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Seven honest ways to grow a Discord server
Grow your Discord server with practical onboarding, moderation and event ideas. Improve community activity and retention before spending more on promotion.
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Add your serverAdd your serverHangout servers are about spending time together rather than doing one particular thing. A typical evening might involve a few people in voice talking while gaming, someone streaming a movie for a watch-along, others playing a quick party game, and the text channels filled with memes and updates. These servers are less structured than event-driven communities, but the best ones feel like a living room where friends drop in and out.
To judge a hangout server, check the voice channels at the times you are usually free: a hangout with empty voice channels is not much of a hangout. Look for a mix of activities, from screen-share movie nights to casual games to music listening sessions, and for members who invite newcomers into voice instead of staying in closed cliques. Clear rules about voice behaviour (no earrape, no mic spam, respect for people who are just listening) make a big difference. Some hangout servers are region-based, which helps if you want people awake in your time zone.
Before a hangout server appears on DiscoListing, a reviewer joins and verifies that people actually hang out there. We confirm the server has rules and active moderation, and we reject servers using "hangout" as a cover for advertising farms or for funnelling members into paid services. Reviewers also look out for spaces that pressure members into sharing personal information or images, which are rejected.
If voice chat makes you nervous, start by listening with your microphone muted and typing in the voice channel's text chat. Most hangout servers are used to quiet members and will welcome you when you feel ready to talk.
Related tags include Voice Chat, Chill, Friends and Social for communities with a similar casual atmosphere.
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Grow your Discord server with practical onboarding, moderation and event ideas. Improve community activity and retention before spending more on promotion.
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