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Birthdays

Kovu extraOff by default

Celebrate members on their birthday with a message, a role for the day and a DM.

Set it up

  1. Open the dashboard and pick your server. Sign in with Discord if you haven’t.

  2. Find Birthdays in the sidebar (or press ⌘K and type its name) and turn it on.

  3. Go through the settings below. Simple mode shows the essentials; switch to Advanced for the rest.

  4. Try it in Discord: /birthday. Staff can restrict or turn off each command in Commands.

Settings

What you’ll find on the Birthdays page of the dashboard. Settings marked Advanced only show in Advanced mode.

Announcements

Announcement channel
ChannelWhere Kovu wishes members a happy birthday.
Announcement time
Text24-hour time, like 09:00.
Time zone
Time zoneFor members who didn’t save their own. Empty uses the server’s time zone.
Use each member’s time zoneAdvanced
On/offAnnounce at the time above in the time zone the member saved.
Birthday message
Message

Role and DM

Birthday role
RoleGiven on the birthday and removed again afterwards.
Keep the role forAdvanced
Duration
Send a birthday DMAdvanced
On/off
Birthday DMAdvanced
Message

RulesAdvanced

February 29 birthdays in other years
Choice
Members set their own birthday
On/offOff: only managers can add birthdays.

Commands

/birthday

Everyone

Save your birthday and see upcoming ones

/birthday set <date> [timezone] [show_age] [user]/birthday remove [user]/birthday show [user]/birthday upcoming?birthday set <date> [timezone] | remove [user] | show [user] | upcoming
Options
set date
Like March 14, 14 March or 1995-03-14 (the year stays private)
set timezone (optional)
Your time zone, like Europe/Berlin (default: the server’s)
set show_age (optional)
Mention your new age in the birthday message (needs the year)
set user (optional)
Managers: whose birthday to set
remove user (optional)
Managers: whose birthday
show user (optional)
Whose birthday (default: yours)

Also: ?bday, ?birthdays

Ready to try Birthdays?

Open the dashboard

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