Information Channel

A rules channel is usually a wall of text somebody pasted in once and cannot edit without reposting. The Information Channel is a list of elements you arrange on the dashboard, each published as its own message. Change one paragraph and only that message is edited.

1How it works

1. 1

   Pick the channel

   An existing one, or Create an #information channel for me: publishing then creates a channel members can read but not post, start threads or react in, which needs Arclo to have Manage Channels. An existing channel keeps its own permissions.

2. 2

   Add elements

   A banner image, an embed, a plain text block or a separator. Each posts as its own Discord message, except that by default a banner rides inside the embed under it.

3. 3

   Arrange them

   Drag to reorder. The order in the list is the order in the channel.

4. 4

   Publish

   While the order of messages stays the same, Arclo edits only the messages that changed and leaves the rest alone, so links to them keep working. Adding, removing or reordering an element, moving the layout to another channel or switching the design reposts the whole layout, because Discord cannot reorder messages: the new copy goes up first and the old one comes down after.

#information

ArcloBOTToday at 12:00 PM

Welcome to Nebula Collective

You made it! This channel is your map to everything happening around here. Getting started Have a look around. Every channel has a topic explaining what it's for. Drop a hello in the chat and tell us what brought you our way. Grab your roles to unlock the corners of the server you care about. Take a minute to skim the guidelines below. They're short, and they keep this place enjoyable for everyone.

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Element types

Embed section

The full set of slots. Author and author icon, title, description, thumbnail, image, fields, color, footer, footer icon and timestamp. Fields can be marked as dividers, which draw only in Components V2; the author and footer icons draw only in a Traditional Embed. Each section has its own color, or a random one on every publish, and one color can be applied to every section at once.

Image / banner

An image element: a theme from the banner library (still or animated, with your text on every frame), drawn in the banner studio, or uploaded. The usual home for section headers. Recolor re-hues the selected banner, or all of them at once, to any color you pick (not one too close to gray), animated ones included (every frame is recolored), and the library previews every theme in it while you choose.

Text message

A plain message, for anything that reads better without a card around it.

Separator

A divider line, or just a gap, with small or large spacing. Components V2 only: a classic embed has nowhere to draw one.

Embeds or Components V2

A switch at the top of the builder decides how every embed section publishes: Components V2 or Traditional Embed. Text messages look the same either way. A new channel starts on Components V2.

• Traditional Embed: the classic bordered card. Familiar, and what most servers expect.
• Components V2: containers with real separators, a thumbnail as a section accessory and media galleries. Better for a long structured page; it is what makes the separator element possible.

Banners inside embeds

The Banners inside embeds switch next to the design puts each banner inside the embed right below it, so a section's banner and its text read as one card. It is on for a new channel. Turning it on or off changes how many messages the channel holds, so the next publish reposts the layout.

• Components V2: the banner sits at the top of the container, above the title.
• Traditional Embed: a classic embed can only show a large image under its text, so the banner goes there. An embed with an image of its own keeps its banner as a separate message.
• A banner with no embed right below it (a text block, another banner or the end of the list) stays a message of its own.

Things to know

• The preview is exactly what Discord will render, including which fields sit side by side.
• Publishing validates first: an element missing something required blocks the publish and says which one.
• Message above the layout is an optional plain message, published first and always kept on top.
• {server} is the one placeholder, filled with the server's name.
• A mention in the layout pings only what the person who presses Publish could ping in that channel.
• Images you upload are stored by Arclo, and released once the published layout no longer uses them.
• A channel Arclo creates is read-only for @everyone, which is what makes it an information channel rather than a chat. If you pick an existing channel, take away Send Messages there yourself.
• If somebody deletes a published message by hand, the page says so, and the next publish reposts the layout.
• Switching the system off takes the published messages down from Discord. The layout is kept, and the next publish posts it again.
• Restore defaults brings back the starter layout, and Undo reset puts yours back.

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