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KindBot
Discord Bot · Community & Kindness
🌸 A Discord bot designed to help communities build a culture of appreciation, positivity, and kindness.
KudosCommunity JournalDaily PromptsStreaksChallenges & BadgesWellnessDashboard & Team Access
In partnership with sharekindnessproject.org
About this bot
KindBot helps you recognize and celebrate the good in your community with interactive commands, automated daily prompts, engagement features, and a dashboard for guided setup, team-based moderation workflows, and service health.
Best for
- Community servers building a positive culture
- Support servers recognizing volunteers
- Gaming communities celebrating sportsmanship
- Educational servers encouraging peer recognition
Quick start
- Invite KindBot to your server.
- Configure daily prompts with /dailyprompt.
- Open server controls in /dashboard and set delegate access with /teamaccess.
- Start using /kudos, /appreciate, and /journal.
- Track progress via /profile and /streaks.
Key features
Kudos & recognition
- Give kudos with /kudos.
- Daily limits help prevent spam and encourage thoughtful recognition.
- Track kudos given and received.
- View your recognition profile with /profile.
Community journal
- Share appreciations with /appreciate.
- Moderated submissions help keep content high quality.
- Browse entries with /journal or search with /journalsearch.
- Moderator approval via /journalapprove.
Daily kindness prompts
- Automated daily prompts to configured channels.
- Custom schedule and timezone support.
- Can fetch fresh prompts from an external kindness API.
- Admin setup with /dailyprompt.
- Optional DM delivery with /dailypromptdm.
Streaks, challenges, and badges
- Track appreciation streaks and view leaderboards with /streaks.
- Join challenges with /challenge.
- Earn and view badges with /badges.
More capabilities
Random kindness suggestions
- Random acts: /actofkindness
- Daily compliments: /compliment
- Tips + affirmations: /kindnesstips, /affirmation
- Self-care reminders: /selfcare
Social features
- Daily partner journal pact: /pact
- React to entries: /react
- Activity summaries: /recap
- Share inspiration: /wisdom
Wellness & support
- Quick mood check-ins: /checkup
- Resources directory: /resources
- Crisis hotlines and support communities available.
Dashboard & team access
- Open workspace and server settings quickly with /dashboard.
- Guided setup wizard helps validate access, channels, and DM defaults.
- Configure delegates, approvers, and developer roles with /teamaccess.
- Review flagged wellness reports via /checkupalerts.
- Live status view includes uptime, ping, websocket, and database health.
Personalization
- Preferences + privacy controls: /settings
- Notification preferences for kudos and reactions.
- Daily prompt DMs: /dailypromptdm
Command examples
/kudos @user message:Thanks for helping!
/appreciate message:I love this community
/journal
/dailypromptdm enable:true time:08:00
/dailyprompt action:set channel:#general
/dashboard guild_id:123456789012345678
Admin & moderation
Configure server prompts and news channels, and moderate journal submissions before they’re published.
/dailyprompt action:set channel:#general
/journalpending
/journalapprove id:123
/setnewschannel channel:#announcements
/teamaccess action:list
/checkupalerts action:list limit:5
Privacy & reliability
- Reliable scheduled delivery with single-instance coordination for broadcasts.
- Health checks and graceful error handling for stability.
- Optional error reporting and monitoring via webhooks.
Command index
Every KindBot command, grouped by purpose, with key options.
Journal
/appreciate
Post to the community journal — share what you’re grateful for today.
Options: message (required, 3–500 chars), secret (optional, post anonymously)
/journal
A monitored log of everything the community appreciates.
/journalsearch
Search approved journal entries by keyword or username.
Options: query (required), username (optional), limit (optional)
/journalpending
List pending appreciations awaiting moderator approval.
/journalapprove
Approve a pending appreciation so it appears in /journal.
Options: id (required)
/journalclear
Delete a journal entry by id (approvers/developers only).
Options: id (required)
/react
React to a journal entry with an emoji.
Options: emoji (required: 💚 | 🎉 | 🙌 | ✨ | 🌟), entry_id (optional), user (optional), username (optional)
/pact
Partner with someone to post to the journal together daily.
Options: subcommands: start (partner required), end, status
Recognition & social
/kudos
Give recognitions (kudos) to others for helpfulness, kindness, or good deeds.
Options: user (required)
/compliment
Generate a random, positive compliment for a user.
Options: user (required)
/profile
Check out your personal profile or someone else’s.
Options: user (required)
/recap
View your kindness activity summary for the week or month.
Options: period (optional: week | month | all), user (optional)
Prompts
/dailyprompt
Manage or send daily kindness prompts (server config + send).
Options: action (required: set | remove | send), channel (optional), message (optional), preview (optional)
/dailypromptdm
Configure daily prompt delivery to your DMs and set your preferred time. Optionally send a test DM.
Options: action (required: enable | disable), time (optional 24h), timezone (optional), test (optional)
Challenges & progress
/challenge
Join and complete kindness challenges to earn badges.
Options: action (required: view | join | progress | my), challenge (optional), amount (optional, min 1)
/badges
View your earned badges and badge collection.
Options: user (optional)
/streaks
Show journal posting streaks: your streak or a leaderboard of top streaks.
Options: user (optional), limit (optional)
Wellness
/checkup
Quick wellness check-in to track how you’re feeling.
Options: mood (required: great | good | okay | struggling | notgood), note (optional, max 200 chars)
/resources
Find helpful mental health, crisis, and wellbeing resources.
Options: category (optional: crisis | mental | wellbeing | community)
/selfcare
Get a self-care or self-compassion reminder.
Kindness extras
/actofkindness
Generate a random act of kindness to complete today.
/kindnesstips
Resources and tips for being kind and respectful online.
/affirmation
Generate a random affirmation.
/wisdom
Share or browse inspirational quotes, thoughts, and wisdom.
Options: action (required: share | browse), text (optional, max 500), anonymous (optional)
/tskp
Learn about The Share Kindness Project and how you can get involved.
Dashboard & moderation
/dashboard
Open the KindBot dashboard, or jump directly to server settings for a specific server.
Options: guild_id (optional; Discord server ID)
/teamaccess
Manage dashboard delegates and global approver/developer access roles.
Options: action (required: list | add | remove | listapprovers | addapprover | removeapprover | listdevelopers | adddeveloper | removedeveloper), user_id (optional), expires_at (optional ISO date), scopes (optional comma list)
/checkupalerts
Review flagged wellness check-ins and follow up with users when needed.
Options: action (required: list | review | checkin), id (optional; required for review/checkin), limit (optional, 1-10), message (optional)
Settings & utility
/settings
Manage your preferences and privacy settings.
Options: category (required: view | notifications | privacy), setting (optional), value (optional)
/templates
Browse message templates for journal posts or giving kudos.
Options: category (optional: teamwork | creativity | support | leadership | humor | helpfulness)
/help
Get assistance with commands and error messages.
Options: error_code (optional)
/info
Display information about the project.
/invite
Invite and welcome KindBot to your server or DMs.
/support
Get support for KindBot by joining the support server.
/suggest
Send an anonymous suggestion to the KindBot team.
Options: opens a modal with a text input
Server news
/setnewschannel
Set or remove this server’s channel to receive news posts.
Options: channel (optional; omit to remove)
/listnewschannel
Show this server’s configured news channel.
Options: global (optional; list all subscriptions, developer-only)
Support
Need help or have suggestions? Use /help in the bot (includes error code lookup), or visit the support server via /support. You can also share ideas with /suggest.
Conscherry support options live on the Help page.
Bot info and links: /info, /invite
Utilities: /templates, /settings, /dashboard, /teamaccess, /checkupalerts, /setnewschannel, /listnewschannel