What's new?

A vote on top.gg now gives 7 days of Premium, the home page shows live how BitGuard stops attacks, and all stored data is encrypted.

NoOneEscape Founder of BitGuard

Beta 2.5

3New 6Improved 2Fixed

• New Vote reward: After a vote on top.gg you redeem 7 days of Premium for one server in the dashboard, again every 30 days
• New Website: new home page with a live demo that shows how BitGuard stops a hacked admin, a raid and scam links
• New Website: the home page shows communities that use BitGuard and agreed to be listed in the ranking
• Improved Dashboard: new layout for AutoMod, permissions, moderation, automations, social alerts, custom commands and scheduled messages, with an overview at the top and settings right in the row instead of a pop-up
• Improved Dashboard: social alerts, custom commands and scheduled messages show a live preview of how the message looks in Discord
• Improved AutoMod: the word filter now also catches disguised words, such as look-alike letters, numbers instead of letters, asterisks or stretched letters
• Improved Anti-raid: in raid mode the accounts that set off the alarm are now removed too, not just everyone after them
• Improved Security: all data the bot stores is now encrypted, including ticket transcripts and server backups
• Improved Website: redesigned commands, pricing, ranking and partner pages, the commands page now shows every option of each command
• Fixed Anti-raid: the alert was always in German, now it uses the server language
• Fixed Votes on top.gg did not reach the bot, so no voter role was given

Control your own voice channel with buttons right in its chat, and the dashboard sidebar has a new order.

NoOneEscape Founder of BitGuard

Beta 2.4

3New 2Improved 2Fixed

• New Temp voice controls: In every personal voice channel the bot posts a control panel with buttons for name, limit, privacy, chat, region, bitrate, trust, invite, kick, block, transfer and delete
• New Temp voice: If the owner has left the channel, another member can take it over with “Claim”
• New Dashboard: Sidebar categories can be collapsed and then only show the modules that are turned on
• Improved Dashboard: new sidebar layout with the categories Protection, Moderation and Support & Team
• Improved Temp voice: Active voice channels survive a bot restart, empty channels are cleaned up automatically
• Fixed Dashboard: The sidebar jumped back to the top after every click
• Fixed Security: After the German BSI warned about a critical PHP vulnerability (“PHP2Shell”), we updated all servers the same day

Levels and welcomes arrive as designed cards, XP now counts in voice channels too, and tickets get questions, priority and a team thread.

NoOneEscape Founder of BitGuard

Beta 2.3

12New 9Improved 2Fixed

• New Level cards as images: /level, level-up messages and the leaderboard now come as a designed card with avatar, rank and progress bar
• New Welcome card: new members are greeted with an image showing their avatar, name and your own text, with a live preview in the dashboard
• New Voice XP: members earn XP for every minute in a voice channel, optionally only when they are not alone and not muted
• New XP boosts: more XP for certain roles, for a time period or every week, for example double XP on weekends
• New Tickets: questions before the ticket, so the team has all the info right away
• New Tickets: priority from low to urgent via a dropdown in the ticket or /ticket priority
• New Tickets: close request via button or /ticket closerequest, the owner confirms it
• New Tickets: private staff thread in the ticket that the owner can't see
• New Tickets: close automatically when inactive or when the owner leaves the server
• New Ticket statistics (Premium): new tickets, response and resolution time, ratings and a team overview
• New Shop: color roles you buy once and switch freely with /use
• New Shop: roles that are removed automatically after a set time
• Improved 3 ticket panels for free instead of 1
• Improved With Premium, rank card and welcome card get your own color and background image
• Improved Dashboard: when a module is turned off, its settings are greyed out
• Improved Dashboard: modules with Premium features are marked with a gold dot in the sidebar, Premium areas have a gold border
• Improved Dashboard: role and channel pickers with search and groups instead of long checkbox lists
• Improved Dashboard: success and error messages are now green and red
• Improved Dashboard: the same color picker for embeds, rank card and welcome card
• Improved Dashboard: clearer pages for Anti-Scam and ban appeals
• Improved The bot now stores all data in a database instead of separate files
• Fixed Commands were sometimes slow because one of the bot's name servers didn't respond
• Fixed Double plus icon on "Add field" in embeds and reaction roles

For our 100th server everyone got a week of Premium, and captcha, delayed auto roles and more filter words are now free.

NoOneEscape Founder of BitGuard

Beta 2.2

4New 5Improved

• New For our 100th server: until October 23, every server gets Premium for free, no sign-up needed
• New Seasonal decorations on the website and dashboard: autumn leaves, pumpkins, snow and more sit on the cards to match the season, and you can hide them with one click
• New Supporter rank: access to new modules in beta and a supporter badge in the dashboard
• New If Premium ends on a set date, the bot reminds the server owner by DM three days before
• Improved Captcha verification is now free on every server
• Improved Delayed auto roles are now free on every server
• Improved AutoMod word filter: 250 instead of 50 words for free
• Improved Ban appeals: up to 5 questions on every server
• Improved Premium page in the dashboard: the bot personalizer now replaces captcha as a highlight

Moderation commands and reaction roles respond instantly, plus several giveaway fixes.

NoOneEscape Founder of BitGuard

Beta 2.1

2Improved 5Fixed

• Improved Moderation: /ban, /kick, /timeout, /untimeout, /unban, /warn and /clearwarns confirm right away and fill in the result afterwards, even when the DM and log entry take a moment
• Improved Reaction roles: buttons and select menus respond right away, the role follows straight after
• Fixed Moderation commands occasionally showed "The application did not respond" when the DM and log entry took longer than three seconds
• Fixed /kick, /timeout and /untimeout reported success and created a case even when Discord had rejected the action
• Fixed Giveaways: if the bot wasn't allowed to see the channel, you only got a generic error instead of a hint about the channel permissions
• Fixed Giveaways: failed attempts stayed saved as active giveaways and counted towards the limit
• Fixed Reaction roles: buttons occasionally showed "Interaction failed"

Every moderation action gets a case number, new servers are set up in four steps, and Anti-Scam is available to everyone.

NoOneEscape Founder of BitGuard

Beta 2.0

8New 10Improved 4Fixed

• New Setup wizard in the dashboard: set server type, bot language, moderator roles and channels in four steps, fitting modules are turned on automatically
• New Case system: every moderation action gets a case number, whether by command, in the dashboard, by AutoMod or the warn limit
• New /case show, reason, history and delete: view cases, change reasons later, show a member's case history
• New Case history in the dashboard under Moderation, with member search and editing right in the list
• New New commands /purge, /slowmode, /lock and /unlock
• New /userinfo shows account age, join date and roles, moderators also see the warnings
• New Permissions: new "Channels" role for /purge, /slowmode, /lock and /unlock
• New Website: new guides for anti-scam, channel rules, applications, ban appeals, temporary roles and the team list
• Improved Anti-scam is out of beta and available on every server
• Improved Applications, ban appeals, temp roles, team list, channel rules and anti-scam now also in Spanish, French and Russian
• Improved Dashboard: error messages appear in the dashboard's language
• Improved Default texts for verification, applications, ban appeals and the team list follow your server's bot language
• Improved When a reason is changed later, the original message in the log channel is kept and only updated
• Improved /help now lists every command, including /temprole, /team, /invites, /fish and /higherlower
• Improved /warnings shows the date instead of an internal number
• Improved Website: features, command list and pricing now include the modules from 1.8
• Improved Privacy policy now covers anti-scam, applications, ban appeals and temporary roles
• Improved The bot runs on a new server with a faster connection to Discord
• Fixed Moderation actions from the dashboard didn't show up in the log channel
• Fixed Occasional "Interaction failed" because addresses were resolved too slowly
• Fixed Security: social alerts can no longer be redirected to internal addresses
• Fixed Privacy policy: birthdays entered by admins were missing and the backup details were outdated

Website and dashboard now speak four languages, a status page shows whether everything is running, and automations get a new editor.

NoOneEscape Founder of BitGuard

Beta 1.9

3New 6Improved 2Fixed

• New The website and dashboard are now also available in French and Spanish, including the documentation and changelog
• New Status page: every 5 minutes the bot itself checks the dashboard, API, data storage and its Discord connection and reports the results to the status page
• New Invite tracker: the server's vanity URL has its own row in the leaderboard, with joins, leaves and active members
• Improved Automations: new editor with "When" and "Then" steps, one card per action and clickable placeholders
• Improved Custom commands: new editor with sections for the reply, embed and access, roles as clickable pills
• Improved Anti-nuke: backups are now kept for 3 days, at most 3. After an alert, the state from before is kept
• Improved Anti-nuke: the bot now cleans up old backups every hour, even when daily backups are off
• Improved Invite tracker: members who joined through the vanity URL and leave again now count under "Left again"
• Improved Dashboard: the language picker is more compact and only shows the flag for the other languages
• Fixed Invite tracker: joins through the vanity URL were detected but not counted in the dashboard, which showed 0 everywhere
• Fixed Dashboard: save and delete buttons in cards sat in the middle instead of at the edge

Five new modules for applications, ban appeals, timed roles, the team list and channel rules, plus Anti-Scam in beta.

NoOneEscape Founder of BitGuard

Beta 1.8

8New 3Improved

• New Applications: custom multi-page forms, new applications land in a review channel where you can accept or decline them
• New Ban appeals: banned members get a DM with a button and can submit an appeal with your own questions
• New Temporary roles: give roles for a limited time with /temprole, they are removed automatically when they expire
• New Team list: show your server team at a glance with /team set, remove and list
• New Channel rules: allow only media, only links or only text in a channel, or block links or media. Violations are removed automatically
• New Beta area in the dashboard: beta testers get to see new features before everyone else
• New Anti-Scam (beta): detects scam bots and NSFW invite spam in real time, including fake Nitro, Steam and crypto scams, IP loggers and spoofed links
• New New partner: Three Sisters RP
• Improved Anti-Scam automatically checks links against public lists of known scam domains
• Improved Moderation DMs for bans now include the appeal button right away when the module is active
• Improved Premium: higher limits for the new modules, for example 500 instead of 25 temporary roles and 15 instead of 2 application forms

Voice minutes count towards the ranking, spam no longer earns points, and the website has new navigation and a partner page.

NoOneEscape Founder of BitGuard

Beta 1.7

8New 11Improved 3Fixed

• New Server ranking: voice minutes now count once at least two people are in a voice channel (AFK channel and deafened members excluded)
• New Automations: multiple keywords in one trigger, separated by |
• New Automations: without a target channel, the bot replies directly to the triggering message
• New Higher or Lower: if the next card has the same value, you now get 80% of your bet back instead of losing it all
• New Free games: when you turn it on, the games that are free right now get posted, then only new ones
• New Website: new partner page featuring our partner servers, each with logo, short description and invite link
• New Website: apply to become a partner right from the partner page, via Discord or email
• New Our first partners: Angel Protocol and Simeonsky Design
• Improved Server ranking: fairer points, now also counting active days, commands used and member growth
• Improved Server ranking: spam no longer earns extra points, messages and commands per person and day only count up to a cap
• Improved The ranking in the dashboard and on the website shows voice minutes
• Improved The command count on the website now includes subcommands
• Improved Privacy policy and documentation updated for voice minutes (60 days, no content)
• Improved Website: navigation rebuilt, with pricing right in the menu
• Improved Website: new Community menu with the server ranking, partners and the support server
• Improved Website: language picker is now a dropdown with flags, and language names appear in your language
• Improved Website: cleaner header with fewer boxes and one clear invite button
• Improved Website: footer reorganized into three even columns, legal links now sit at the bottom next to the copyright
• Improved Website: on smaller laptop screens the compact menu kicks in earlier, so nothing gets cut off
• Fixed Dashboard moderation: role hierarchy and your permissions are now checked reliably
• Fixed Scheduled messages: @everyone and @here only work if you are allowed to mention everyone yourself
• Fixed Website: the mobile menu could not be scrolled on small screens, so the last entries were out of reach

Ticket panels as cards, ratings at a glance and panels that update themselves after changes.

NoOneEscape Founder of BitGuard

Beta 1.6

3New 7Improved 3Fixed

• New Tickets: the Waiting, In progress and Priority counters can be switched off individually
• New Tickets: the banner image in the panel is now optional, off by default, with your own image via link if you like
• New Documentation: new guides for the invite tracker and the counting channel
• Improved Ticket system in the dashboard completely redesigned: panels as cards, commands as tiles and a clear editor with live preview
• Improved Ticket ratings with average, distribution and latest ratings at a glance
• Improved The ticket panel follows your server's bot language, including the select menu and the ticket counters
• Improved Dashboard changes reach the posted panel within a few seconds, no need to post it again
• Improved Dashboard: better German wording such as Reaktionsrollen, Sprachkanäle and Embeds
• Improved Website: new images for AutoMod, giveaways and anti-nuke, click to view them full size
• Improved Website: FAQ and documentation brought up to date, plus a preview image for shared links
• Fixed Tickets: posted panels were never updated, the counters were stuck at 0
• Fixed Tickets: panels in deleted channels stayed stored and are now cleaned up
• Fixed Privacy: deleting all server data did not remove the ticket panels

See who invites how many members, count up together and fish for coins, plus a voter role for upvotes.

NoOneEscape Founder of BitGuard

Beta 1.5

9New 10Improved 1Fixed

• New Invite tracker: see who invited how many members, with /invites, a leaderboard and a join log
• New Counting channel: members count up together, one mistake and everyone starts over
• New Voter role: whoever votes for BitGuard on top.gg or Discord Bot List gets a role on the support server for 12 hours
• New Shop perks: items can start a server boost, for example double game winnings for everyone for an hour, optionally with its own maximum bet
• New New mini-game /fish: cast your line, reel in at the right moment and earn coins, from an old boot to a legendary shark
• New Gambling ban: whoever gambles too hard gets banned from the casino. Set it by losses in a row or coins lost
• New Faster support: when you ask for help, our team sees at a glance which permissions the bot is missing on your server, which modules are running and which errors occurred, without any message content
• New Temporary bans: anyone abusing the bot can now be banned for 1, 7 or 30 days instead of only permanently
• New Website: vote button at the bottom right to support BitGuard on top.gg and Discord Bot List
• Improved /shop redesigned and much easier to read
• Improved Boosts & events: boosts can have their own maximum bet while they run
• Improved Dashboard: notifications in the new BitGuard look at the top right
• Improved Dashboard: Premium limits are shown as a compact capsule
• Improved Dashboard: moderation with calmer, consistent colors
• Improved The command list is now also on Discord Bot List
• Improved Support team with fixed roles (Support, Moderation, Technical). Each role can only do what it needs, and every action is logged
• Improved The bot keeps errors for 14 days with the command and server, so we can find and fix them faster
• Improved If a module is causing errors, our team can briefly switch it off on your server. Your settings are kept and you can switch it back on in the dashboard
• Improved Privacy policy now covers the invite tracker, counting channel and upvotes
• Fixed Economy: "Boost active" now only shows on commands the boost actually applies to

The dashboard follows the language of your Discord account, plus the /higherlower mini game and a new Premium page.

NoOneEscape Founder of BitGuard

Beta 1.4

4New 6Improved 3Fixed

• New Dashboard: now in English and German. The language follows your Discord account and can be switched at the top right
• New Permissions: new "Economy admin" role that can adjust balances with /coins give, take and set
• New New mini-game /higherlower: guess whether the next card is higher or lower and cash out whenever you like
• New Terms of Service in English and German
• Improved Premium page rebuilt in the dashboard and on the website, with highlights, a comparison and FAQ
• Improved Premium is currently in a trial phase and is granted for free to partners
• Improved Embeds and reaction roles: templates appear in your language
• Improved Dates and numbers in the dashboard now follow your language
• Improved Website: new Home button in the navigation
• Improved Privacy policy now mentions the language cookie of the dashboard
• Fixed Economy: the dashboard shows the correct command names such as /balance and /work
• Fixed /coins could not be granted to a custom role
• Fixed Tickets: a hint pointed to a button that does not exist

Fonts and charts load from our own server, admin functions are checked twice, and the website is available in English.

NoOneEscape Founder of BitGuard

Beta 1.3

2New 6Improved 2Fixed

• New Website: now in English and German, with a language switcher at the top right
• New Documentation completely rewritten, now covering every module from anti-nuke to economy
• Improved Privacy: the website now loads fonts from our own server, your browser no longer connects to Google
• Improved Privacy: the dashboard loads its charts directly from BitGuard instead of an external provider
• Improved Security: the website and dashboard send additional security headers and enforce HTTPS
• Improved Security: social alerts only fetch RSS feeds from public addresses
• Improved Security: admin features are now checked twice, in the dashboard and in the bot itself
• Improved Privacy policy updated
• Fixed Dashboard: after switching servers, the redirect only leads to dashboard pages
• Fixed Dashboard: internal template pages are no longer publicly accessible

All role permissions on one page, live previews for giveaways and the rank card, and clearer editors.

NoOneEscape Founder of BitGuard

Beta 1.2

2New 6Improved 3Fixed

• New Dashboard: new "Permissions" page with all role permissions in one place, from moderator roles to AutoMod and level admins to custom roles per moderation command
• New Dashboard: live preview of the Discord message when creating giveaways and for the rank card
• Improved Dashboard: AutoMod with a consistent look and clear global exceptions including a counter
• Improved Dashboard: more compact settings, bot languages with flags
• Improved Dashboard: level page restructured, changes are saved automatically
• Improved Dashboard: giveaways with quick duration picks, bonus entries clearly marked as Premium and giveaways shown as cards
• Improved Dashboard: reaction roles and embeds with a new overview and a tidy editor with a color picker
• Improved Dashboard: BitGuard logo as favicon
• Fixed Dashboard: winners of ended giveaways are shown again
• Fixed Dashboard: channels appear with their name instead of their ID
• Fixed Dashboard: fixed an error on the level page

BitGuard stops mass deletions and mass bans, backs up roles and channels and no longer needs administrator permissions.

NoOneEscape Founder of BitGuard

Beta 1.1

7New 8Improved 2Fixed

• New Anti-nuke: stops mass deletions, mass bans and permission takeovers, strips the culprit's roles and alerts the team and owner
• New Backups of roles and channels with restore by the server owner
• New Button verification for new members
• New Custom commands, automations and scheduled messages
• New Birthdays with /birthday and polls with /poll
• New BitGuard now speaks German, English, Spanish, French and Russian
• New Data & privacy in the dashboard: retention periods, export and deletion of all server data
• Improved Commands now have consistent English names (e.g. /giveaway, /balance), descriptions appear in your language
• Improved Moderation checks the role hierarchy, nobody can moderate higher-ranked members
• Improved BitGuard no longer hands out roles with dangerous permissions automatically
• Improved Pings only when they are in the text, @everyone in scheduled messages only via a switch
• Improved BitGuard no longer needs Administrator permissions
• Improved The dashboard checks on every change whether you may still manage the server
• Improved Old data is deleted automatically, all server data 30 days after the bot is removed
• Improved The status page shows the bot's real uptime
• Fixed Error messages no longer show internal details
• Fixed Stream titles in social alerts could ping roles

Moderation, AutoMod, Anti-Raid, tickets, levels, economy and much more, all set up in the dashboard.

NoOneEscape Founder of BitGuard

Beta 1.0

21New

• New Moderation: /ban, /unban, /kick, /timeout, /untimeout and warnings with /warn, /warnings and /clearwarns
• New /report: members can report users straight to the moderators
• New AutoMod: spam, duplicate messages, banned words, links, Discord invites, emoji spam and mass mentions, every module switchable
• New Anti-raid protection against join waves
• New Logging: messages, members, roles, channels and moderation actions in one log channel
• New Welcome messages for new members
• New Leveling with /level, /leaderboard and /xp, level roles and adjustable XP sources
• New Economy: your own server currency, /daily, /weekly, /work, /pay, /balance and /richest
• New Shop with /shop, /buy, /inventory and /use, items configurable in the dashboard
• New Mini-games for coins: /coinflip, /dice, /guess and /tictactoe
• New Ticket system with panels, categories and transcripts
• New Reaction roles via button or dropdown
• New Giveaways with automatic draws (/giveaway)
• New Social alerts for Twitch streams and YouTube uploads
• New Temporary voice channels (join-to-create)
• New Starboard for the best messages
• New Server stats channels with live numbers
• New Embed builder in the dashboard
• New Personal reminders with /remind
• New Server ranking: the most active communities in the dashboard and on bitguard.app/ranking, only with the admins' consent
• New Dashboard: set up every module without commands or config files, changes go live instantly