How a Disboard bump works, who runs it and what the guidelines forbid
A Disboard bump is a /bump command that moves a listed Discord server back to the top of its tag listings on Disboard for a short window. Disboard is a website that lists Discord servers by tag, and its guidelines do not allow bots or scripts to bump automatically. Its terms provide for suspension or termination of membership when a user commits a prohibited act.
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Seeing a Discord server list in the app: one icon per server
The Discord server list is the column on the very left-hand side of the Discord app. Discord's support page on joining a server calls it by that name and describes what fills it: each addition is shown as a small circular icon, and the icons stack vertically.
That column holds the servers a member has already added. Finding more to add is a separate question, and websites that catalogue servers are one answer to it; Disboard is one of those websites.
The two meanings share a name and little else. A member's own list is a view of memberships; a website's list is a directory grouped by tags and, according to a third-party guide, reordered by bumps.
What makes a bump work: the command, the bot and the interval
A bump works through a chat command and a bot. According to a third-party guide, with the Disboard bot installed and the community already on Disboard, a member types /bump in any channel where the bot has access to read and respond. The effect is that the community moves back to the top of its tag listings on Disboard for a short window.
Two limits set the pace. The same guide says Disboard lets a server be bumped once every two hours, and a comment in the DISBOARD subreddit adds a personal cooldown: a user who has bumped one server waits 30 minutes before bumping another. The comment is a user's report and carries no official standing.
The guide adds that a bump is open to any member with permission to send messages in the bot's channel, so running /bump does not require the owner.
Disboard shows publicly, on a server's listing page, when that server was last bumped, in a line such as bumped 1 hour ago.
What a Discord server list is: a website for finding and advertising servers
A Discord server list in the web sense is a website. Discadia defines it as a site that provides a way to find the Discord servers a person is looking for, and describes it as a place to advertise a server and to browse servers promoted by relevance, quality, member count and more.
Disboard fits that description through its tag listings: entries sit under tags, and a bump moves an entry back to the top of its tag listings for a short window, according to a third-party guide. The list is therefore ordered, and order is the thing a bump changes.
Being listed is the precondition for everything else: the bump command and the reminder feature both presuppose a server that is listed on Disboard.
Setting up a bump reminder: what one bot's documentation requires
A bump reminder is a message that tells a community when the next bump is due. The documentation of the greed bot, a third-party Discord bot, says reminders are enabled with the command ,bumpreminder enable, and that they are sent two hours after each bump, which matches the two-hour interval in the guide.
Two conditions appear in that documentation: the server must be listed on Disboard, and the bot must have permission to send messages, embed links and view channels. One option follows: a thank-you message is set with the command ,bumpreminder thankyou followed by the message text.
A reminder posts a message; it does not run /bump. Disboard's guidelines address the other case: using bots or other scripts to do actions in Disboard automatically, such as bumping a server, is not allowed. Where a particular reminder bot falls in relation to those guidelines is a matter for Disboard's own rules, and this page cannot rule on it.
Auto-bump is not allowed: what the guidelines and terms say
Disboard's guidelines name the conduct in one sentence: using bots or other scripts to automatically do actions in Disboard, such as bumping a server (auto-bump), is not allowed. The rule leaves the bump itself to a person.
The consequence sits in the terms. Disboard's terms provide for suspension or termination of membership, deletion of part or all of the data from an account, or a change to the user's publishing limit when a user commits a prohibited act. The passage does not list which acts carry which consequence, so it supports no schedule of penalties.
Detection is not described. Neither the guidelines sentence nor the terms passage says how automated bumping is noticed, who checks, or how quickly, so this page offers no account of what Disboard does or does not catch. The public trace Disboard shows on a listing is the last-bumped line, which gives a time.
What a bump gives the listed server and what it gives the member
For the listed server, a bump gives a position: back to the top of its tag listings for a short window, in the words of a third-party guide. The wording gives no length for that window and no figure for the members a bump brings, so this page gives none either.
For the member who runs the command, no reward is described in the bump instructions. The one related item is the thank-you message in the greed bot's reminder feature, whose text is set with a command.
A bump moves placement for a moment and adds no members by itself, and nothing in Disboard's guidelines or terms ties a bump to a result.
One bump on a timeline: the interval, the cooldown and the reminder
A single bump starts two separate limits. The first belongs to the server: a third-party guide says Disboard allows one bump every two hours. The second belongs to the member: a comment in the DISBOARD subreddit says each user waits 30 minutes after bumping before bumping another server, including a friend's.
The reminder follows the server's interval. The greed bot's documentation says reminders go out two hours after each bump, the same length as the interval in the guide, so the reminder arrives when the next bump becomes possible.
The table sorts each figure by who states it, which decides how much weight it carries.
- Stated by Disboard itself: the automation rule, the sanctions and the last-bumped line.
- Reported by a third-party guide: the command, the eligible members and the two-hour interval.
- Reported elsewhere: the 30-minute cooldown in a subreddit comment and the reminder timing in a bot's documentation.
| Item | What is stated | Who states it |
|---|---|---|
| Command | /bump in a channel the bot has access to | third-party guide |
| Interval | one bump every two hours | third-party guide |
| Personal cooldown | 30 minutes after bumping before bumping another server | comment in the DISBOARD subreddit |
| Who runs it | any member with message permission in the bot's channel | third-party guide |
| Automation | bots or scripts doing actions such as bumping are not allowed | Disboard's guidelines |
| Sanctions | suspension or termination of membership, data deletion, publishing limits | Disboard's terms |
| Reminder timing | two hours after each bump | greed bot's documentation |
| Public trace | a last-bumped line on the listing page | Disboard's listing page |
What to do
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List the server on Disboard first
Both the bump command and the reminder feature presuppose that the community is already on Disboard, as the third-party guide and the greed bot's documentation each state.
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Have the Disboard bot installed in the server
The guide describes /bump as typed with the Disboard bot installed, in a channel where the bot has access to read and respond. Without the bot, nothing answers the command.
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Run /bump in a channel where the bot responds
Any member with permission to send messages in the bot's channel runs the command, according to the guide, so the owner need not do it personally. The bump moves the community back to the top of its tag listings for a short window.
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Let the interval and the cooldown pass
A third-party guide says Disboard allows one bump every two hours. A comment in the DISBOARD subreddit adds a 30-minute cooldown for a user who has just bumped another server. Both figures are reports from outside Disboard's own guidelines.
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Read the last-bumped line on the listing page
Disboard shows on a community's listing page when it was last bumped, in a line such as bumped 1 hour ago. Comparing that line with the time the command was run confirms whether the bump registered.
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Turn on a bump reminder and check its permissions
With the greed bot, the documented command is ,bumpreminder enable, and the documentation names three permissions the bot needs: send messages, embed links and view channels. Reminders then go out two hours after each bump, and ,bumpreminder thankyou followed by text sets the thank-you message.
Frequently asked
What is Disboard bump?
A Disboard bump is the /bump command that moves a listed Discord server back to the top of its tag listings for a short window. That description comes from a third-party guide, and Disboard shows the time of the last bump on the listing page. A bump changes placement and adds no members by itself.
How do you bump on Disboard?
Type /bump in a channel where the Disboard bot has access to read and respond, with the bot installed and the community already on Disboard. Any member with permission to send messages in the bot's channel runs the command, according to a third-party guide. The next bump follows after the two-hour interval.
How does Disboard bumping work?
Disboard bumping works through a listing, the Disboard bot and the /bump command, with a two-hour interval per community. One user's report adds a 30-minute cooldown per member, and the last-bumped line on the listing page shows the result. Disboard's guidelines forbid doing any of it automatically with bots or scripts.
What does Disboard bump do?
A Disboard bump changes the order of a listing: the entry moves back to the top of its tag listings for a short window. The wording gives no length for that window and no figure for members gained, so what a bump does is placement and nothing more.
What is a Discord server list?
A Discord server list is the column on the very left-hand side of the Discord app that shows the servers a member has added, each as a small circular icon. On the web the same words name a site for finding and advertising servers, which is how Discadia defines it.
How to make a Disboard bump reminder?
With the greed bot, the documented command is ,bumpreminder enable, and the community must already be listed on Disboard. The bot needs permission to send messages, embed links and view channels, and reminders go out two hours after each bump. A reminder posts a message and does not run /bump.
What do Disboard's guidelines say about bumping?
Disboard's guidelines state that using bots or other scripts to automatically do actions in Disboard, such as bumping a server, is not allowed. The terms separately provide for suspension or termination of membership, deletion of account data or changed publishing limits when a user commits a prohibited act.
Cited sources
- peakbot.pro. peakbot.pro/blog/how-to-bump-discord-server-disboard.
- disboard.org. disboard.org/site/guidelines.
- disboard.org. disboard.org/site/tos.
- support.discord.com. support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034842871-How-do-I-join-a-Server.
- docs.greed.best. docs.greed.best/server-configuration/bump-reminder.
A bump changes where a listing sits for a short window; it adds no members by itself and produces no result in any contest or poll. The interval, the cooldown and the reminder timing are reports from third parties and users, and this page cannot say what Disboard allows beyond the guidelines and terms quoted, or what happens to any particular membership.
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