Hi Nick! A few things I've done to grow: 1. List the server on https://discord.me/servers with a description and tags that allow people to find you 2. Promote it on socials 3. Some Reddit threads allow for Discord promotion. There's a few Reddit threads that are specifically for sharing Discord communities, although personally I think most people there are interested in sharing rather than joining. Still, doesn't hurt to share! To boost engagement I added a custom bot that gives points (the points don't matter like Who's Line is it Anyway🤣) and will give answers to yes/no questions. Dyno bot also has some fun interactive mods. I'm pretty new to running a Discord so feel free to reach out if you want to share learnings! I'm interested to see what others have to add!

We've grown our Discord servers to 18,000 users in 11 months. For us, we don't even have a welcome channel- too many users coming in and out daily to personally welcome- I also find the pings from those bots when joining a server to be annoying. Just have a good organized server. We have a informational category and the first channel is titled START. Where it gives some info about the platform, onboarding videos to help navigate such a large server and for those new to Discord, FAQ's, rules, scam prevention, and self role assigning. We have an about chanel introducing team members. Then a app-and-bot channel going into detail about our app & Discord bot with links to the app & documentation. An upgrade-to-pro channel going over what the pekrs are of our membership, and how to subscribe. A voting/feedback channel, where we gather feedback and hold polls on upcoming features, as we a community driven app. Then a testimonial channel where members can leave a review or testimonial. We're a stock/futures/forex/crypto trading server so we have a lot of channels related to trading signals, analysis, ideas, charts, etc. These are organized by category- so one for stocks, options, & crypto. A channel strictly for market related chat, and a hangout channel where anything goes. A general help channel for trading related, and a app/bot help channel strictly for support with our app or bot. Giveaway channel- only available when giveaways are coming up or live. Voice category for live strea trading, market talk, hangout. Then we have a category for educational content, where users can't post in and we post our guides, videos, etc. Then we have channels where news RSS feeds get sent to, and voice channels for Bloomberg & CNBC radio bots stream 24/7. Our staff/admin only channels like bot logs, staff only chat, etc. It's best to have good discord bots too. Especially a good moderation bot to get rid of spam- discord has a new automod feature where you can put in words or phrases that blocks from being sent. Because scammers target our server a lot we have 'burner accounts' that just sit in the server on idle relaying DM's into a channel where our mod bot monitors and will quarantine or ban users depending on the messages sent- typically 99% of unsolicited DM's are spam/scam related. Damn this was a long read, sorry about that. Was just being thorough. You can check out our server for yourself if you'd like https://discord.gg/tradehub

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