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ggbro Features
Everything ggbro can do — from everyday chat to voice, bots, GGBRO Plus, and full server backups — written like a field guide for members, owners, and developers.
ggbro is an all-in-one community platform: text and rich media chat, voice and video calls, screen sharing, customizable servers, friends and DMs, discovery, GGBRO Plus perks, a Solana token ecosystem, and a first-class bot API. This page is the long-form map of those capabilities and the stack that powers them.
Servers & channels
Own your community space
Create unlimited servers with icons, banners, descriptions, invite links, and optional vanity URLs for verified communities. Organize with categories, text channels, and voice channels (including meeting-style channels).
- Server banner in the channel sidebar — set and position it in Server Settings → Overview.
- Server menu — click the server name to invite, open settings, create channels, mute, copy invite/ID, report, or leave.
- Templates — save or apply structure (roles, channels, categories) and share template links.
- Invites — create, expire, limit uses; invite people straight into a voice channel when needed.
Chat & media
- Realtime text chat with replies, edits, deletes, pins, reactions, and embeds.
- File uploads, images, GIFs, link previews, and search across channels.
- Voice channels with Text Chat — when enabled, a chat icon opens that channel’s message pane without leaving (or before joining) voice.
- Slowmode, NSFW flags, topics, and channel / category permission overrides.
Voice, video & screen share
- Low-latency voice with mute, deafen, camera, and screen sharing.
- Server mute / deafen / move / disconnect for moderators with the right permissions.
- Soundboard (GGBRO Plus), live participant list, and speaking indicators.
- DM and group voice calls alongside server voice.
Presence & activity
- Statuses: Online, Away, Do Not Disturb, Invisible — with automatic Away after idle (manual Away/DND/Invisible are respected).
- Desktop Activity — the Windows app can detect running games/apps and show “Playing …” on your profile.
- Activity clears when you go offline and only returns when something is actually detected again — no stale all-day games.
- Custom activity icons managed from the admin panel for a polished look.
Friends, DMs & groups
- Friend requests, block list, Active Now, and Notification Center.
- Direct messages and group DMs with the same media features as server chat.
- Profile popups with banners, bios, member-since, and live activity.
Roles, permissions & moderation
- Fine-grained role permissions, hoisting, colors, and per-channel / per-category overrides.
- Kick, ban, timeout, audit log, reports, and invite controls.
- Two-factor authentication available for sensitive owner actions (delete server, restore backup, etc.).
Backups & templates
Full server backups
Owners can enable Backup Server and run Backup Now. Snapshots store channels, roles, permissions, current members’ roles, messages, reactions, pins, and files up to 10MB. Larger files are skipped with skip notes. Save and restore are paced so the host stays healthy.
- Free servers: 1 backup · backup & restore once a week.
- Verified servers: up to 3 backups · backup & restore once a day.
- Delete an old backup to free a slot. Live restore does not re-add people who left or were banned.
- Deleting a server soft-deletes it for 30 days with a pre-delete snapshot you can restore from User Settings → Servers.
GGBRO Plus, discovery & verified
- GGBRO Plus: verified user badge · 500 MB uploads (DMs, groups, any server) · up to 5 Discovery listings · game & general ads · featured placement · listing banners · cross-server soundboard · cross-server custom emojis.
- Server Discovery — browse and feature communities with banners and categories.
- Verified servers: golden badge & invite pages · vanity invite URL · 500 MB uploads in that server · 3 backups · daily backup/restore · daily automatic backup schedule.
- GGBRO Token — Solana token ecosystem with its own public pages and analytics.
Bots & developer API
- Create apps in the Developer Portal — get a bot user and token.
- REST API for messages, members, roles, bans, invites, presence, and more.
- Channel webhooks — Discord-style incoming URLs to post into a channel (multiple per channel); manage in Edit Channel, Portal → Webhooks, or the API.
- Socket.IO gateway for realtime events, slash commands, and interactions.
- Python helper SDK (
ggbro.py) plus sample music and welcome bots. - Voice text-chat rules apply to bots too: if a voice channel has chat disabled, bots cannot post there.
Desktop, web & mobile
- Windows desktop — Electron app with auto-update, Activity detection, and system tray-friendly controls.
- Web app — same experience in the browser at
/app. - Android — native client sharing the same backend.
Technology stack
ggbro is built as a modern realtime communication stack. Here is what powers the product end to end:
/apiYou will also find this stack summary in the desktop app under User Settings → About, right after Platform.
Privacy & principles
- No ads and no third-party tracking pixels on the product experience.
- Permission checks happen on the server for every sensitive action — UI alone is never enough.
- Backup archives are private (not publicly downloadable via
/uploads).