NewTripwire: pick a channel and Arklynn posts a warning there. Anyone who writes in it anyway is softbanned - spam bots write in the first channel they see, people read the sign. Staff with Manage Server are never caught, and the message counts every catch.
NewCases: warnings, scams, tripwire catches and stopped attacks now share one numbered record. /case list shows the latest or one member, /case view shows one in full, and each case is posted to the moderation log.
NewEvery server decides what too many warnings lead to: up to three timeouts of 10 minutes to 28 days, a ban, or nothing at all. Set it in the dashboard; /warn counts towards your numbers, not ours.
NewWarn, look up and clear a member's warnings from the dashboard, by ID, mention or username.
New/antinuke trust: only the owner, and the people the owner names, can change Anti-Nuke - in Discord and on the website. A taken-over admin account can no longer switch the protection off.
NewThe anti-nuke alert has a Restore from backup button and a link to the live log.
BetterAnti-Nuke watches three clocks instead of one: a fast burst, a slow attack spread over ten minutes, and a mix of different actions that each stay under their own limit. Channel edits and member prunes are watched too.
BetterUndoing an attack puts things back in the right order - roles first, then categories, then channels - so a restored channel gets its permissions back and lands in its own category.
BetterGiving someone Administrator without being trusted is undone on the spot. Members with three or more warnings cannot be given dangerous roles. A bot that attacks is always banned.
BetterThe scam filter actually catches scams: look-alike domains such as dlscord-gift, letters swapped for numbers or foreign look-alikes, and @everyone with a link from someone not allowed to ping. A catch deletes the message, counts as a warning and times the account out for an hour.
BetterArklynn is free. Every module and every limit is unlocked on every server - 15 backups, 100 giveaway winners, 50 queued announcements, all of it. The supporter tiers are gone; /donate says how to help keep it online, if you want to.
BetterThe dashboard overview shows a protection score you can act on, what was caught in the last two weeks as a chart, and the latest cases. Anything on the checklist can be skipped.
BetterEvery module page opens with its own numbers - verified members, people per level, open tickets, entries per giveaway - and is split into Settings, Actions and Activity instead of one long column.
BetterThe dashboard sidebar is grouped into Protection, Members, Activity and Tools, with a search box. Saving moved into a bar that only appears when something changed.
BetterThe front page shows the real Discord messages the bot sends, and every system has its own page under Docs.
BetterThe site scrolls smoothly again: blurred panels over moving content, a navbar that re-rendered on every hover and animations that kept running offscreen were all removed.
FixedTrusted users and "never punish" users could not be saved from the dashboard - the list was quietly dropped on every save.
FixedPicking a tripwire channel in the dashboard and pressing Save did nothing, and the button then said no channel was picked.
FixedA member who jumped past a warning threshold - two warnings to seven - was never punished. The highest threshold reached now applies.
FixedA new ban wrote over a member's whole ban history instead of adding to it.
FixedCards in the dashboard were see-through in the dark theme, which is most of why it read as text floating on black.
FixedThe analytics chart drew a stray diagonal line under its curve.
v5.5
Items and a new look
NewThe economy has things in it now. Buy a Fishing Rod or a Shovel once, then fish and dig every fifteen minutes for something worth selling.
NewFourteen items across three kinds: tools you buy once, usables that do something and are gone, and finds you cannot buy at all - a Diamond sells for 20 000 and the only way to get one is to go looking.
NewShop, buy, sell, use and inventory, as slash commands and short prefix ones. "sell diamond all" works, and "buy gold" finds the Gold Nugget without you typing the whole name.
NewA Lucky Charm gives 1.5x coins for an hour and an XP Potion doubles XP. Neither touches what slots, dice or blackjack pay - a tier or an item can make coins arrive faster, never change the odds.
NewSupporter tiers exist: /supporter status and compare show what each one raises. Nothing is for sale yet, and every protection stays free whatever happens.
NewEvery Last.fm card now carries a button to the board on the website, and it opens on your server rather than everyone.
Newarklynn.xyz/lastfm gained a "playing now" strip and an "in common" section showing the artists more than one person in your server actually plays.
New/lastfm covers lets a server decide about cover art: guess as before, always hide, or never hide. The guess only reads colour, so it misses filtered artwork - a server that needs covers hidden should be able to say so rather than hope.
BetterThe whole site was redrawn. No more purple: warm champagne on true black, one accent per section, and every icon drawn by hand instead of loaded from an icon font.
BetterA new front page that says one thing at a time, and a loading screen with the Arklynn mark rather than a spinner.
BetterThe dashboard is a list instead of a wall of cards, your personal settings have tabs, and a tab tells you when it is holding an unsaved change.
BetterThe navigation lost half its links. Commands, Dashboard, Embed, Status and Team stayed; everything else moved to the footer, where people look for it anyway.
FixedScrolling is no longer slow. The dashboard, analytics and the policy pages were each recomputing dozens of blurred panels on every frame.
FixedOn the analytics page, "All" quietly showed the same 30 days as "30d". It now asks for everything there is.
FixedDim text everywhere got a step brighter. Several paragraphs had been set in the shade meant for one-word labels.
FixedA hidden Last.fm cover no longer blurs the name of the person playing it - that is the one part of the tile that should stay readable.
v5.4
Last.fm
NewLast.fm: link your account once with /lastfm set, then show what you are playing on a card with the cover art, not a plain embed.
NewTop artists, albums and tracks over any period, your listening profile, and your recent tracks.
NewCollages: a 3x3, 4x4 or 5x5 grid of your most played album covers, with or without the titles written on it.
NewWho knows: see who else in the server listens to an artist, ranked by plays. Leave the name out and it uses whatever you are playing.
NewCharts come as pictures, not lists: cover art, a bar for each entry and your avatar on the card, so it still says whose it is after it has been forwarded.
NewLinking is done by Last.fm itself - you approve it while signed in there. Nobody can claim somebody else account by typing their name.
NewCovers that may show nudity are sent hidden, with the reason written underneath.
NewA Last.fm page on the website shows what everyone is playing, without running a command.
NewUserinfo shows what somebody is listening to while they are listening.
NewShort forms for everyday use: .fm, .np, .wk, .fmtop, .fmalbums, .fmtracks and .fmcollage.
NewRoles work as slash commands too: /role give, remove and bulk. Bulk still takes a pasted line of mentions, which beats picking twenty members one at a time.
NewWarnings work as slash commands now: /warn add, view, list, remove and clear. The prefix versions are unchanged and both use the same records.
FixedCommands were nearly all filed under General on the website. They now take the category of the module they belong to, so Last.fm, AniList, Anti-Nuke and the rest have their own.
FixedCPU and memory showed a dash on the status page even while the bot was healthy.
NewAniList: look up any anime, manga or character and get a card built from its own cover art, plus your watching profile with your favourites along the bottom.
NewAn AniList page on the website showing what everyone is watching, ranked by episodes.
NewLinking an AniList profile is proved, not claimed: the bot gives you a code, you paste it into your own bio for a moment, and it checks.
NewShort forms: .anime, .manga and .al.
NewEvery giveaway gets its own page: what was on offer, who entered and who won, readable without opening Discord and still there months later. The entry count in the giveaway message links to it.
v5.3
Steadier and quicker off the mark
FixedThe status page had been stuck for hours at a time, showing the bot as offline with no ping while it was running fine. Nothing was being saved: the store the site writes to was not reachable in production, and every write was quietly kept in memory and thrown away. Status, ping, CPU and memory are live again.
FixedCounting settings never reached the website: the bot was calling an address that did not exist, so every sync answered "not found" and quietly did nothing.
FixedThe status page stopped updating: the bot hit an internal error every time it tried to report in, so the numbers on the site went stale without anyone noticing.
FixedLevel XP earned in the first minute after a restart was silently thrown away. It is kept now.
BetterRestarts are quicker and the bot settles down sooner after one.
BetterError messages say what to type, not only what went wrong.
v5.2
Anti-Nuke
NewAnti-Nuke: mass channel and role deletions, mass bans and kicks, webhook floods, bot adds and server setting changes are caught and stopped. Every limit can be tuned.
NewAttacks are answered before the damage spreads: the attacker is quarantined, kicked or banned, and deleted channels and roles are recreated from the last backup.
NewHanding someone Administrator, or a new bot arriving with dangerous permissions, counts as an attack on its own - it does not wait for the first channel to fall.
NewAccounts that attacked another server running Arklynn arrive flagged, and can be stopped from receiving permissions here.
NewServer structure backups every 6 hours, plus save and restore on demand.
NewScam message filter (Nitro, Steam gift, giveaway scams) and invite links restricted to chosen roles.
NewA live log in the dashboard: what was caught, who did it, what happened to them - within seconds.
BetterAll of the protection is free. Premium only ever adds extras such as more stored backups and longer history.
v5.1
Commands grouped, live status, live command list
FixedThe bot could not start any more because it had more commands than Discord allows (100). Related commands are now grouped.
BetterEconomy, VoiceMaster, Starboard and Counting commands moved into groups: /economy, /voice, /starboard, /counting.
FixedThe bot crashed every time somebody joined a server.
FixedThe status page showed "Operational" even while the bot was offline, and never showed a ping.
New/ping now reports real values: gateway latency per shard, CPU and memory, and whether the dashboard connection is alive.
NewCPU and memory load are shown on the status page.
FixedThe top servers list was cached for 24 hours. It now follows the bot within a minute.
NewThe command list on the website is generated by the bot itself, so it can never be out of date again.
New/help and .help show the exact usage for both slash and prefix, with autocomplete.
BetterError messages are short and say what to type instead of only what went wrong.
FixedThe counter behind hug, kiss and the other action commands reset on every restart.
NewDashboard: a server overview with server ID, owner, your rank and which modules are running.
NewDashboard: an admin panel for the bot owners with live status, queue and API logs.
v4.0
Dashboard, Economy & Casino, reworked Giveaways
NewDashboard (beta): log in at arklynn.xyz/dashboard, pick a server you manage, and changes go live instantly - Welcome, Leave, Booster, Leveling, Autoroles, Logs, Verify, Tickets, Invites, Birthdays, Counting, Starboard, VoiceMaster, Server Stats and Giveaways.
NewEmbed Editor with a live preview, and it sends to any channel.
NewMy Settings: birthday, timezone, themes and privacy, all in one place.
NewEconomy and Casino: global coins that carry across every server. .balance shows a card with your level, tier and XP bar, plus .daily, .work, .pay and .quests.
NewCasino games: .slots with a global jackpot, .coinflip, .dice and .blackjack.
NewLeaderboards with .richest and .levels, card themes with .cointheme, and .vote with a check.
NewTiers from Bronze through Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond and Master up to Legend.
BetterGiveaways reworked: /giveaway start, end, reroll, cancel and list (or .gw), a join button, a participant list, a result image, and requirements for roles and account age.
BetterBirthdays: set yours with .bday set DD/MM/YYYY, and each server gets its own channel through /setup_bday.
BetterA clean white design throughout, and mentioning @Arklynn always works as a prefix.
BetterThe Embed Builder works on mobile again and lags far less.
New.roast added.
FixedWelcome messages not sending, the ticket panel, counting running commands twice, VoiceMaster buttons after a restart and claiming, duplicate starboard posts, level blacklist and bypass, level-up variables, AFK being lost on restart, voice time, menu page buttons, booster settings and a long tail of small errors.
BetterThe old giveaway system is gone (/reroll became /giveaway reroll), along with the global birthday channel, duplicate events and the "Economy coming soon" placeholder.