Changelog

Staff briefings, clearer Premium tools, and easier follow-up

• Prepare a private Staff Meeting Brief with five headline findings and a detailed download.
• Explore clearer Premium benefits and previews, and refresh subscription access after a purchase.
• Open workflows directly from feature buttons and use clearer import, export, and voting screens.

DM-only inactivity notices and simpler manual reviews

• Turn off inactivity channel notices while keeping threshold DMs and inactivity actions enabled.
• Two moderator approvals now trigger eligible inactivity kicks without an extra execution step.
• Settings, voting buttons, batch approvals, and pre-kick DMs work more clearly and reliably.

Easier sharing, Discord purchases, and smoother admin actions

• Share CLNR through a dedicated page with privacy highlights and useful links.
• Eligible servers can buy upgrades and Full Review packs directly through Discord.
• Removal approvals, admin buttons, setup forms, and staff reminders work more reliably.

Icebreakers for quiet channels and smoother admin workflows

• Optional Icebreakers help restart quiet-channel conversations with a single open question.
• Admins get clearer previews, status information, export errors, and changelog fallback.
• Manual Kick Reviews and open admin screens handle large reviews and revoked access more safely.

Major security release for members, servers, and bot hosting

• A major security release for members, servers, and CLNR bot hosting.
• Stronger Staff Removal Approval safeguards, safer messages and CSV exports.
• Clearer setup and score screens, more reliable queued actions, and fixes for settings and activity recovery.

Safer manual removal decisions and staff-approved actions

• Recovered candidates in Manual Kick Review give admins more context when a member became active during an inactivity path before staff acted.
• Staff Removal Approval adds an optional, free workflow requiring one requester and two other authorized staff members before CLNR carries out a sensitive kick or ban.
• Admins gain clearer configuration controls, improved activity recovery, more shareable community game results, and steadier supporter and interaction handling.

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 more reliable background tasks 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 service 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.