Voice Linking

Two features other bots split in half — voice text linking and VC roles — as one system, because a server that wants either almost always wants both about the same channel, and two systems would mean two exemption lists that can disagree.

1How a link is built

A link is a source plus up to three effects. It is a configuration with its own page, in the same shape as a Temporary Voice hub.

1. 1

   Switch it on

   Utilities → Voice Linking, then Create Link.

2. 2

   Choose the source

   Specific channels, a whole category, every voice channel in the server, or the rooms a Temporary Voice hub creates. The last two deliberately name channels that do not exist yet.

3. 3

   Add the effects

   A role, a text channel, join and leave notices — any combination.

4. 4

   Save

   Nothing is written until you press Create, so opening the page and backing out leaves nothing behind.

The three effects

Roles

Grant while connected, remove while connected (the reverse case — hiding something from people who are in the call), or keep, which gives the role and lets them keep it.

Text channels

A per-member permission overwrite granting View and Read History, and optionally Send. The people in the call can see it; everybody else cannot see it at all.

Notices

A message in those channels when somebody joins or leaves, optionally deleting itself after a while.

Exceptions and timing

Except these channels

Carve specific channels out of a category- or server-wide link.

Include stages

Off by default.

Exempt roles and members

And a skip bots switch.

Leave grace period

Keep the role and the access for a few seconds after they disconnect, so switching channels or a brief drop does not flicker.

Purge on empty

Clear the linked chat once the call ends, optionally after a delay.

Handing things back

• Switching the system off releases everything it was holding rather than leaving it behind.
• Deleting a link releases its grants first.
• A restart does not strand anybody — outstanding grants are reconciled on startup.

The card's three states

Off, on but half-built, and live. The middle one exists because “switched on and doing nothing” is a state this system can silently be in — a link with a source and no effects, for example.

Commands