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Bring your people along

How do I share game updates in Discord without making a notification feed?

A game-updates channel should leave members with ideas, not with another reason to mute the server. Keep the feed separate from conversation, set a clear purpose and post less often than your first instinct suggests.

Try it on GGPN

  1. Add GGPN Bot to a server you manage, then run /new to choose its new-game channel.
  2. Turn on Free only and Co-op or multiplayer only only when those filters fit the community.
  3. Run /new again whenever you need to change the channel or filters; use a game page watch for a personal upcoming-game reminder.

Choose one job for the channel

Decide whether the channel is for new games the community might try, planned game-night options, or major server notices. Mixing all three makes it hard to know which messages need attention.

Write a short channel description that explains what will appear and what will not. Members should not have to discover the notification policy by receiving a week of unexpected posts.

Use filters and a steady pace

GGPN Bot /new lets a server administrator choose a channel and optionally limit its source-backed new-release posts to Free only, Co-op or multiplayer only, or both. It posts at most one fitting release in an hour and does not use @everyone pings.

Those posts are discovery prompts, not a complete release calendar or an event schedule. If a server needs a specific game-night decision, make that conversation in the relevant chat instead of relying on a feed to do it.

Keep personal watches personal

A player can watch one upcoming game from its GGPN page and manage it in Profile. That personal watch is separate from a server channel, so one person following a release does not subscribe the entire community.

For any game a group is considering, open the official page before sharing a price, platform or timing claim. The current source is the final authority.