Statistics Channels

A counter is a channel name. Nothing is posted and nothing is embedded. The number lives in the title, at the top of your channel list where everybody sees it. Every rule below follows from that one fact.

1Creating a counter

1. 1

   Switch it on

   Server Management → Statistics Channels.

2. 2

   Press Add Counter and pick what it counts

   47 numbers: total members, members only, bots, boosters, boost tier, channels, roles, emojis, stickers, bans, scheduled events, people in voice, open tickets, messages today, members holding a role you pick, and more. Follower counts have their own Social tab, and targets their own Goals tab.

3. 3

   Write the channel name

   Your own words around the number, up to 80 characters: Members: {count} or 👥 {count} humans. Type { for the other placeholders: {raw_count} (the number without punctuation), {server}, {total_members} (for ratios), and {role}, {game} or {category} on the counters that have one.

4. 4

   Choose the channel type

   Voice is the default and the best choice. Its name is kept exactly as written. Categories and stages behave the same way; text and announcement channels do not (see Number format).

5. 5

   Publish

   Arclo creates the channel within about half a minute, in a 📊 Server Stats category unless you picked one (or at the top of the server with No category), stops members joining or posting in it, and starts updating. Save draft keeps the counter without creating anything.

The rename budget

• The refresh interval is set on the Settings tab, from 5 minutes to 24 hours, and starts at 10 minutes. Nothing faster is accepted: it would burn both edits and freeze the counter for the rest of the window, the exact “it stopped updating” complaint.
• Arclo keeps its own budget and declines a rename rather than queueing one.
• A counter whose name already reads correctly is never rewritten.
• Gateway events (a member joining, a role being created) nudge the next update earlier; they never rename directly.

Number format

Set per counter, and the choices follow the channel type, because Discord slugs the names of text and announcement channels: it lowercases them and turns commas and spaces into dashes.

Social counters

Press Follow an account on the Social tab to put a follower, subscriber or member count in a channel name, from any of eight platforms: Instagram, Reddit, Twitch, Kick, YouTube, X, Bluesky and Facebook. Pick the platform, then search for the account or paste its handle. Arclo reads the public count, so there is nothing to connect and no login, and the channel is named after the account: {creator}: {count}.

Goals

A goal is its own kind of counter, not a flag on one: you can set “1,000 members” without already owning a member counter. Press Create Goal on the Goals tab, pick what it tracks and set Aim for. Its name can also show {goal} (the target), {remaining}, {percent} and {bar}, a progress bar, so a fresh goal reads like Members: 1,250 / 2,000.

• Only the 13 numbers that climb can be goals: members, bots, boosts, tickets, today's messages and joins, invite links, follower counts and the like. A target on your boost tier is a misunderstanding rather than a goal.
• Announce it in posts a short Goal reached message the first time the target is met, and only then. Leave it on Don't announce it and the channel simply fills up.
• Editing the target re-arms the announcement.
• A goal cannot be published without a target. Save draft keeps it until it has one.
• Goals have their own /goal command.

Settings

Where counters go

The category new counters are created under: one you have, Create one for me (named 📊 Server Stats unless you rename it), or No category, which puts them at the top of the server. Each counter can override it.

How often they refresh

From 5 minutes to a day, 10 minutes by default. Joins, boosts and role changes still pull a counter forward the moment they happen.

Stop members using counter channelsOn by default

Voice and stage counters can't be joined, and text and announcement counters can't be posted in. Applied to the channels Arclo creates.

Recreate a counter's channel if it's deleted

Off by default, so deleting a counter's channel in Discord deletes the counter with it. Switched on, Arclo makes a new channel instead.

Records

The Peak members and Peak online figures behind the two peak counters, each with a Reset button.

Logging

A line when a counter or goal is created or deleted, when its channel vanishes, when a goal is reached, or when a missing permission stops it updating. Refreshes are not logged.

The three limits are counted separately, so a server full of counters still has room for goals.

Problems

The builder lists anything wrong directly under its toolbar, and tells three kinds apart:

• Something only you can supply (no role picked, no game named, no category chosen, no account, a goal with no target): Publish refuses it, and Save draft keeps it until you finish.
• Waiting on Arclo: a counter about who is online while Arclo cannot read presence, or a social counter on a platform that is not set up yet. It saves and publishes normally, its card says Waiting, and it starts on its own once Arclo can read the number.
• Warnings: a name with no {count} in it, or a text or announcement channel, which Discord lowercases. They never stop a save.
• /counter check reads out the same list for every counter, plus the last error each one hit, such as a missing Ban Members permission on a bans counter or Manage Server on an invite links counter.

Commands