Community setup
Welcome members, guide them through the server and keep access consistent from the moment they join.
Features
Discord bot tools built around how your community is actually managed.
Sidelight supports managed artist, fan and partner-led Discord communities with practical bot features for staff teams, campaigns, onboarding, moderation, participation and server-specific workflows.
Giveaways
A cleaner way to run giveaways.
Giveaways are a clear example of Sidelight handling both sides of a community workflow. Staff create and manage the giveaway in a private command channel, while fans only see the public entry post, live giveaway state and winner announcement.
- Staff setup in a private command channel
- Public entry post in the selected fan channel
- Entry counts, role limits, inspections and reroll controls
- Automatic winner announcement when the giveaway ends
Fan games
Turn fandom into repeatable community moments.
Artist and fan communities often need more than general chat. Sidelight can support recurring activity such as lyric quizzes, daily music rounds, lightweight games, leaderboards and community prompts shaped around the server.
- Daily lyric quiz prompts with selectable answers
- Manual or scheduled music submission rounds
- Reaction scoring, winners and leaderboard posts
- Stats, streaks and repeatable fan activity
Music submissions
Run structured fan submissions without losing track.
For servers built around music, Sidelight can turn daily or weekly submissions into a managed format. Staff can open a round, collect one entry per member, score entries by reactions and post the final result back into the community.
- Manual or scheduled submission rounds
- One entry per member, controlled by the bot
- Reaction-based scoring and automatic result posts
- Leaderboards for recurring community activity
Staff workflows
Keep support, moderation and announcements visible to the team.
Sidelight can help staff reduce repetitive manual work by bringing common actions into controlled channels, including member DMs, moderation actions, scheduled posts, sticky messages and operational checks.
- Forward member DMs into staff channels
- Send staff replies through the bot
- Schedule campaign posts and reminders
- Keep important information visible with sticky messages
Wider feature set
One bot framework, multiple server workflows.
Sidelight can support onboarding, staff operations, announcements, participation tools and custom fan formats from one configurable setup.
Staff operations
Give staff practical tools for moderation, member DMs, runtime checks and feature visibility.
- Timeouts, kicks and bans
- DM forwarding and staff replies
- Bot uptime and config status
Messages and announcements
Prepare, send and manage server updates without relying on manual posting every time.
- Plain bot messages
- Structured embed messages
- Scheduled and sticky posts
Participation
Keep the community active with lightweight tools that reward joining in.
- Giveaways and rerolls
- XP, levels and role rewards
- Member stats and music links
Music and fan formats
Run recurring fan activity around music, games, listening parties and release cycles.
- Daily music submissions
- Finish-the-lyric rounds
- Leaderboards and streaks
Custom builds
All the core tools, plus features built just for your community.
Custom tools for your server Original community games Bespoke role and access flows Campaign activity features
Studio Two Digital case study
Turning tour activity into organised fan spaces.
For selected Studio Two Digital community projects, Sidelight can turn a recurring operational task into a repeatable Discord tool. This example shows how artist show activity can be supported without staff manually setting up every date one by one.
Artist communities often need separate spaces for fans attending the same show, but creating channels, server events and reminder flows for every date is repetitive when staff are managing multiple communities and campaign schedules.
Sidelight can work from structured show information to create show-specific discussion spaces and Discord events, giving each date its own clear place for fan conversation, planning and event-related updates.
Studio Two Digital community teams can support tour discussion in a more consistent way, while reducing the manual setup work needed for individual show chats, event spaces and recurring show-related reminders.
Bespoke solutions
Need something beyond the standard feature set?
If your community needs a workflow, game, campaign tool or staff process that is not covered above, send a short brief with the server context and what you want the feature to do. We’ll review whether Sidelight is the right fit and suggest the clearest next step.
Best suited to managed artist, fan and partner-led Discord communities.