Discord itself is an amazing client to chat and talk to friends, and people who you barely know. But there are tricks and tips to make yourself a “God” among the chatters. This blog post should give you a more or less guidance on how you can advanced in the way you can use Discords chatting feature.
Discord uses a neat and feature rich markdown syntax to allow you to make your text stand out. They themself have even have an extended guide on how to use this markdown here.
Discord system on how to tell apart channels, members, guilds and more if by giving everything an ID. These IDs can come handy when you know how to use them and there are multiple ways to use them!
Before I can get into detail on how to use the IDs, you need to know the difference between them. There are the following types of IDs:
Almost every type of ID needs to be used differently. To get an ID, rightclick the affected type.
A user ID is handy to differentiate between Users. Everyone has one and no matter the Username or like we had before, the Tag, a User ID, was unique to every account. And like if you go around taggin people by using the ’@’ symbol, you can do the same by using the ID. The way you do that, is by using the following syntax:
<@ID HERE>
This allows you to mention someone even if they don’t have access to the channel or even server! But if you don’t share a server with the person, you will get an empty profile that only includes the users name and profile image.
Text Channel IDs are most likely the most known way to mention a Channel. Of course you can copy the link but in old versions the link would’ve been displayed in full, meaning the entire URL. Text Channel IDs on the other hand only show the Channel name and acts the same way as the link. This is not really needed anymore, but is still interesting if you do Bot Development or use webhooks. The syntax for using Text Channel IDs is:
<#ID HERE>
Like text channel IDs you can now use the link without displaying the ultra long URL. But for development or webhooks using the IDs is way cleaner and easier to use. Here the sytax is the following:
<#ID HERE>
Guild IDs are special. You can use them to mention everyone without mentioning the role by using the ’@’ symbol. The way to do that is using the following syntax:
<@&ID HERE>
The last but best thing about using IDs is mentioning roles without having access to mention them! This won’t ping anyone if you aren’t allowed to, but it shows the role nicely. The syntax for that is:
<@&ID HERE>
<@ID HERE><#ID HERE><#ID HERE><@&ID HERE><@&ID HERE>This might not be everything you can do but don’t know, but this is for now the end of this blog. I will update it as regulary as I can so keep an eye out for the Update tag beneith the title.
Until then!