Stay up to date with the latest features, fixes, and improvements to our Discord bots!
Release Date: August 28, 2025
🚀 Major System Overhaul:
Complete redesign of the reaction role system with streamlined commands and improved user experience.
✨ New Command Structure:
Setup Commands:
• /createreactionmessage - Create messages specifically for reaction roles (renamed from /sendmessage)
• /selectmessage - Select a message for reaction role configuration (renamed from /messageset)
Role Management:
• /addreaction - Add reaction roles with integrated whitelist support
Basic: /addreaction 🎮 @Gamer
With whitelist: /addreaction 🎮 @Gamer @VIP
• /removereaction - Remove specific reaction roles
• /listreactionroles - View all configured roles for selected message
• /clearallreactions - Remove all reaction roles from message
• /validatereactions - Health check and troubleshooting
• /reactionrolehelp - Complete command guide
🎯 Key Improvements:
Simplified Workflow: 25% fewer commands needed for setup - Integrated whitelist (no separate command required) - Clearer command names that describe their purpose - Guild-based memory (bot remembers selected message per server)
Enhanced User Experience: One-step whitelist setup instead of two separate commands - Better error messages with helpful suggestions - Improved help documentation with clear examples - Visual feedback showing whitelist status
🔧 Technical Enhancements:
Backward compatibility (existing reaction roles continue working) - Database optimization with separate reaction role database - Multi-server support - Enhanced validation with better error detection - Performance improvements with faster command execution
🌟 Live Status:
✅ Deployed across all 13+ servers - ✅ Preserves existing 64 reaction role configurations - ✅ Ready for immediate use with no downtime required
🎉 The new streamlined system reduces setup complexity by 25% while adding powerful new features like integrated whitelist support!
Release Date: August 26, 2025
🗑️ Removed:
• The /clear command has been completely removed from the bot
• Role logging system - No more channel logging for reaction role changes
• /setlogchannel command references - Cleaned from help text and setup menus
🎯 Bot Focus Shift: As part of our bot ecosystem evolution, Meow Bot will focus on fun, community features while Meow Manager will handle administrative and moderation tasks
🛠️ Administrative Features: For message clearing and other moderation needs, please use Meow Manager
🐱 This change helps create a clearer distinction between our fun community bot (Meow Bot) and our administrative bot (Meow Manager)!
Release Date: August 25, 2025
🧹 Cleaner Commands: Simplified from 39 → 30 commands for easier use with better organization and grouped commands - same features, cleaner interface
🎭 Reaction Roles Easier to Use: All reaction role commands merged into single /reactionrole command with simpler setup and step-by-step subcommands - all existing reaction roles still work perfectly
🛡️ Better Security: Fixed bug where role restrictions weren't working properly - whitelisted roles now work correctly
🏆 Global Leaderboard Privacy Update: New servers have global leaderboard turned OFF by default (existing servers keep current settings) - use /admin toggle global_leaderboard to opt-in
🛠️ Other Improvements: Streamlined admin commands with /streamer handling all streamer management, updated help system, better error messages and faster response times
🐱 All your data is safe - nothing was lost in the update. Some commands have new names but do the same things. Reaction roles work better now, especially role restrictions!
Release Date: August 15, 2025
📸 Photo Support in /sendmessage: Added image attachment support to the /sendmessage command - Bot can now send messages with photos, text, or both combined
💌 Welcome Message Control: Welcome messages now disabled by default for new servers - Servers can manually enable if desired, providing better control over bot behavior
🎯 Perfect for Reaction Roles: Create visually appealing reaction role messages with images
⚙️ Existing Server Settings: Current servers maintain their welcome message preferences unchanged
Release Date: August 12, 2025
✅ Meow Counter Fix: Meow counting now works 100% of the time - no more silent failures
🛠️ Database Improvements: Fixed database errors that caused bot to ignore meow messages
⚡ Performance Boost: Better performance during busy chat periods and meow spam
📊 Accurate Leaderboards: All meows now properly counted and saved
🚀 Technical Upgrades: Database stability improvements, better error handling and retry logic, optimized for multi-server performance
🎉 Your meows are now safe! Before this update, the bot would randomly ignore meows, especially during busy chat periods. Now every single meow gets counted and responded to reliably!
Release Date: August 11, 2025
🎲 Quote System Update: Reroll function for /random quote feature
⏰ Reminder System Update: Simplified - Cleaner reminder embeds with better formatting
🤐 Confession Threads: Simplified - Streamlined confession thread embeds
Release Date: August 10, 2025
🌐 Translation System: Added /translate command with auto language detection supporting 100+ languages
🎨 UI Improvements: Simplified embeds with cleaner, more compact design for conversions and translations
📝 Quote System Updates: Removed quote requester mentions for cleaner notifications
📊 Poll System Enhancements: Added optional image support and auto-moderation to remove invalid emoji reactions
👋 Welcome System Improvements: Bot filtering prevents welcome spam when other bots join
Release Date: August 9, 2025
🔧 Quote Mention Fix: Fixed quotes so users don't get @mentioned twice when using a dedicated quotes channel
📊 Poll Images: Added single image support to polls - now you can add a visual to help explain your poll!
✨ Quality of Life: Better user experience with quote notifications
Release Date: August 8, 2025
🌌 New Backgrounds: Pick between Galaxy, Dark Sky, Cats, or classic Black
😎 Emoji handling: Custom + Unicode emojis render cleaner and in-line
📦 Quote channel support: Post straight to a dedicated quotes channel, with dual-post option
📢 Mentions now readable: <@12345> becomes @Username
✂️ Smart quote trimming: Overly long quotes get trimmed with smarter space-based truncation
⚠️ Still working on: Unicode rendering - massively in beta, expect weirdness with ultra-fancy names
💙 Special thanks to @RyanCAD for extensive coding and testing work, and @vrnvctss for additional testing and coding support!
Release Date: August 7, 2025
🔄 New Feature: Universal Unit Conversion System - Convert between 8 different types of stuff with natural language!
🆕 New Commands: /convert, /conversionhelp
📏 What you can convert: Distance, weight, volume, time, data storage, speed, temperature, and currency (with live rates!)
🗣️ Just type naturally: "60 mph to kmh", "5 kg to pounds", "100 USD to CAD"
💱 160+ currencies supported with real-time exchange rates that update hourly
Release Date: July 2025
🔧 Quote System Makeover: Switched from images to Discord embeds - way faster and prettier!
💡 Perfect Emoji Support: Custom server emojis now work flawlessly
🛡️ New Command: /config_meow_limits to stop meow spam
🐛 Bug Fixes: Fixed emoji and name rendering issues
⚠️ Known Issues: Quotes look simpler now, still tweaking for the best balance
Release Date: June 2025
🚀 Multi-Server Support: Bot now works across multiple Discord servers!
🌐 Global Meow Tracking: Your meows count everywhere with /globalmeowboard
⚙️ Server Independence: Each server keeps its own settings and preferences
🛠️ General Improvements: Faster response times, less lag, fewer bugs
Release Date: May 2025
🤐 Anonymous Confessions: /confess to send secret messages safely
⏰ Smart Reminders: /remind with natural language like "in 10 minutes"
🎯 Admin Stuff: /setup, /clear, /config_welcome, and activity logging
Release Date: April 2025
🎉 The Beginning: /meow, /barkcount, /meowboard, /randomquote, reaction roles, Twitch alerts
Release Date: September 1, 2025
🛡️ Enhanced Command Security:
Complete redesign of permission system to ensure only authorized users can access sensitive moderation tools and data.
🔐 Permission Requirements Added:
Moderation Commands: All moderation tools (ban, kick, mute, warn, etc.) now require proper moderation permissions
User Data Access: Commands like /userinfo, /warnings, and /infractions now require appropriate permissions to view sensitive user data
Bot Configuration: Setup and configuration commands now restricted to users with server management permissions
Role Hierarchy: Existing role hierarchy protections remain in place and enhanced
🆕 New Moderation Features:
🔒 Lockdown System: Added /lockdown command with channel and server-wide lockdown capabilities - perfect for handling raids or emergencies! Lock/unlock individual channels or your entire server with a single command
🧹 Enhanced Message Management: The /clear command now supports user-specific message purging - clean up spam from specific troublemakers effortlessly!
✅ Commands Still Available to Everyone:
• /help - Get help with commands and bot information
• /info - Basic bot information and statistics
• /rank - Check your own activity level and XP
• /leaderboard - View server activity rankings and competition
🔧 What Changed:
Enhanced security without affecting core functionality - Public commands remain accessible to maintain community engagement - Administrative features properly protected from unauthorized access - Cleaner permission structure for better server management
Release Date: August 28, 2025
🚀 Global Deployment Ready:
Fixed Discord rate limiting issues that were preventing deployment to large servers - Individual logging messages preserved (every voice join/leave still gets its own message) - Smart rate limiting with 1-2 second delays prevents API errors while maintaining real-time feel
🔊 Voice Activity Improvements:
No more 429 errors in busy voice channels - Individual messages maintained (just like Carl-bot style logging) - Automatic queue system handles high-traffic servers seamlessly
⚡ Performance Enhancements:
Scales to 100+ servers without issues - Bulletproof reliability with automatic error recovery - Memory optimized queue management
What Stayed the Same:
✅ All commands work exactly as before - ✅ All logging features unchanged - ✅ Activity/XP system untouched - ✅ Same embeds and message format
🌍 Manager Meow can now be deployed globally across large Discord communities without rate limiting issues!
Release Date: August 28, 2025
🆕 New Features:
😀 Emoji Event Tracking: Now logs when server emojis are added or removed - Shows emoji name, ID, and whether it's animated to help track custom emoji changes in your server
🙈 Ignore Lists System: Add channels or users to ignore lists to reduce log spam - Perfect for filtering out bot channels or noisy users - Use /ignore command to manage what gets logged and keep your log channels clean and relevant
🛠️ Improvements:
🖼️ Avatar Change Logging Enhanced: Added username display alongside mentions for better mobile compatibility - Now shows both the mention and readable username - Fixes issues where mentions appear as numbers on some devices
📊 Message Purge Logging: Better tracking of bulk message deletions via /clear command - Shows count of deleted messages and target user if specified
🔧 Behind the Scenes:
🛡️ Enhanced Error Handling: Added comprehensive error protection to all logging events - Better console error messages for debugging - Improved stability and crash prevention
🔇 Reduced Console Noise: Silenced Discord gateway spam messages - Cleaner console output for server administrators
🐾 Manager Meow now tracks even more server activity while giving you better control over what gets logged!
Release Date: August 26, 2025
🖼️ Avatar Logging Enhanced: Fixed avatar change detection not working properly, added username display to avatar logs for better visibility on mobile devices, simplified avatar change embeds (removed duplicate images and unnecessary fields)
🧹 System Cleanup: Reduced Discord gateway spam in console logs, added comprehensive error handling to prevent crashes, improved logging stability across all event handlers, fixed audit log permission errors with better error messages
📊 Logging Improvements: Simplified verbose embeds across all logging events, channel creation logs now show clean format with ID and Category only, voice/role/moderation logs condensed for better readability, removed redundant fields from logging embeds
🌍 Multi-Server Ready: Confirmed full server isolation and privacy protection, optimized for global deployment across 100+ servers, zero cross-server data contamination, no direct user messaging - all communications stay in server channels
🐾 Manager Meow continues to provide reliable, cute moderation with enhanced stability and cleaner logging!
August 16, 2025
/rank - Check current level, XP, and server ranking/top - Interactive leaderboard with time period filters/leaderboard - Classic top users display (1-25 users)/activitylog - Detailed personal activity breakdown/xp_guide - Complete XP system explanation/activity_enable - Toggle the entire system on/off/activity_config - Customize XP rates and settings/set_level_role - Assign roles to specific levels/remove_level_role - Remove role rewards/level_roles - View all current role rewards/setup_cat_roles - Auto-create 30 themed rolesIntroducing our beautiful 30-role cat theme progression:
Ready to boost your server engagement? Manager Meow Activity System is here! 🐱✨