New
- Song requests: viewers type !sr and a song name or Spotify link in your Twitch or Kick chat, and Kovu adds it to your own Spotify queue. You need Spotify Premium and your own free Spotify app; Kovu only asks for its Client ID.
- /sr in Discord and a queue panel that shows what’s playing and what’s next. Skip, remove, open and close requests from chat or Discord, block tracks, artists and words, and set limits per viewer and for the queue.
- An optional chat reminder that tells your Twitch and Kick chat how to request songs, only while people are chatting. The help center has a step-by-step guide for streamers under Song requests.
- Import XP and levels from MEE6’s public leaderboard: preview what changes, choose how it combines with XP members already earned on Kovu, and undo it for 14 days. It’s under Levels → Leaderboard → Import from MEE6.
- Moving from Dyno or MEE6, a dashboard page linked from Modules: a checklist for each bot, and starter settings for moderation and automod, like Dyno’s defaults, that you can apply, and undo, in one click.
- /report-kovu and the “Report to Kovu” message action: report a user or a message that breaks Discord’s or Kovu’s rules to the Kovu team. It works in DMs too.
- The status page speaks Kovu’s 9 languages and remembers the one you picked on kovu.gg.
Improved
- Deleted and edited message logs show what the message said even after Kovu restarts, and in busy channels long after it was sent. Servers that log deleted or edited messages keep their recent messages for this, for up to 7 days, never from channels, roles or bots the logs ignore. The Privacy Policy has the details.
- Song lookup now uses Deezer and is /fun song (?itunes still works, like ?song): each result shows the artist, album, length and cover art, with a 30-second preview. It no longer stops at “iTunes is getting too many requests”.
- Stat channels ask Discord for much less: several updates for one server become one, and a counter you change within five minutes of the last update shows up at the next one. Kick counters say subscribers, the number Kick shares, and counts read naturally in every language.
- Kovu keeps its own copy of each server’s channels and roles and waits out Discord’s rate limits instead of failing, so the dashboard, commands, counters and setup from Claude or ChatGPT are slowed by them far less often.
Fixed
- Web verification works again: the check on the verification page always ended with “Verification isn’t available right now” or “That check wasn’t for this page”.
- Images attached to suggestions were dropped, both from /suggest and when a suggestion moved to another channel.
- After an update to Kovu, most deleted message logs said “I didn’t have this message cached” instead of showing the text.
- Appeal, ticket and form pages could show a different date or time for a moment while loading.
- During a raid or another flood of events, Kovu could handle a few of them twice or out of order.
- A permission change from the dashboard or an AI app could leave a channel half changed when Discord was slow. It now changes all at once, or not at all.
- Dashboard search finds German words and plurals, and puts the module you meant first: Auto Delete for “delete”, Action Log for “log”.
How to use it
Take song requests on stream
Where: Dashboard, Song Requests
- Open Song Requests and follow Create a Spotify app: open the Spotify developer dashboard and make a free app.
- Add the redirect address Kovu shows (Copy redirect URI), then paste your app’s Client ID.
- Choose Authorize Spotify and sign in with your Premium account.
- Connect Twitch or Kick so Kovu reads !sr in your chat.
- Play something on Spotify: Kovu can only queue songs while Spotify is playing on a device.
Tip: Viewers in Discord can request with /sr, and /songs panel posts the queue panel.
Bring your levels over from MEE6
Where: Dashboard, Levels, Leaderboard, Import from MEE6
- Make MEE6’s leaderboard public in MEE6’s leaderboard settings, if it’s private.
- Choose Read the MEE6 leaderboard.
- Pick how levels come over and how they combine with XP members already have on Kovu.
- Check the preview, then choose Import.
Tip: Undo the import is there for 14 days.