Growth

Growth answers three questions: how many people arrive, where they come from, and whether they stay. Open it from Health in the sidebar. Its cards narrow by role, but not by channel, because joining and leaving happen to the whole server.

How many members you have

• Members is the server's own member count at the end of each period, as Discord reports it. It always counts everyone, whatever roles you filter by.
• Net growth is joins minus leaves in each period. Members who leave and come back are shown separately, so a wave of rejoins does not pass for new growth.
• Boosts counts the server boosts active at the end of each period.

Where new members come from

Join sources splits joins by how people got in: an invite link, the vanity URL, Server Discovery, a bot or an integration. Joins Discord gives no source for count as unknown, and the smallest sources are grouped together. Press View more on the card to see which members' invites brought people in; Leaderboards covers that board.

Joins by hour lays joins out by weekday and hour in your server's time zone, which shows when your server gets discovered.

Whether newcomers settle in

Four cards follow the people who joined in each period, a group called a cohort:

• Newcomer replies: of the joiners who sent a first message, the share who got a reply within a day. A falling line means first messages are going unanswered.
• Activation: the share of joiners who sent a message or joined voice within 7 or 30 days, which you choose in the card's settings. The card can also show whether people started with a message or with voice, and how many days they took.
• Role uptake: the share of joiners who picked up any role within 7 or 30 days, useful if your server hands out roles through onboarding or reaction roles.
• Retention: the share of each period's joiners still in the server after 7 or 30 days. You can split it by join source, to compare how well invite joins and Discovery joins stick, or show it by day since joining.

Because a cohort needs its full window to be measured, these charts stop 7 or 30 days before today. The most recent joiners appear once their window has passed.

Who leaves

• Leavers by segment shows leavers by the segment they were in when they left, so you can tell regulars leaving from newcomers who never settled.
• Tenure at leaving shows how long leavers had been members, either as a median over time or as a spread from under a day to 90 days and more. Many leavers in their first day often points to a raid, a bad invite or an unwelcoming first screen.