🗂️ Autodelete a whole Category
Category Setup lets one configuration govern every channel inside a category — optionally including their threads and forum posts. Instead of maintaining dozens of channel configs, you manage a single shared one.
✨ Premium: Category configs are currently a Premium feature while this rollout is being scaled up carefully.
Creating a category config
- Run
/category-setupanywhere in your server and pick the category from the list- You do not need to be inside the category — the picker lists all categories of the server
- The bot first shows you how many channels the category contains, so you can confirm you picked the right one
- Click “Create Config” and configure it like a normal channel config (modes, limit, filters, roles…)
- As always, changes become active about one minute after your last edit
Everything in a single category config then applies to the category’s channels, both existing ones and channels added later.
What gets covered and when
| Target | Covered by default? | How to enable |
|---|---|---|
| Text/announcement/voice channels in the category | ✅ Yes | automatic |
| Channels created after the config exists | ✅ Yes | automatic |
| Channels moved into the category | ✅ Yes | automatic (incl. loading their existing messages if you chose so) |
| Channels moved out of the category | ✅ Stops automatically | — |
| Threads inside those channels | ❌ No | enable Include Threads in the category menu |
| Posts of a forum inside the category | ❌ No | enable Include Threads in the category menu (posts are threads) |
Include Threads on a category
On a category, Include Threads means: “the category’s config also governs all threads/posts inside the category’s channels” (a category has no threads of its own). Enabling it follows the same rules as on channels - Premium is required to turn it on, never to turn it off.
You’ll be offered a backfill prompt to also catch up existing threads’ messages; the bot additionally searches all channels of the category via the Discord API (including archived thread listings, where your permissions allow).
Combine with channel configs
A channel inside a managed category can still have its own channel config(s) (/setup inside the channel). In that case both apply at once — the category config and the channel config. Running /setup in such a channel shows a hint if it is governed by a category config.
This makes category configs perfect as a baseline (“delete everything after 24h”) plus channel exceptions ("…but keep #announcements for a week").
About the /setup vs /category-setup distinction
/category-setup myCategorymanages the shared category config/setupinside a channel manages that channel’s own configs/listshows all configs of the server
If a channel shows “no configs” in /setup but /list shows one, check the banner: it’s probably governed by its category.
Deleting old messages
When creating or editing a category config, choose “Yes” on the “delete old messages” prompt and the bot will backfill every channel of the category (plus their threads if Include Threads is on) — not just new messages going forward.
ℹ️ Info: As with all configs, Discord only lets bots delete messages that are at most 14 days old.
Stopping / deleting
Deleting the config in /category-setup stops everything it governed (all channels, and their threads when included) immediately.
/stop inside an individual channel only affects that channel’s own configs — it does not disable the shared category config.
Notices
/autodelete-notice inside a channel also shows inherited rules — configs coming from its category (or parent channel) are marked with their origin, so members understand why messages vanish.
Permissions & Limits
- The bot needs Manage Threads to cover the categories’ threads (asked for when enabling Include Threads)
- A category config counts as one config against your limit
- Existing channels keep working independently; per-channel configs stack additively (they don’t get replaced)
Common issues
“It deletes in one channel but not the other” → Give it a moment after saving (one-minute activation buffer). Channels created just before saving are normally picked up automatically; if one wasn’t, re-saving the config re-applies it.
“Forum posts aren’t deleted” → Enable Include Threads on the category config (post coverage lives there, and requires Premium).
“The toggle says Threads is Premium” → Thread/post cascade needs Premium on this bot. The base category cascade (the channels themselves) is also Premium-gated during rollout.
See also: Include Threads · Forum Setup · Troubleshooting