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News Bot is a Discord announcement-publishing bot. It replaces the “type a message, tack on @everyone, hit send” habit with a real publishing system: persistent drafts, a status lifecycle, an opt-in mention policy, multi-channel delivery that tolerates partial failure, restart-safe scheduling, templates, and a full history — all rendered with Discord’s Components V2 UI. No classic embeds anywhere.

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Is News Bot for you?

News Bot is built for servers that publish announcements to more than one channel, more than one person, or on more than an ad-hoc basis. It’s a good fit if you:
  • Post the same announcement to several channels and want one send that reports back exactly which channels succeeded and which didn’t
  • Don’t want @everyone firing by default every time someone posts an update
  • Want to schedule an announcement ahead of time and trust it will actually go out, even if the bot restarts in between
  • Reuse the same kind of announcement often enough that a template saves real time
  • Need a record of what was announced, when, and by whom
If you just need one person to paste a message into one channel occasionally, News Bot is more machinery than you need.

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What it does

Drafts

Every step of building an announcement — title, body, media, CTAs, footer, mention policy, targets — saves immediately, so an interrupted session never loses progress.

Opt-in mentions

New drafts default to No Ping. @here, @everyone, and role pings all require a deliberate choice, and any of them shows a confirmation screen before publishing.

Multi-channel publishing

Each target channel is sent to independently. A missing-permissions or deleted-channel failure on one channel never blocks delivery to the rest.

Restart-safe scheduling

Scheduled time lives in the database, not in memory. A crash mid-publish or downtime over a scheduled time is caught up automatically once the bot is back.

Templates

Save a reusable starting point — title, body, media, mention policy, CTAs — and pre-fill a fresh, fully-editable draft from it any time.

History

Browse past announcements and view, clone, resend failed targets, edit (draft or live), cancel a schedule, or delete — all from one panel.

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How it is built

Preview is the real thing. /news view, the builder’s Preview button, and the actual published message all render through the exact same function — there is no separate preview-only layout that could drift from what actually gets sent. The mention token can’t leak in from the body. A ping (if any) only ever goes into the message’s top-level content, gated by an explicit allowed-mentions setting. The title, body, and footer render inside a Components V2 text block, which Discord has never parsed for @everyone/@here/role syntax — so an admin literally typing “@everyone” into the body cannot trigger a notification. Nothing important lives only in memory. Drafts, schedules, and in-flight publish attempts are all rows in the database. A restart resumes exactly where things left off instead of losing state.

Start here

Get News Bot configured and publish your first announcement.