
Like the IRC chat of old, Discord comes with a set of slash commands that you can use to express yourself or do useful things like search for GIFs or read text aloud. Better yet, you can add bots to your Discord server to get even more functionality out of your server.
Here are the most useful chat commands and bots for Discord.Much like IRC or Slack, Discords servers use slash commands to run tasks or interact with bots. To use a slash command, start by typing / then type the command and press enter. Some commands can take extra arguments like search terms to do some cool stuff. Out of the box, here are some of the useful commands Discord can already use:
- /giphy [search term]: Use this command to find some animated GIFs. The first few results will appear just above your chat box. Click the image you want and press enter to send it to the chat room. If you don’t find the right GIF, you can use /tenor to search a different service and maybe get a different set of results.
- /nick [new nickname]: This command changes your display name at it appears on the server. Enter the nickname you want to replace your old one with and press Enter.
- /tts [message]: Discord is designed to let users hop into voice chat whenever they want, but not everyone has a microphone. This command lets users send a message that will be read aloud to everyone in the channel using text to speech. And yes, this has a huge potential for abuse, so server admins can turn it off.
- /tableflip, /unflip, and /shrug: Some of Discord’s default commands aren’t so much practical as they are fun. The /tableflip command will paste the(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ emoji in the channel. The /unflip command will share ┬─┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ), and /shrug will put ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ in the channel.
These are a few basic helpful commands, but if you’re running your own server or want to have more fun, you can add bots to your server. Bots can join your channel and sit in the user list until you call on them with slash commands. To demonstrate how to use bots, we’ll look at one really powerful bot called Dyno. Dyno is designed to help with server moderation, announcements, reminders, and it can even perform Google searches or find music on YouTube.
First, you’ll need to invite the Dyno bot to your server. To do that, head to this link and click Invite Dyno at the top left corner of the screen.

You’ll need to sign in, if you’re not already signed in through your browser.

Next, you’ll see a screen like the one below. First, pick which server you want to…
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