Discord Sticky Message Bot: Keep a Notice at the Bottom of a Channel

The problem with pins

Discord has pinned messages, but nobody opens the pin list. A new member lands in a channel, sees the last twenty messages and posts the question the rules already answer. A sticky message solves that by always sitting under the latest chat, exactly where the eye is.

Typical uses are a short rule reminder in #general, "read the FAQ before opening a ticket" in a support channel, a format guide in #suggestions or a "no selling here" line in a trade channel.

How the repost works

The bot watches the channel. When nobody has posted for the delay you set, it deletes its previous sticky and posts a fresh one at the bottom. The delay is 10 to 3,600 seconds and defaults to 300, which is five minutes.

It does not repost after every message. That is the design choice that makes stickies tolerable: in a fast channel the message stays a little up the scroll until a lull, then jumps back down. In a slow channel it returns almost at once.

Create one

Run /sticky set with the text. The text can be up to 1,800 characters. Optional fields let you shape it:

• channel: where the sticky lives, if not the current channel.
• title: a heading for the embed.
• delay: the quiet period in seconds.
• color: a hex colour for the embed.
• image: an https link to a picture.

The dashboard has the same fields with a preview, under Automation, then Sticky Messages. The embed colour picker helps if you want a hex value that matches your server.

Pause, list and remove

• /sticky pause keeps the message on record but stops reposting. Handy during an event when the notice would be noise.
• /sticky list shows every sticky in the server.
• /sticky remove deletes the sticky and stops it.

Rules worth knowing

Writing a sticky people read

Keep it to two or three lines. A sticky that takes up half the screen makes the channel worse, and people learn to skip it. Say the single most useful thing, and link out for the rest. If your longer rules live in a channel or an embed, the sticky only needs to point there.

Pick a delay that matches the channel. Five minutes suits a chat that moves in bursts. In a support channel where every second reply matters, a longer delay keeps the note out of the way.

Where stickies earn their place

Look at where members ask the same question over and over. Those channels are your candidates. A sticky in a support channel that says which details to include saves a round of back and forth. One in a showcase channel that explains the format keeps posts consistent. One in a trading channel that states the rules prevents most of the arguments before they start. Start with one or two channels and see if the repeated questions drop before you add more.

Sticky messages or schedules?

They solve different problems. A sticky follows the chat and moves when it needs to. A scheduled message posts on a fixed clock, every 15 minutes to 7 days, whether anyone is talking or not. For regular announcements, see the scheduled messages bot.

Mistakes to avoid

• A delay that is too short. At 10 seconds the sticky returns after nearly every pause in a lively channel and starts to feel like spam.
• Walls of text. The sticky takes the same screen space on every phone, all day. Short wins.
• Forgetting permissions. Without Manage Messages the bot cannot remove its old copy, and you will see duplicates stack up.
• Using it as the only copy of important rules. Keep the full rules in your rules channel and let the sticky point there.

When an event is on and the channel is busy for a reason, pause the sticky and switch it on again afterwards. You keep the text and do not have to type it again.

Next steps

The full guide, sticky messages in Discord, covers layout ideas, and the sticky message docs list every option. Add Noxyr to try it; stickies are free.