Birthdays
Never miss a celebration. Members register their birthday once, and Natsumi announces it in your chosen channel, with optional age display, custom messages, and upcoming-birthday lists.
Overview
- Automatic birthday announcements in a channel of your choice
- Custom announcement templates, with or without the member's age
- Privacy first: members can hide their age and birth year
- Upcoming birthdays list so nobody gets missed
For Members
Register your birthday with the Set birthday button on the note at the bottom of the birthday channel. It opens a small form asking for the month and day. Leave the birth year empty if you'd rather not share it, or fill it in to include your age in announcements. There is no command for this: the button is the only way to set your own birthday.
You register your birthday once. Once it is set, the Set birthday button tells you the date you already have instead of opening the form. To change it, press Remove on the same note first, then Set birthday again.
Prefer to keep your age private but still share the year? Toggle it with /birthday hide-age. You can remove your birthday entirely with the Remove button on the same note, or with /birthday forget.
For Admins
Configure the birthday system from the dashboard's Birthdays page: choose the announcement channel and customize the announcement message templates (one with age, one without).
Each announcement pings the birthday member and posts a card underneath with the greeting, a gift icon, and the time. Natsumi adds the first party-popper reaction so members can join in.
You can also choose a birthday ping role. It is mentioned at the top of every announcement, and members give themselves the role, or drop it again, with the Notifications button on the channel's sticky note. The role must be mentionable unless Natsumi has the Mention Everyone permission, and it must sit below Natsumi's own role so it can be handed out.
Admins can also manage birthdays on behalf of members with /birthday set-user and /birthday unset-user.
Only people who are still in the server are announced. When a member leaves, their birthday is removed along with the rest of their data for that server, and Natsumi double-checks membership right before every announcement, so someone who left while the bot was offline is skipped as well. If they come back, they simply set their birthday again.
Example Announcement Template
Today is a special day!
Please wish {user} a Happy Birthday, they turn **{age}** today!Channel Sticky & Announcements
Two extras keep the birthday channel useful between celebrations, both configured on the dashboard's Birthdays page.
Channel sticky note. Natsumi keeps a short note at the bottom of the birthday channel with a Set birthday button inside it. It is the only way for members to register their own birthday, so nobody has to know a command or date format. Pressing it opens a small form asking for the month, day, and optionally the birth year. While a birthday ping role is set, a Notifications button toggles that role for whoever presses it. A Remove button asks members to confirm, then deletes their birthday. The note is re-posted after every message so it is always the very last thing in the channel, and the old copy is removed so only one note exists at a time. It is always present whenever birthdays are enabled and a birthday channel is set. The only thing you can change is the wording; since there is no command for setting a birthday, keep it pointing members at the button. Without a birthday channel there is no note, so members cannot set a birthday until you pick one.
New birthday announcements. When a member registers a birthday, Natsumi posts a single line in the birthday channel with the date and a countdown, so everyone can see when it is coming up. The countdown is a live Discord timestamp, so it keeps counting down on its own, and the member is named without being pinged. It never includes an age or birth year, only the day itself.
Message Variables
| Variable | Replaced With |
|---|---|
{user} | Mentions the birthday member |
{age} | The member's new age (only in the with-age template) |
All Birthday Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
/birthday view | View your birthday or another member's |
/birthday next | List up to 10 upcoming birthdays in the server |
/birthday forget | Remove your birthday from this server |
/birthday hide-age | Toggle hiding your age and birth year |
/birthday set-user | Admin: set another member's birthday |
/birthday unset-user | Admin: remove another member's birthday |