2025 Guide to Growing Your Discord Server

Top 5 Most Effective Ways to Get Discord Members in 2025!

Discord is a great platform for connecting with friends online, and is used by gamers and content creators to connect with their communities. Whether your looking to grow your following, start a business venture, or just engage with your community, Discord is a powerful tool.

These steps are in order from MOST to LESS effective.

1. Promote your Discord server.

Promoting your server is one of the best ways to grow your discord server in 2025. You can use sites like discadia.com or disboard.org, which allow users to click your invite link. These sites also let you bump your server every day to ensure everyone gets a fair chance of being seen.

Top Server Advertising Sites:

Discadia.com - Most Recommended

Disboard.org

Discordservers.com

Discord.me

2. Participate in other servers

If you arn't doing this already, you should be. This method is one of the best ways to get people to join your server, ESPECIALLY if you are in 50+ servers. The more the better.

IMPORTANT TIP: Set your user name to a single exclamation mark (!), this immediately moves you to the top of the members list on ever server, making you visible to thousands of people.

3. Host Giveaways

Notice how people join your server and immediately leave? Hate to break it to you, but your server is boring. A great way to increase member retention is by giving them something to join, like a giveaway!

How to create the perfect giveaway:

Step 1. Download Invite-Tracker.com

Step 2. Add the bot to your server, and give it "send messages" and "use commands" permissions.

Step 3. Type "/giveaway create" and select your prize and timelimit.

We know your greedy and don't like to give things away, and so are we! However this is a VERY good suggestion for keeping members in your server long term.

4. Have a Nice Server Design

Having a clean simple server template is a key factor when it comes to your server's growth. People don't like a cluttered, emoji filled server. Keep it simple and make your main channels stick out.

You can find some really cool templates online. Discordtemplates.me is a great place to find any template you want! (roles included)

5. Moderate/Monitize your server

Remember, Not a ton of effort has to be put into this. Just make sure everything is running how YOU want it to run. There's a few things you need to set up though.

Monetization ESSENTIALS:

Use Discord Automod - Right click your server Icon > Click Server Settings > Under Moderation, Click Safety Setup > Select Automod.

Spam Protection - Set your public chat message timeout from 2 - 10 seconds between each message.

Raid Protection - In the same area you set up Automod, click Raid Protection and turn on Activity Alerts. The other 2 options should be on by default.