Getting set up

The Getting set up page answers two questions: what to do right now, and what is still missing. It reads the server’s real configuration rather than a counter of completed steps: a setting you clear becomes “to do” again.

Where to find it

The General → Prise en main section: Open it ↗. The page is in beta. The former Build my server page was merged into it: laying out the structure and checking what is left to set are the same moment.

Part of this page is not translated

The Build my server block follows the dashboard language, but the rest of the page - the next actions, the progress ring, the groups of points - is displayed in French whatever your language. Those labels are quoted verbatim below.

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The next three actions

At the top of the page, three cards name the points that are missing the most, in the recommended order. Each says what the setting brings, exactly what is missing, and leads straight to the page concerned. The first one is marked À faire maintenant.

Progress

A ring shows the percentage of points settled and the done / total count. Next to it, Kotbo names the next point to handle, or announces Tout est configuré when none is left.

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Building the server

The Build my server block lays out the whole structure in a single operation: categories, channels, roles and permissions, already wired to the Kotbo modules.

Administrators only

Creating channels requires administrator rights: a moderator does not see this block.

Once per server

The setup can only be run once. Once done, the block folds up and shows who ran it and when; the Revoir button reopens the details of what was created. Contact support if it needs to run again.

Checking the permissions

Kotbo states at the top of the block whether it holds the permissions it needs. If some are missing, it lists them and reminds you that the simplest fix is to give it the Administrator role for the setup.

Channels will be named in the server’s language.

Choosing what gets created

The What Kotbo will create panel lists everything that will be laid out, section by section:

• Server access and the Member role
• Verification (captcha)
• Security (including the honeypot channel)
• Welcome
• Staff
• Tickets
• Statistics (counters kept live in the channel names)
• Text channels
• Fun
• Bots
• Voice channels
• Roles

Uncheck anything you do not need: the Preview on the right follows live and shows the server as your members will see it. The Check all, Uncheck all and Back to the default selection buttons speed up the selection.

Some items are locked: they come with their section and uncheck along with it.

Every channel states its audience:

Label	Meaning
Open to everyone	Visible even without any role.
Private: Member role only	Reachable once the Member role is granted.
Private: Staff role only	Reserved for the team.
Private: visible to the Unverified role only	Disappears once the captcha is passed.
Read-only	Only Kotbo posts there; members can react with emojis.

Several channels arrive already wired: the highlights channel to Starlight, the announcement channel to auto-thread, the temporary voice channel generator, or the trap channel pinned at the very top of the server, outside any category.

How the Member role is earned

Every channel is closed to @everyone and reopened to the Member role. Two ways to get it:

• On arrival: every newcomer gets the role as soon as they join, through the Welcome module’s auto-role. Nothing to pass, nothing to create.
• After a captcha: newcomers first get an Unverified role and only see the verification channel. The Member role is granted once they type the code back.

Without the Member role

If you uncheck the Member role, every channel is created open to @everyone and there is no access left to grant.

The captcha starts in image mode, and logs to the staff log channel. The voice channel is ready to use: you can switch to voice mode from the Anti-raid page.

Modules turned on

The Modules turned on block ticks the modules to put into service for the whole server:

• Tickets, Levels and XP, Economy and RPG
• AutoMod, on the recommended preset: Kotbo will start moderating messages
• Nickname moderation
• Channel health, analysis only: no channel is created or archived without your say-so

Some modules are turned on automatically because you are creating the matching channel.

Unchecking disables nothing

An unchecked module is left as it is, on or off. The setup never turns off a module already in service.

Running the setup

The Build the server button asks for confirmation, recalling the number of items to create and the list of modules being turned on.

Afterwards, Kotbo reports how many items were created and how many were reused (already present). The ticket panel is posted automatically.

If the operation is interrupted, run it again: nothing will be created twice.

The rules are not published straight away: write your articles on the Server rules page, then publish them to the channel that was created.

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The points left to settle

Below the setup block, the points are grouped in three, each with its own counter:

Group	What it covers
Essentiel	Without these three, the rest works badly or silently: log channel, moderator role, time zone.
Modération	What it takes to run the server and make decisions defensible: rules published, protection enabled, sanction alert channel.
Vie du serveur	What brings members back: working tickets, ticket quotas, welcoming newcomers.

Every line says why the point matters, and shows a manque : … tag while it is unsettled. A click opens the page where it is set.

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Ce que vous n’avez pas encore configuré

If you left tracks aside during the setup journey, they are listed here, with what they would bring and a link to the page that does the same work more thoroughly.

The journey itself does not reopen: replaying the structure setup on a server already built would duplicate channels.