Changelog

Clearer inactivity messaging and steadier busy-server reliability

• CLNR's inactivity warnings, recovery notices, removal summaries, DMs, and privacy text now use calmer and more transparent wording.
• CLNR now rotates between custom Discord status messages without the "Playing" prefix.
• Improved owner contact reliability: CLNR now keeps the server owner as the fallback contact for important private setup and safety notifications, including after ownership transfers.

Safer Ghost Mode exits and steadier community workflows

• Ghost Mode exits are safer: admins can preview currently inactive members and choose a one-time gradual re-engagement DM before returning to Standard Mode.
• Vote rewards are now limited to one accepted benefit per member every 12 hours, and Border Challenge communities can store up to 3 Shared Travel Jokers at a time.
• Community Casefiles are easier to run with clearer advisories, adaptive vote targets, and more detailed status cards.

Community Casefiles arrive in CLNR

• Community Casefiles bring shared asynchronous Mystery / Detective investigations to CLNR, with fictional evidence, group votes, admin pacing controls, and no need for everyone to be online at once.
• Border Challenge now gives members clearer active-card actions, private collection tools, richer travel hints, better Sea Routes, and more natural route discovery.
• Staff Advisories, inactivity DMs, policy check-in controls, Supporter roles, Premium refreshes, and guild-name handling are smoother.

Border Challenge expeditions, clearer limits, and steadier replies

• Border Challenge now has compact neighbor-count prompts, richer route and relay receipts, monthly community Expeditions with milestones, and community-only public Progress shares.
• Check-In advisory cards, /vote, /checkpremium, and /score_publish now give admins clearer setup, limit, and permission guidance.
• /thanks and other command replies handle brief Discord response outages more gracefully, and the Border Challenge Country Info button stays registered.

Shared Travel Jokers and Staff Review history

• Border Challenge votes can now unlock a shared Travel Joker for active challenge communities.
• /review Staff Reviews now save monthly snapshots automatically and let admins switch between related review cards.
• /vote is easier to scan, and scheduled notifications now retry more safely during temporary Discord outages.

CLNR name, clnr.works, safer onboarding, and vote clarity

• CLNR is now the visible bot name, and the public website now uses clnr.works as its primary domain.
• Setup, onboarding, warning announcements, Monthly Staff Reviews, and optional history scanning now give admins clearer context and safer next steps.
• /vote, Border Challenge sessions, public AHS links, weekly leaderboard recovery, and cleanup reliability are smoother.

Scheduled check-ins and smoother Border Challenge

• /checkin wizard can now save recurring policy reminder check-ins every 30, 45, or 90 days.
• Members who become active again can now lose the inactive role much sooner after their activity update succeeds.
• Border Challenge commands, invalid-move feedback, sea routes, Country Info facts, and Challenge message cleanup are smoother.

Check-ins, Border Challenge, and safer admin workflows

• Anonymous Community Participation and Community Restart check-ins give admins low-pressure aggregate feedback without member-level response data.
• Border Challenge adds a cooperative country-border activity with hidden valid answers, private search help, collections, and clean round endings.
• Dedicated kick-summary routing, member-friendly /about, safer setup checks, clearer permission alerts, and shard-aware background work make admin workflows more reliable.

Community Pulse and calmer staff workflows

• Community Pulse introduces /pulse, a privacy-safe Server Campfire or Revival Tree scene based on aggregate activity signals, with private previews for Free servers and public Premium updates.
• Admins can enable a clean weekly staff inactivity report with /config reports weekly_inactivity, focused on members near or over action thresholds.
• /checkin is easier to set up with support for either a specific rules message link or a rules channel.

Member resets, check-ins, and cleaner whitelists

• /reset_member_activity lets admins reset one human member’s CLNR activity state without kicking them or changing their Discord roles.
• /checkin lets admins post a lightweight activity or policy reminder that members can acknowledge with reactions.
• Whitelisted categories now apply more consistently across activity tracking, channel reviews, and quiet-channel reporting.

Personal notifications and quieter announcements

• Members can now use /notifications to manage personal CLNR DM reminders for each server.
• Inactive-role and reward-role announcements now show plain role names instead of Discord role mentions, so role references stay quiet.
• Yearly anniversary summaries now use clearer community impact wording around fair cleanup, engagement wins, privacy, and Activity Health Score readiness.

Auto-Kick compatibility limits and weekly leaderboards

• Admins can now lower Auto-Kick throughput per run, UTC hour, and UTC day with /config set auto_kick_daily_limit.
• CLNR can now post the current activity streak leaderboard to the warning channel every Monday.
• Bulk uploads, manual kick reviews, kick summaries, purge controls, and announcement diagnostics are clearer and more resilient.

Why button control and cleaner reviews

• Admins can now choose whether new announcement posts include Why? explainer buttons with /toggle why_buttons.
• /review impact, monthly Staff Reviews, and DiscordThings vote handling now give admins clearer follow-up paths and broader vote support.
• Fixes improve exempt-role reporting, /score threshold checks, manual kick confirmations, and reliability during temporary Discord or database interruptions.

Amnesty windows and steadier bulk uploads

• Admins can now set a seasonal decay amnesty window with /config set amnesty_window.
• Long /bulk_user_upload CSV runs now keep progress and final results on one persistent channel message.

Full Review packs and quieter Ghost mode controls

• /bulk_user_upload now asks whether to apply configured restore/swap roles to newly seeded members during roster setup.
• /toggle ghost_member_posts lets Ghost mode servers suppress member-related announcement posts while cleanup, reports, and support keep running.
• Free servers below the tracked-member limit can now use one-time Full Review packs to unlock automatic monthly Staff Reviews without the need to subscribe.

Review History and Safer Cleanup Tools

• /review history adds rolling Premium Staff Review history for saved and staff-posted reviews.
• /purge_channel can now target one selected member or a departed user's Discord ID.
• Review cards now provide clearer trend context, guidance, Premium plan links, and over-limit recovery signals.

Premium Staff Reviews

• /review is the new Premium Staff Reviews home for cleanup, coverage, channel, retention, and engagement reports.
• Existing /summary, /cohorts, and /analytics cohort_report report paths now point staff to the matching /review report.
• Whitelisted categories now correctly exclude their channels from setup readiness checks, permission warnings, activity scans, and report paths.

Clearer Status and Safer Admin Flows

• /ping, the website status page, and the support community status panel now show Discord API issues separately from CLNR issues. This makes it easier to tell when slow or failed responses are caused by Discord itself rather than your server setup or CLNR.
• Free servers that are still within the Free tracked-member limit may now see an optional Buy Me a Coffee button in /summary results and monthly staff summaries. This is only a voluntary support option and does not change how CLNR works. Pro, Scale, and over-limit Free servers keep their existing action-focused controls without this extra button.
• /summary impact and monthly staff summaries now give staff clearer next steps by pointing to /score and cohort reports. When enough activity data is available, they also highlight the most active channels so admins can quickly see where the community is still alive.

Safer Starts and Clearer Community Insight

• Admins can now use /summary cleanup and /summary impact to review cleanup outcomes, engagement signals, and Activity Health Score trends by month, year to date, or since CLNR started collecting summary data.
• CLNR can now post automatic monthly summaries to the staff channel when setup is complete and a staff channel is configured. Admins can turn this off with /toggle monthly_summary.
• CLNR now creates yearly server anniversary summaries, giving staff a concise long-term view of cleanup activity, engagement trends, and Activity Health Score changes since setup.

Recovery Milestones and Cleaner Admin Reviews

• Admins can now use /config add kick_exemption to protect one member from inactivity kicks before a manual review decision is needed.
• CLNR now recognizes members who recover after an inactivity warning. They receive a short welcome-back DM, and the server gets a positive announcement in the same channel and visibility as their original warning, so no new noise is created.
• Members can now be celebrated when they set a new personal activity streak best, including after a quiet period. Personal milestone announcements follow the same visibility settings as other streak updates.