap the role.
- Optionally, Kovu posts one line in a channel when a member goes live, with the stream title, the game and a Watch button. It never pings, and it can delete the line when the stream ends.
- Limit it to members with a role, such as your streamers. Kovu only takes off live roles it gave, and turning the module off takes them all off.
Improved
- Accounts members link at kovu.gg/me/linked-accounts now count for Go-live Role too: one link works for both supporter roles and the live role.
How to use it
Give your streamers a live role
Where: Dashboard, Go-live Role
- Create a live role in Discord, below Kovu’s role, and turn on Display role members separately.
- Turn on Go-live Role and pick that role as the live role.
- Optionally pick a role under Only members with, so only your streamers get it.
- Pick an announcement channel if you want a line when someone goes live, and save.
- Ask your streamers to link Twitch or Kick at kovu.gg/me/linked-accounts.
Tip: A stream back within the grace period counts as the same one: no second announcement.
Events
Kovu announces the events you create in Discord, takes RSVPs, reminds members before the start and posts how many came.
New
- Events: Kovu posts a card for each event you create in Discord, with the start in everyone’s own time, the place, the cover and an RSVP button, and edits it when you change the event.
- Members who RSVP get a role for the event, created under the role you pick with no permissions, or just go on a list. Discord’s own Interested can count too.
- Up to 5 reminders before the start ping the event’s role, and members can ask for reminder DMs.
- A post when the event starts, and one when it ends with how many joined the voice or stage channel. Kovu deletes the event role afterwards, and only ever the roles it created.
- Announce every event, or only the ones you switch on under Upcoming events on the Events page.
How to use it
Announce your events and take RSVPs
Where: Dashboard, Events
- Turn on Events and pick the announcement channel.
- Pick a role to place event roles under, below Kovu’s role, or choose List if you don’t want roles.
- Pick when to remind members, and turn on Offer reminder DMs if you like, then save.
- Create an event in Discord: Kovu posts its card with the RSVP button.
Tip: Kovu never creates or edits your Discord events, so it doesn’t need the Manage Events permission.
Linked Roles
Your roles can ask for a Kovu level, XP, rep or achievements under Discord’s own Links, and members who qualify claim them themselves.
New
- Linked Roles: members link Kovu on kovu.gg and pick the server whose numbers to show. In Server Settings → Roles, a role’s Links can then require a Kovu level, XP, rep or achievements, and members who qualify claim it themselves.
- Kovu updates a member’s numbers about a minute after a level-up, rep or a new achievement, and once a day. Rep and achievements count only while Reputation and Achievements are on.
- The Levels page has a Linked Roles section with the member link to share and how many members publish your server’s numbers, never who. Turn off Let members publish their numbers from this server there, and Kovu clears the numbers members published from it.
- Members see their connection at kovu.gg/me/linked-accounts: the server they publish from, the last update, Change server and Unlink. Unlink and Delete my data clear the numbers in Discord too.
How to use it
Give a role for a Kovu level
Where: Dashboard, Levels, Settings, Linked Roles
- Turn on Levels, then copy the member link under Linked Roles and share it with your members.
- In Discord, open Server Settings → Roles, pick a role and open its Links tab.
- Press Add requirement, choose Kovu and pick a field, like Level ≥ 10.
- Members who linked Kovu claim the role from the server menu, under Linked Roles.
Tip: Discord keeps one set of numbers per member, so a member may be showing another server’s numbers. Their Kovu connection names the server they come from.
Link Kovu as a member
Where: kovu.gg/linked-roles
- Open your server’s member link, or kovu.gg/linked-roles, and sign in.
- Pick the server whose numbers Discord should show.
- Press Connect with Discord and approve Kovu.
Tip: Switch servers or unlink at any time at kovu.gg/me/linked-accounts.
Server Networks
Servers you trust share bans, case lookups and roles, with a trail of who banned whom, where and why.
New
- Server Networks: put up to 25 servers in one network from kovu.gg/dashboard/networks. Only a server’s owner or an Administrator can add it, and each server picks what it sends, receives and shares.
- Ban sync: a permanent ban by a moderator in a server that sends bans is applied in every server that receives them, with its own case and an audit reason naming the server it came from. Unbanning there lifts only the bans the network made.
- Tempbans, automatic bans and bans made in Discord’s own menus stay in their server, and a member your staff unban by hand is never banned there again for that network ban.
- Shared cases: when two servers both share cases, their moderators can look up a member’s cases in the other server, without notes, evidence or moderator names.
- More than 10 network bans from one server in 10 minutes pause its ban sync, and every server in the network sees it under Needs you until that server’s owner, an Administrator there or the network owner resumes it or discards the held bans.
- Role sync: members who hold one of up to 20 role names in the hub get the role of the same name in every server that accepts it, created with no permissions if it’s missing, and lose it when the hub takes it off. Kovu never gives a role with admin or moderation permissions, only takes off the roles it gave, and takes those off when a server leaves the network.
How to use it
Start a network
Where: kovu.gg, Dashboard, Networks
- Open Networks, press Create network, name it and pick the first server, where you’re the owner or an Administrator.
- Add your other servers directly, or invite a server by its id and send the code to its owner.
- In each server, open Server Networks and turn on Send bans, Receive bans or Share cases.
- Ban someone with /ban in a server that sends bans: they’re banned in every server that receives them within a minute.
Tip: Turn on Receive bans only where you trust the other servers’ moderators as much as your own.
Follow a network ban
Where: Dashboard, Server Networks, Network bans
- Open the Network bans tab and filter by a member’s id.
- Each ban shows the server it came from, the moderator, the reason and what happened in every server.
- To end it, unban the member in the server that banned them: the network lifts its own bans everywhere else.
Tip: Leaving a network keeps the bans it made in your server: they’re your own bans now.
Sync roles from the hub
Where: Dashboard, Server Networks, Roles
- As the network’s owner, add the role names to sync under Synced roles (or on the network’s page).
- In each other server, open Roles, accept the names it should take, and turn on Create missing roles or pick an anchor role.
- Give a member one of those roles in the hub: they get it in every server that accepts it within a minute, and lose it there when the hub takes it off.
- Open the Network view tab to check that Kovu has Manage Roles in every server.
Tip: Pick an anchor role below your staff roles: members with a synced role outrank every role below the anchor.
Automations
When something happens in your server, Kovu checks your conditions, then gives roles, sends messages, posts to your own webhook and more.
New
- Automations: a rule is one trigger, up to 5 conditions and up to 5 actions, run in order. A server can have 25 rules, and rules that come in with a server template or settings export arrive turned off.
- Rules start when a member joins or leaves, gets or loses a role, levels up, reaches a rep total, unlocks an achievement, boosts, goes live, RSVPs to an event, posts in a channel or uses a custom command, or on a schedule. Conditions check roles, channel, account age, level, time and the message’s text.
- Actions: give or take a role, send a message, DM the member (members can turn these off with /utility notifications), react, open a thread, time the member out (rules made on the dashboard only), post to one of your webhooks, wait up to 7 days, or stop when a condition holds.
- Build a rule on the Automations page, which reads it back as one sentence, or ask Claude, ChatGPT or another AI app connected to Kovu to write it, after a preview. The run log keeps every run for 30 days.
- Webhooks: up to 3 per server, at public https URLs. Kovu posts what happened as JSON, signed with a secret it shows you once, retries failed deliveries for about 7 hours and turns a webhook off after 10 failures in a row.
- Kovu never gives or takes a role with admin or moderation permissions and never pings everyone. Each rule runs at most 3 times per member an hour unless you change it, and after 10 failed runs in a row it pauses and shows under Needs you.
How to use it
Build a rule
Where: Dashboard, Automations
- Turn on Automations, then press Create automation.
- Name it and pick what starts it.
- Add conditions, if it needs any.
- Add the actions in the order they should run.
- Read the sentence under the builder, then save.
Tip: A rule that is on starts running as soon as it’s saved. Every run shows in the Run log tab.
Send to your own webhook
Where: Dashboard, Automations, Webhooks
- Press Add webhook, then name it and paste your https URL.
- Copy the signing secret: Kovu shows it only once.
- Check deliveries in your service with the snippet under How to verify.
- Press Send test and watch it arrive under Recent deliveries.
- Add a “Post to a webhook” action to a rule.
Tip: Lost the secret? Rotate it: the old one stops working at once.
Ask your AI assistant for a rule
Where: Your AI app, connected to Kovu
- Turn on Automations in the dashboard.
- Connect your AI app to Kovu, if you haven’t yet.
- Describe the rule: “when someone gets Verified, give them Member and DM them a welcome”.
- Read the sentence it shows you, then tell it to apply the rule.
Tip: A rule starts running as soon as it’s applied, unless you ask for it turned off.
Server folders
The dashboard’s server rail is now yours to arrange, like Discord’s: drag servers into the order you want and drop one onto another to make a folder, with a name and a color.
New
- Drag a server on the rail to move it. Your order replaces Kovu’s automatic one (servers that need you first), and a server that needs you still shows its dot.
- Drop a server onto another to make a folder of the two, like in Discord. Drop more onto the folder to add them, and drag one out to take it back out. Click a folder to open or close it.
- Give a folder a name and a color: one of twelve, or any color you pick. A closed folder shows up to four of its servers’ icons.
- Every server and folder has a menu (the … button, a right click, or Shift+F10) to move it, put it in a folder or take it out, rename or recolor a folder, or delete it. Alt+Shift+↑ and ↓ move the one you are on.
Improved
- Your order and folders follow you to every device and show on the Your servers page too. Alt+1 to 9 still open the first nine servers from the top, including the ones in closed folders.
How to use it
Make a folder of servers
Where: Dashboard, the server rail
- Open the dashboard. Your servers are the icons in the rail on the left.
- Drag a server up or down to move it.
- Drag a server onto another and hold it there until it lights up, then let go: the two are now in a folder.
- Open the folder’s … menu and choose Rename folder to give it a name and a color.
Tip: To start over, choose Reset server order… in a server’s menu or on the Your servers page.