Membership Screening Integrations?

[andre4ik3]

TL;DR: When approximately are we getting Membership Screening integrations?

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Hello,

As you all know, Discord has a "Membership Screening" feature which lets you put rules. It also says "coming soon" are short answers, paragraphs, multiple choice, and integrations. The last one is especially important for us developers, as it lets us screen people with our own custom code. AFAIK, these have been "coming soon" for more or less a year. Did Discord just forget about this?

Discord currently has a problem with spam. Hundreds, if not thousands, of "Official Discord HypeSquad Event" and the like accounts join a server and spam every single person with DMs (yes there are other ones but this is the main one and the easiest to detect). They do not say a word in the server. They do not even bother to pass a custom verification gate e.g. reaction roles. They just spam. Membership screening is a very good barrier — it prevents DMs before the user has passed it — but unfortunately it is extremely easy to bypass, just a single checkbox.

Currently we need to have custom bots that analyse people as they join and kick/ban them as soon as possible, otherwise they immediately begin spamming DMs. The amount of bots increases daily, and we need a way to combat this for large servers. They are hard to make and the window to ban them largely depends on how many members there are in the server (AFAIK it downloads full member list).

We need some sort of API for Membership Screening, or at least a date when it will be released. This way we will be able to create custom filters and prevent DM spam before they verify. This takes off the time constraint and makes it much easier. For instance, accounts that are determined to be legitimate are instantly allowed, whilst accounts that are determined to be illegitimate are not allowed (held in server view-only state). If the system is unsure it could pass it onto a feed for a moderator in the server to review (e.g. with 2 message component buttons to accept/deny).

Also can we have some more detail on how the API will work? How will we receive info about the user? How will we able to send back to verify? Can we show a web page in the screening window (e.g. iframe) so we can show info or even a CAPTCHA?

Best regards,
andre4ik3

[Lulalaby]

Tbh it's already working the last time as I saw the full membership screening in action and that was in the first half of 2021 so..
Yeah what happened to it. Seems like discord focus on other things rn.

[joelnedev]

I had thought "Connections" referred to user profile connections (i.e. Spotify, GitHub, Twitter, etc.) as opposed to some sort of API that Discord applications use to integrate.

[Jupith]

or even a CAPTCHA?

They are testing out server captchas atm, on a small amount of servers. Hopefully we see this integrated into member screening.

[andre4ik3]

Sadly it is not customizable. For example it tells you: do the captcha or leave. I would much prefer the server to be in a read-only state. Also it sends no signal to server owners. Not to mention there's no way to trigger it pragmatically. It is a nice addition and I like it but I am concerned that A) it's not customizable and B) it's not toggleable.

[Jupith]

I cant imagine this being the final form of it, they wouldnt force every user to go through a captcha with no ability to disable it.

[IanMitchell]

I'm not sure what the status of this feature is - general Discord client feedback belongs here though: https://dis.gd/feedback. If you want to see this feature ship, I'd highly recommend posting there!

[vyrzdev]

Any news on this?