recap counts the week: how much was said, how long anybody sat in voice, what moderation did, which giveaways finished, and who arrived.

setting it up

anybody can ask for a recap. setting it up posts the drawn recap in a channel once a week, on monday unless you pick another day, from 17:00 utc.
open the dashboard, pick your server and go to rewind & recap. under weekly recap, pick the channel it’s posted in and the day under every, and save. it’s the same setting ,recap auto changes.
  • a quiet week, with nothing to draw, isn’t posted
  • if drain was offline at the hour, it posts when it’s back that same day. a whole day offline skips that week rather than posting on the wrong day
  • drain needs to see the channel, send messages, embed links and attach files there

where the numbers come from

nothing is recorded to make a recap possible. every line is read from something drain already keeps for another feature:
  • talking: the daily message counts behind ,messages leaderboard
  • voice: the sessions behind voice time rewards
  • moderation: the numbered cases behind the mod log
  • giveaways: the giveaways the giveaway feature ran
  • arrivals: discord’s own join dates, read live
so turning message counting off removes the talking section, and never touching a case means there is no moderation section. a part drain cannot see is left off rather than shown as zero: “nobody spoke” and “drain could not tell” are not the same answer.
voice counts every second anybody was in a channel, including sessions still running. that is a larger number than the one voice time pays rewards on, which ignores people sitting alone and muted.

what it does not show

no per-person message ranking beyond the top three, no targets of moderation cases, and nothing at all from a channel drain cannot read. a recap is about the room, not about anybody in it.

ways to type it

every command

the daily rewind shares this group: it’s on its own page.