Connecting Discord

Connecting Discord, showing your Discord on your page, showing your server tag, showing your live status and showing your server are five decisions, not one. Each is its own switch.

1. 1Go to Settings → Account → Sign-in methods, or to Discord card under Dashboard → Widgets
2. 2Press Connect, or Connect Discord on the card, and complete the Discord sign-in
3. 3You come back to the dashboard and your handle and picture are copied across automatically

This attaches Discord to the account you are already signed in to. It also means you can sign in with Discord from then on.

Your Discord picture, your badges and any server icon are loaded from Discord's own servers when someone opens your page. Press Refresh on the Discord card under Dashboard → Widgets after you change your Discord handle or avatar to pull the new one across.

Turn on the switch in the header of Discord card, under Dashboard → Widgets, and press Save. That adds a card with your Discord handle and picture. The switch stays disabled until Discord is connected: there is nothing to show before that.

If your Discord account has badges (HypeSquad, Early Supporter, Active Developer, Partner and so on) they appear next to your handle on the card. Nothing to switch on: they come with the account, and they are read from Discord when someone opens your page. Nitro, Server Booster and Quest badges do not appear: Discord keeps them out of the public account details Noiz reads.

A badge we do not have an icon for is left out rather than drawn wrong, so it is possible to have a badge on Discord that does not appear here.

Show my server tag, in Discord card under Dashboard → Widgets, puts the tag you wear on Discord beside your handle, with its small badge. It is off until you turn it on and press Save. Like your badges, it is read from Discord when someone opens your page, and its badge is loaded from Discord's own servers.

Your card can show a status dot (Online, Idle, Do Not Disturb or Offline) and what you are playing, streaming or listening to. It is off until you turn on Show my live status, in Discord card under Dashboard → Widgets, and press Save.

It needs one more thing: you have to be a member of the Noiz Discord server. Discord does not offer another account's status to a website. It sends it only to a bot that shares a server with you, and ours is in that one. The note under the switch shows the invite and tells you when it is working.

A page someone already has open keeps up on its own: it asks our server for your newest status every 30 seconds while it is on their screen, and the time you have been playing keeps counting.

• Show what I am doing adds the game, the stream, the song or your custom status. Turn it off to show the dot only
• Show when I was last online adds a line such as Last seen 3h ago while you are offline. It is off unless you turn it on, and it counts from the moment our bot saw you go offline, so it starts on the day you switch it on
• Invisible in Discord shows as offline here too
• A change reaches your page within about a minute
• A game's picture is loaded from Discord's own servers, like your avatar. Music shows the title and the artist, without a cover

We keep your latest status only, not a history, and only while the switch is on. Turn it off, hide the card or disconnect Discord and it is deleted. Leave the server and your page stops showing it. If our bot is not running, your page shows no status rather than an old one.

A second card can show a Discord server with a Join button.

1. 1Go to Discord server under Dashboard → Widgets
2. 2Paste an invite into Invite link: discord.gg/yourserver, or just the code after the slash
3. 3Press Check & save
4. 4Turn on the switch in the card's header, Show my Discord server, and press Save

Checking the invite confirms it works and reads the server's name, icon and approximate member counts. We keep the address of the icon, not a copy of it: like your avatar, it is loaded from Discord when someone opens your page. The card shows online and total members when Discord tells us, and nothing when it does not: 0 Members would read as a measurement rather than as an admission.

Checking an invite saves the server at once and does not publish it. The switch is the only thing that puts the card on your page, so you can verify a link without showing it to anyone. Clearing the field and pressing Remove server, or Remove beside it, removes the server.

Once either card is on, Discord card look, under Dashboard → Widgets, sets how it is drawn. With card widgets on your card too it is called Card box look, and they share it:

• Discord mark: Both, Icon, Text or Off, for the Discord logo and word on the card
• Show my Discord picture: your Discord picture on the card, or leave it off
• Card fill: Default matches the rest of your card, None lets your background show through, Color is your own Card color, darkened enough to stay readable
• Custom text and border colors: switch it on for separate Text, Mark and Border colors

Like everything under Profile, these wait for Save.

Settings → Account → Sign-in methods → Disconnect, then confirm. Your handle and picture come off your page, the Discord switches go back off, and Discord stops being a way to sign in. Your links, your server invite and everything else stay.