CleanerBot Changelog

New

Manual & scheduled community check-ins
- /checkin wizard now starts with a clear purpose choice, so admins can keep the existing policy reminder flow or post lightweight Community Participation and Community Restart check-ins without mixing all templates into one long list.
- The seven existing policy reminder templates keep their reaction-based acknowledgement flow, rules reference support, optional role mentions, optional deadline text, and current member-facing copy.
- Community Participation and Community Restart check-ins use anonymous one-tap buttons, allow members to change their current choice, close after 24 hours, and show aggregate-only results after individual response rows are deleted.
- Anonymous check-in answers are never shown as member-level data and never change Decay, AHS, review, cleanup, or moderation decisions, giving admins a low-pressure way to hear from quieter members.
- Scheduled Community Check-Ins now live under /polls_wizard and /polls, with their own Check-Ins channel, Mood-first topic default, 3/5/7/14/30-day wizard cadence choices, and a clear rhythm summary that explains CleanerBot posts one rotating topic per cadence.
- Scheduled check-ins rotate only the selected Participation, Mood, Energy, and Looking Ahead topics, use the same 24-hour anonymous lifecycle, skip Ghost Mode, and never fall back to the warning channel or another destination.
- When a scheduled poll or quiz and a scheduled check-in are due on the same UTC day, CleanerBot posts only one community-content item and gives the check-in priority, so admins can run regular prompts without overposting.
- Premium staff action suggestions turn aggregate signals into practical next steps in the Staff Notification Channel: CleanerBot can privately point teams toward a one-time Community Participation check-in, recurring Community Check-Ins, Check-In settings review, /review coverage, or /review channels when those workflows would help staff verify context before acting.
- Staff action suggestion cards include the reason, suggested action, privacy note, 14-day pacing, Not now, and Mute suggestions, so Premium admins get timely guidance without member pressure, public noise, or fallback posting to the wrong channel.
Border Challenge community activity
- Any member can now start a cooperative country-border challenge with /border-challenge start, while admins retain control over stopping or restarting it.
- Members continue the journey by reacting with the flag of a country that shares a land border with the current country. CleanerBot keeps valid answers hidden, validates moves quietly, removes invalid country reactions, and gives rate-limited private tips for unavailable travel reactions without interrupting the Challenge.
- A 🔎 country-search button lets members submit a country name, ISO code, flag, alias, or close typo through a modal; one clear match advances the Challenge, while ambiguous matches open a private country picker before CleanerBot validates the selected move.
- A Help button privately repeats the Challenge rules, so members who join later can catch up without scrolling back to the first message.
- Each successful move posts a clear current-country card, then retires the old active message into a compact Previous country card so the journey stays easy to follow without pinging members.
- When no valid neighboring country remains, CleanerBot unlocks the ✈️ Travel Joker and starts a new Round from another playable country; hidden ✈️ and sea-only 🚢 reactions also help members pursue full collection coverage without revealing valid answers.
- Members can use /border-challenge search to find a country flag, Discord flag search code, and ISO code without revealing valid neighboring answers.
- Members can use /border-challenge collection and /border-challenge missing to post collection progress for themselves or another member with a member mention.
- After 24 hours without a valid move, or when staff stop the Challenge, CleanerBot ends it with a clear closing message and a start-again command link when Discord supports it.
- The Challenge includes localized instructions and does not use player scores, leaderboards, or stored move history.
Dedicated kick-summary channel
- Admins can now send kick summaries to a dedicated private channel with /config set kick_announcement_channel.
- CleanerBot safely falls back to the staff or warning channel when the dedicated channel is missing or unavailable.
Member-friendly /about command
- Members can now use /about to learn what CleanerBot does, how its privacy-first activity tracking works, and which community features they may encounter.
- It highlights fair inactivity management, explains that CleanerBot does not read message content, and brings together useful commands and official links in one compact view.
- Commands and links are clickable, making /about a clear starting point for members who are new to CleanerBot.

Improvements

Safer poll setup
- /polls toggle true now checks whether the poll channel can use reactions before activation.
- When admins enable polls, CleanerBot now ensures the required reaction activity setting is enabled so poll votes can count correctly.
- Polls now check required permissions when admins enable them.
- Closed regular poll messages now show the question before the final result, making non-quiz results easier to read.
Easier reward setup
- /reward activity_rewards true now enables the required streak tracking automatically.
- CleanerBot now points admins to missing reward roles or disabled reaction activity when reward automation cannot work yet.
- Reward-role wizards now reject roles CleanerBot cannot assign before the configuration is saved.
Stronger setup and permission guidance
- Setup and configuration screens now block unusable role or channel choices before saving.
- Permission guidance is clearer when a selected channel, role, or feature setup would fail later.
- Setup preflight now checks configured default and reward roles only when those features actually use them, while treating decay boost roles as references.
- Event auto-posts and auto-provisioning now check their required permissions when admins enable them.
- Whitelist changes now warn admins when they hide CleanerBot delivery channels or all visible activity channels.
Clearer permission alerts
- Manual review and Auto-Kick alerts now explain whether admins should check Kick Members, role hierarchy, server-owner targets, or a Discord-side refusal.
- Inactive, default, and reward-role alerts now explain whether admins should check Manage Roles, managed roles, role hierarchy, or a Discord-side refusal.
- /config validate and /config check_permissions now surface configured role hierarchy and managed-role blockers before role automation fails at runtime.
- Monthly review send failures caused by missing Discord access now record channel-permission guidance instead of leaving admins without a config warning.
- Notification-thread permission alerts now point admins to thread permissions when auto-archive or expiry cleanup cannot modify comment threads.
Auto-Kick testing is less disruptive
- Threshold and decay-rate tuning while Auto-Kick is off no longer triggers the critical-change cooldown.
- Auto-Kick protections remain in place when Auto-Kick is enabled.
Reports and scheduled jobs now respect current settings more reliably
- /report_inactivity clean=true now excludes exempt-member context, keeping the clean view focused on actionable cleanup entries.
- The full inactivity report still shows exemptions for audit context.
- Scheduled monthly reviews and monthly champion jobs now refresh configuration before posting, so disabled or changed settings are respected at execution time.
- Reward-role automation now refreshes reward settings before changing member roles, so mid-run config changes wait for the next evaluated pass.
- Large manual-kick batches now split kicked-member summaries into multiple messages so Discord no longer rejects long cleanup summaries.
Clearer Free over-limit behavior
- /checkpremium can now show when CleanerBot is reducing background work for a Free server above the tracked-member limit.
- Over-limit copy no longer promises indefinite background processing on Free.
- Stored settings and supported admin checks remain available, while long-dormant over-limit Free servers may have nonessential cached activity data pruned.
- CleanerBot no longer auto-leaves long-unconfigured or dormant over-limit Free servers. It keeps the server connection, prunes nonessential stored data on a limited rolling budget, and waits for admins to reactivate setup or upgrade.
- Free servers above the Pro member limit now see Scale as the recommended upgrade tier in over-limit notices.
Safer background work across shard changes
- Server name and member-count updates now stay on the owning shard, preventing duplicate or skipped metadata writes during multi-shard restarts.
- Notification-thread maintenance now re-checks bot shard ownership before archiving, deleting, or sweeping legacy comment threads.
- DM reminder delivery now re-checks shard ownership before sending.
- Weekly leaderboard and inactivity report helpers now refuse to post from non-owning shard workers.
- Cross-shard dormant cleanup now prunes routed data without requiring the bot to leave the server.
- Improved backend startup stability and reduced noisy recovery logs during multi-shard restarts.
Smaller clarity and localization updates
- Community Pulse public cards now keep the privacy note below the scene image for easier scanning.
- Several admin and config messages now resolve through localization instead of showing raw key names, including the /reset_all_decay_scores progress state.
- Czech inactivity warning text now reads more naturally.

Fixes

Community Pulse setup now acknowledges Discord immediately before reposting the public scene, preventing false "application did not respond" notices during channel changes.
/config validate no longer blocks setup completion when the optional CleanerBot admin role is not set.
Kick summaries now fall back to the effective warning channel before the staff channel when no dedicated kick-summary channel is set.
Ghost Mode staff-channel activity announcements now keep member mentions visible without pinging those members.