auctions-general

[waxen pine]

Does there happen to be any coupon codes available at the moment? Just asking in case there is, its okay if not

[fallow lodge]

yep

[warm thunder]

i thought it'd have like an api and the actual site with react or something similar

[warm thunder]

damnn lmao

that is not easy

[fallow lodge]

the main site is next.js and chakra

[warm thunder]

chakra ui is really nice tbh

[fallow lodge]

agreed

[warm thunder]

im horrible at coding with react though lmao

[warm thunder]

im much better at doing backend

[warm thunder]

thats a pretty good stack for the main site

seems much easier than uhhh express + ejs lmao

[fallow lodge]

agreed

i have hope for the auctions rewrite 🙏

[brittle carbon]

The main site is pretty nice to work on. It's the first time I've used next and it's pretty awesome.

[fallow lodge]

yeah i use next and tailwind

or chakra if im lazy

i bought tailwind ui and its an amazing investment

[warm thunder]

im planning to use it on my bot's website if all goes well, even bought the domain (tildebot.com)

[warm thunder]

do you work more at medal than top.gg?

ive used medal in the past its pretty good for game replays etc

[brittle carbon]

Yeah I'm a full-time Medal employee. I only hop in here to help out for Auctions support.

[warm thunder]

thats nice, also do you know of any way to change your email in top.gg auctions? im not looking to change it now but in the future ill want to change it as im using a new email

[brittle carbon]

-ticket

[lean whale]

@warm thunder

Need more advanced support?
Open a support ticket

[brittle carbon]

Open a ticket there. I'm not sure

[warm thunder]

okay so you guys will have to change it for me? alright

its fine i dont need to change it right now

[brittle carbon]

It should just be your Discord account's email

[warm thunder]

yes it is, it doesnt detect if the email is changed though right?

because it could be easier to just change my discord email

[brittle carbon]

I'm not sure. It should just link your Discord ID to your new email.

[warm thunder]

ok, I'll try that, thanks

[brittle carbon]

No problem!

[earnest slate]

Remember to use CREDITS10 during checkout!

[warm thunder]

@waxen pine (you asked for a coupon before)

[waxen pine]

Sadly too late now :(

[warm thunder]

keep in mind for next time you advertise then I think it'll still work

[waxen pine]

Im not gonna be able to advertise very often as I dont get any income from the server yet.
But maybe in the future

[brittle carbon]

That code was only available for the payment window this week

[warm thunder]

ah ok lol

[split dirge]

2 weeks in a row no ads due to being outbid when not paying attention near end of bidding time
extremely aggressive people against non-aggressive bidders

[jolly blaze]

We should convert it to a silent auction fr

[brittle carbon]

I mean, it's an auction. People gonna bid

[warm thunder]

you just have to be active towards the end lol

and determined to get those spots

[warm thunder]

guys the ads for my bot just started and many servers were added but that wasnt supposed to happen - i forgot to deactivate public bot, I started ads to get people in the support server lmao, the bot isnt done

[candid lily]

Then

Why did you promote it in auctions

????

[warm thunder]

oh i just wanted support server members

i thought maybe like i'd get 2-3 servers added but it was quite a bit more and im going to be using a caching system for the bot so that will complicate it a little bit but generally should be fine

but i literally thought i turned public bot off

[neat valley]

but like

why would you promote a bot

more than likely thats what people are gonna pay attention to

[warm thunder]

lol

at least i got hella CTR

(antispam)

[limpid cosmos]

You can just promote the support server in that case.

[split dirge]

The auction website was acting weird for a few minutes but seams to be fixed

[warm bison]

@brittle carbon allowing users to place bids lower than the lowest will help accumulate all the extra impressions

[warm thunder]

they wont earn enough money though 🤑

[warm bison]

there are 100k impressions available but only like 20k are filled

by allowing placing lower will help topgg earn more too...

80k impressions worth

[warm thunder]

you know most people bid on last day though

probably many more impressions going to be taken

[warm bison]

yeah but

just a thought

[warm thunder]

no problem

also

what slot is this?

[warm bison]

music

slot 1

[warm thunder]

ah ok

you're right its a very high minimum bid ngl

[warm bison]

yeah

5$ for 1k impressions is insane

7k impressions used to fetch me 1k servers

so i'd have to pay 35$ for 1k servers

its unideal... hence the suggestion

[ancient pumice]

which time ends bidding

[split dirge]

Normal bidding ends Monday 19:00 (7:00pm) UTC. To prevent snipping (bidding at the last second to get a slot) bidding can be extended for up to 2 hours.

To determine when that is in your time zone

1. use your preferred search engine to look for current UTC time.
2. use what ever method you typically use to check current local time. From this calculate the offset.
3. apply the offset to the auction end time.

Be careful of wrong way offset (adding vs subtracting hour)

If all that is too complicated, an alternative is to go to the bidding page and check the time remaining counter

[brittle carbon]

You can just Google "7pm UTC in (your country / city)" and Google will convert it for you instead of looking up UTC and trying to convert it yourself.

[warm thunder]

for me bidding ends at 10 pm which is pretty good

[clear vigil]

this guy winning the bid, only is buying 1000 impressions.. what happens after those 1000 are gained? it switches to next person who's winning bid?

i swear i clicked support

[brittle carbon]

Correct

Everyone with an impression count on the leaderboard has won impressions

They're served from top to bottom

[clear vigil]

how're they ordered?
just by who puts it in first?

[brittle carbon]

-cpm

[lean whale]

What is CPM bidding?
Top.gg Support Article

[clear vigil]

oh ok, i was thinking it was with their max budget, but it's just purely cpm. interesting. ty

[brittle carbon]

It's ordered in order of CPM bid and then oldest to newest in the case where CPM bids are the same across multiple products.

[fallow lodge]

nahhh i missed it

😠

[muted ocean]

what's with people desperately trying to own both slots of the same tag and going upwards to CPM of 10+ to achieve it

[warm thunder]

🤑

[muted ocean]

I guess, but probably unlike them I have a strict budget 😄

[warm thunder]

btw what bot do you have

[muted ocean]

it's mentioned in my about me, idk if I can mention it here

[warm thunder]

im bidding on slots even though my bot isn't even like released

like you cant add it to your server

as of now i just want to get like members in the support server

so i can get like a small amount of ppl

[muted ocean]

I see, have you tried bidding with the server itself as well?

[warm thunder]

no just the bot

[muted ocean]

although yeah support servers are unlikely to get decent traffic by themselves

how is it going btw?

[warm thunder]

fine we got like 50 members last week

and around 400 clicks in auctions

got the same slots this time

[muted ocean]

that's pretty good

[warm thunder]

either way i actually got some stuff done

maybe my bot is ready to release this week?

you should check it out its in my bio

even have a website for it

problem is that the bot is really really advanced to develop so it's been taking a while for me

[muted ocean]

I'm one step ahead 😄

already on the site

[warm thunder]

oh im also on top.gg

i mean the bot

it works its just that I need to complete the caching system

for the users

its wayy to advanced 💀

[muted ocean]

well according to your member traffic I think you're on the right track

[warm thunder]

thanks man btw i got like ~150 invite uses, but most left as they were trying to find the invite

interesting how it works

[muted ocean]

my server's disadvantage is that its primary language is not English, so most people probably get scared and run away xd

[warm thunder]

lol its like that here

btw

which slots do you advertise on

[brittle carbon]

Fun tag got hot this week 🥵 🌶️

Good thing I got it for cheap last week and had leftover budget

[muted ocean]

mostly Currency 1/2, then between minigames, card game, application (meh CTR tho), funny, free, anything that relates at least a little bit and is not full of high CPMs

[warm thunder]

true

[jolly blaze]

do staff members get auctions discounts lol

[warm thunder]

damn nice so you bid on all these each week?

[brittle carbon]

No

[flat fractal]

Auctions were brutal!

[warm thunder]

true lol just had to pay more and more but eh its fine

[jolly blaze]

oh fun tag slot 2 is still going

[muted ocean]

nah, too little money to do that 😄 however I always go for Currency at the very least

[warm thunder]

how much does currency cost usually?

[jolly blaze]

Had a slot ever gone on for the full 2 hour extension?

[warm thunder]

isnt it 30 min

[flat fractal]

Its always anxiety inducing... its what i live for

[muted ocean]

depends, its avg cost increased with top.gg partnerships (I guess), but the final CPM moves anywhere between ~2 and 15, mostly around 5

[warm thunder]

thats not too bad

[muted ocean]

sometimes it cost me 60 cents, sometimes 4 dollars

[warm thunder]

haha exactly

[warm thunder]

oh i thought it was 30 mintues lmao

[warm thunder]

last week i paid 6$ for ads

this week i paid 20 for same slots

it changes a lot lol

[muted ocean]

Currency began receiving less impressions a few weeks ago, idk what'đ behind that

[warm thunder]

i mean you should get a refund for impressions you didnt get so not bad

CTR on these slots is so high

[brittle carbon]

So did I lmao

[warm thunder]

i think i saw it was 30 minutes at some point in #auctions-status

[muted ocean]

yeah that's impressive

[warm thunder]

conversion rate is also really high

[muted ocean]

its base impressions decreased, so no refunds

[warm thunder]

ahh thats what you meant ok

[muted ocean]

I probably need to redo my ad or sth because my CTR is good, but conversion rate sucks a bit

no fancy images on my site yet xd

[warm thunder]

make a website 🤑 conversion rate is higher imo (basically 100%)

[warm thunder]

did you see my bot's site tho

[muted ocean]

yeah, good stuff

[warm thunder]

needed to add that huge warning too

[muted ocean]

do you advertise the bot as a custom product?

[warm thunder]

"cant add the bot"

as people were complaining

[warm thunder]

wdym?

[muted ocean]

the 1st one is custom, as it redirects to a website

[warm thunder]

ahhh

no its just the bot page

but once you click on invite it takes you to the website (is what im planning)

[muted ocean]

ah I see

[warm thunder]

anywya i really have to release this bot lmao

[muted ocean]

well a website would be nice but I'd have to learn to do that

[warm thunder]

i be paying for ads but not using them

[warm thunder]

yeah its not easy ngl

but i used wordpress

have lots of experience withi t

also look at this conversion rate, damn that's high (~80%)

[muted ocean]

I heard of it, I might check it out since building a site from scratch is not usual these days

[brittle carbon]

Don't trust the analytics tab on your bot's page. The stats are usually very off.

[warm thunder]

lol yes its super hard to do it from scratch

[warm thunder]

oh why

[brittle carbon]

They're buggy

[warm thunder]

interesting

is it that the tracking system isnt very accurate or

[muted ocean]

well mine say this, it's stats from last week right only right? I have 71 votes atm

[brittle carbon]

Best way to count conversions is in terms of actual invites to servers using the redirect_uri on your bot's oauth link or in terms of member joins for a server

[warm thunder]

yeah i think its last week

[warm thunder]

on my site I actually have conversion tracking set up with Matomo

so I track when the user converts and goes to add the bot

[muted ocean]

I reckon how it could say 47 invites if my servers literally have not moved for the past few days xd

[warm thunder]

but the redirect_uri, doesn't it add a ?code to the urL?

[brittle carbon]

yep

[warm thunder]

weird lol

[warm thunder]

could be a good idea to actually implement that

to see how many % of people who click add to server

actually add it at the end

matomo is really good for this have you heard of it

[brittle carbon]

Yeah I do it just so I can track where my server joins are coming from with a ?ref=topgg on Top.gg's bot invite link for example

[warm thunder]

i also have a "campaign" for top-gg so i can track if they're coming from top gg

[brittle carbon]

And it counts actual conversions (bot added to a server) instead of just people clicking "invite" and not following through

[warm thunder]

so you do like

the user clicks on the direct invite link on top.gg

and then they get returned to your website with the ref=top.gg?

[brittle carbon]

Look at my bot's invite link on Top.gg and you'll see what I do

[warm thunder]

"https://pixx.ie/support?ref=invite"

[brittle carbon]

I track those in Google Analytics then

[warm thunder]

thats pretty smart

[warm thunder]

personally I think google analytics is better for sites with lots and lots of users

with Matomo you have visitor profiles

so each visitor has their own profile and you can see what they do

it's prtty cool to see

[brittle carbon]

That's like an Amplitude thing?

[warm thunder]

i think they also have that but im using matomo

its like google analytics but open source

and much better imo

and self hosted

but they also have cloud ofc

[brittle carbon]

I see

I've always used GA I don't think I'll ever switch

[warm thunder]

it's really simple and easy to use lmao

thats why most sites use it

[brittle carbon]

10 years is an old habit to break too

[warm thunder]

damn so you've been with google analytics from the start

i think they've existed since 2005

so you've used it for like a good half of the entire time its existed

[brittle carbon]

I'm probably going to use Posthog for in-app stats when I do my rewrite.

[warm thunder]

also, your bot, what does it do?

[jolly blaze]

That feels gdpr violating

[lean scroll]

Is there a way to bid after the auction has ended? Iirc there was an announcement recently related to that

[brittle carbon]

Games and boosts social interaction

[warm thunder]

so just a fun bot? thats pretty cool

[brittle carbon]

-secondround

[warm thunder]

well

technically it would be

but i anonymize user Ips

[lean scroll]

[jolly blaze]

Why are you even storing ips in the first place

[warm thunder]

so it is actually completely legal

[warm thunder]

ask the creator of matomo i didnt make it lmao

[brittle carbon]

-aticket

[lean whale]

@lean scroll

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[brittle carbon]

Every website you visit has your IP

[warm thunder]

also, its for geolocation

[warm thunder]

yeah exactly

[brittle carbon]

It doesn't mean anything

People make a big deal out of it

[jolly blaze]

Yes, but having it for analytics is kinda useless

[warm thunder]

it only means something to malicious websites

[warm thunder]

not at all

its used for geolocation

[jolly blaze]

Yes, store the geolocation, not the ip

[brittle carbon]

It's useful for analytics

[warm thunder]

it also helps identify the specific user

either way, what is so bad about storing ips?

[jolly blaze]

In case of data leak

[brittle carbon]

It doesn't necessarily. You can have more than one user on the same machine.

[warm thunder]

what can a website do with your ip? take your internet dwn for a couple minteus? thats like the extent

[warm thunder]

technically but mostly that only happens if your app is really popular or typically used in the same household

like for google thats an issue

but for my discord bot

most people in the same household wont be searching for the same bot

[brittle carbon]

It could be if you wanted to prevent botting something etc

But would only work on your website anyway

[jolly blaze]

Yeah for security I get

[brittle carbon]

Identifying malicious users etc

[warm thunder]

for discord its an actual issue because bans are IP based so if someone on your ip does something in a serevr and gets banned then you'll also be if you "ever" use the same ip

[warm thunder]

btw what is so bad about storing ips, why is it so bad?

[jolly blaze]

The IP bans on Discord are only temporary

[warm thunder]

afaik they are permanent

[jolly blaze]

I'm not saying it's necessarily bad, but why have it

[warm thunder]

true its a little but much but if you can collect it why not? it doesnt harm your users honestly

[jolly blaze]

Most household ips are dynamic so permanent ip bans would sometimes lead to a random person with the same isp

[warm thunder]

yeah thats why i dont think discord bans by ip are very smart lmao

[jolly blaze]

It's more to prevent raids that happen on the same network

[brittle carbon]

If you're worried about people storing your IP, just use a VPN. It's still a waste of money if that's the only reason imo, unless you're actually at risk professionally etc, but anyway.

[warm thunder]

yeah

[warm thunder]

that is a prtty smart use case

but it does harm regular users

[jolly blaze]

Well, if they're temporary like up to a week at most, which is what I think it is, then the chances of another person joining the same server is low

Also I don't think it affects already joined users (although i could be wrong on this)

[warm thunder]

i think thats true

problem is that i think theyre literally permanent

[jolly blaze]

Well who knows

[brittle carbon]

Yeah I believe so

[warm thunder]

yeah discord will most likely keep that private as its their security information

[jolly blaze]

I mean it's not that hard to figure out

[warm thunder]

i literally have to get this bot running by tomorrow if I actually want to get some servers - but this cache system is always having issues

[warm thunder]

it could change (the duration)

[jolly blaze]

Yeah

[warm thunder]

basically the cache system works completely but im making a redundancy system

if discord API fails

[brittle carbon]

Why? In what situation would that happen?

[warm thunder]

well if the discord api goes down

the cache would be invalid

[brittle carbon]

Are you using slash commands?

[warm thunder]

yes

but this cache system isnt based on slash commands

[brittle carbon]

Then if the API was down people wouldn't be able to interact with your bot in the first place

[warm thunder]

it caches every user the bot has seen and their respective joined servers that include tildebot

this bot is a alternative "report system" for discord

where people can report disruptive members

[jolly blaze]

My bot's pretty similar lol

[warm thunder]

and they go through our moderation system and then either get blocked from the tildebot "network"

[warm thunder]

what bot do you have?

[jolly blaze]

Although it doesnt have global bans

About me 2nd link

[warm thunder]

global bans are a real pain to code

[warm thunder]

so it reports to the server admins? smart

[jolly blaze]

I might implement an opt-in global "alert" feature but that's honestly just an idea

[warm thunder]

i see your bot is open source? thats really cool

[brittle carbon]

I'm gonna join my 90,000th server this week

[jolly blaze]

Imo I don't like global bans because the only real rule servers share is don't break discord tos, and just report them to discord at that point

[warm thunder]

your bot?

[brittle carbon]

yep

[warm thunder]

damnnn

thats hella servers

[brittle carbon]

Gonna hit 100k in October

[warm thunder]

thats a huge bot lol

[brittle carbon]

It's a medium size one lol

Not huge

[jolly blaze]

Huge bots are like mee6 dyno dank memer those ones

[brittle carbon]

Huge is like 1 mill+

[warm thunder]

whats your bot coded in? also i gotta know, how many resources does it use, like gb ram and stuff?

[brittle carbon]

PHP

jk

[warm thunder]

lmao

[brittle carbon]

JS but I'm rewriting to TS. The website is PHP though.

[warm thunder]

discord.js right?

[brittle carbon]

discord.js-light

@sick crown's lib

[warm thunder]

oh what's the difference?

[brittle carbon]

It's Tim's

So it's better

Better caching

[warm thunder]

makes sense

[brittle carbon]

djs cache is awful

[warm thunder]

how many resources does your bot use

i have to know lol

like GB ram and cpu usage

[brittle carbon]

About 17GB RAM

[jolly blaze]

How does it work exactly? I find discord.js' cache customisation (sweepers + limiting) enough

[brittle carbon]

It has some pretty cool mods. You should check out the github for it and you'll see.

[warm thunder]

thats much less than I thought

[brittle carbon]

I've done a lot of optimisation. There's more I can do but I need a rewrite.

[warm thunder]

@jolly blaze ive actually seen your bot before in servers, how many servers does it have?

[warm thunder]

im coding my bot as efficiently as possible

[jolly blaze]

36

It has 15k total members in those servers

[warm thunder]

almost too efficiently as you can see with the redundancy thing for the cache

[warm thunder]

ive actually seen it before i think

[brittle carbon]

CPU isn't the issue really in my experience. Mostly RAM.

[warm thunder]

thankfully i have a very nice dedicated server from hetzner

so there shouldnt be a problem there i think

[brittle carbon]

That's nice. I want to switch to one too.

[warm thunder]

the prices are really good

[brittle carbon]

Yeah

[warm thunder]

its like 40$ a month for a 64 gig server

i dont understand how they even do it

[brittle carbon]

I pay €25/mo for a shared VPS with 32GB RAM

So I don't need to upgrade to a dedi yet

[warm thunder]

those prices are still really good

[brittle carbon]

But I'd like to

[warm thunder]

did you know oracle offers a 24 gig ram server for free?

like "absolutely" fre

im not sure if its still free but i used to have one

[jolly blaze]

I don't have a lot of servers so caching isn't a big deal for me, I find this just enough https://github.com/GodderE2D/Reindeer/blob/main/src/constants/makeCache.ts

[brittle carbon]

I've heard that before

But it's Oracle

[jolly blaze]

It's the best forever free vps option imo

Emphasis on free

[warm thunder]

so you set all those to 0 as you dont use them?

[jolly blaze]

I would not use oracle cloud if I was paying

[jolly blaze]

Yep

[warm thunder]

do you guys think my bot will have problems once it gets released and it reaches the 100 server limit

like wit verification

as it'd grow really fast

apparently theres some limit thing in verification that make you wait 2 weeks if it grows too fast

[brittle carbon]

I'd suggest not advertising it on Top.gg until you're verified or it will make your verification process longer and harder

[jolly blaze]

I'd say if it grew linearly within the span of 1.5 or more months you'll be fine

[warm thunder]

well oops then lmao

[brittle carbon]

Yeah unnatural growth

[warm thunder]

it has 0 servers now

[jolly blaze]

Well you'll see

[warm thunder]

so it'd grow within 5 days probably (to 100 servers)

as from my statistics

of like 500 clicks

[jolly blaze]

Are you the one with the unfinished bot and your bot page is basically an ad for your support server

[warm thunder]

👍

exactly sir

at least i got 50 members lmao

[jolly blaze]

Hm idk about your case

[warm thunder]

i think it will probably have some issues

and im pretty interested to see how my bot will handle the new servers

it caches a lot of things

i seriously dont understand why im even advertising when my bot isnt ready 💀

[brittle carbon]

It's always best to roll big changes out slowly anyway. When I release major new feautres or do rewrites I don't just test it on my own and then YOLO it out to 90k servers

[warm thunder]

jesus christ lmao

i test everything before I do anything

[brittle carbon]

I have a beta bot that I launch to users before pushing to the prod version

[warm thunder]

that makes better sense

[brittle carbon]

So beta testers can test it

[warm thunder]

you bot is really big imo

so it can have that

[fallow lodge]

i do the same on a bot in 3 servers

[warm thunder]

👏

[brittle carbon]

Depends how many members it works for tho

[fallow lodge]

oh 650k+

but still, i beta test using a seperate bot

[brittle carbon]

If it's 3 large servers and it's a major part of their security then it makes sense

[warm thunder]

(i knew there was gonna be a little bit of a small troll)

just a small troll

[junior moon]

Does front page slot next to top page slot?

I bid both and realize that is 100 USD wasted if they are next to each other

[autumn phoenix]

I get outbid at 12:50 am , bruh I can't even bid cuz it's late night here when bid ends

[fleet patrol]

so im first bidding for my ad to be shown, then im bidding on the cpm as well?

[brittle carbon]

-cpm

[lean whale]

@fleet patrol

What is CPM bidding?
Top.gg Support Article

[brittle carbon]

Read that support article

[fleet patrol]

ya that explains the cpm, but so i could either choose tho bid for both category and cpm, or just category?

[brittle carbon]

Each tag/slot is its own CPM bidding

You can bid on as many slots as you want but you'll be expected to pay for all the ones you win

[fleet patrol]

so paying for cpm is implied always

[brittle carbon]

The entire auctions system is a CPM bidding system yes. I'm not sure what you mean?

[fleet patrol]

thought you could just pay per category, regardless of clicks

[brittle carbon]

You do. We don't charge for clicks, we charge for impressions. It's a CPM bidding system.

[fleet patrol]

right so I mean I have for example the 15$ free credits, I can just dump 10 (counting for extra vat I read), then then cpm count is automatic and my ads are shown until the impression count reaches 10$

[brittle carbon]

Read this: #auctions-support message
Also there's no VAT when paying with credits.

[trail pine]

$6 for 480 impressions…

Any way I can opt out of the extra impressions? Cause that’s a scam

[candid lily]

yes, by only setting the budget to what you're willing to pay

extra impressions are based on your budget you've set

-retroactive

[lean whale]

Why was I charged for "extra" impressions?

When you receive more impressions than initially estimated, this is when "retroactive charging" occurs. This means that despite you not paying for the impressions at the beginning of the week when the auction ended, your ad will show up and you will be required to pay at the end of the week. However, you will never be charged more than your maximum bid budget.

💡 For more information, check out this support article on Retroactive Charges.

[warm thunder]

I tried to implement this in my analytics

however it just didnt redirect

It just showed the added successfully page

[brittle carbon]

You need to make sure you've added the url on your Discord developer portal

Under redirects

[warm thunder]

in the redirect uris?

[brittle carbon]

Yeah

[warm thunder]

yeah i have it added

https://discord.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=869014464144490497&permissions=8&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Ftildebot.com%2Finvited%2F&scope=bot applications.commands

i have this link

does it look right

when I try to add with it, it just doesnt redirect back

[brittle carbon]

No. Look at mine. You need the code thingy thing. I don't remember what it is off the top of my head

[warm thunder]

do I need to add "identify"?

ahh

[jolly blaze]

If you don't plan on using the token no

[brittle carbon]

Yeah

That's it

[warm thunder]

ok perfect this is what i needed thank you

[brittle carbon]

Np

[warm thunder]

it'd just make the conversion rate lower too lol

[jolly blaze]

Yeah not everyone wants that when inviting a bot

https://godder.xyz/blog/redirect-users-after-they-invite-your-bot

[warm thunder]

oh damn you've done a whole blog page on that

[brittle carbon]

Nice I have been wanting to write a blog post for it simply because I recommend this to users all the time. I'll save your link. Super useful

[warm thunder]

what do you use for the blog?

[jolly blaze]

Nextjs

[warm thunder]

you scripted everything yourself?

[jolly blaze]

Well yeah

I wrote all the code myself

[warm thunder]

Damn the site looks good bro

[jolly blaze]

Thanks

Did you get a spot in this week's auction?

[warm thunder]

yep luckily

it was much more expensive this week though

but i actually released my bot so people can add it lol

previously it was just linking to my support server

[jolly blaze]

Nice

Yeah this week was kinda expensive for me compared to previous weeks but I managed to get est. 3.9k impressions for $25

[warm thunder]

you're advertising reindeer right?

[jolly blaze]

Moderation tag 2 is always really competitive

Yea

[warm thunder]

yeah ive thought about putting my bot on it but its way too competitive lol

[jolly blaze]

Where'd you put it instead?

[warm thunder]

antiraid, antispam, and security

also

[jolly blaze]

Whats the impressions for those?

[warm thunder]

how many servers do you usually get per week with your ads?

[jolly blaze]

Like total for the tag

[jolly blaze]

This is my second week, first week I only got 760 impressions and gained about 10-15 servers

[warm thunder]

i think ~600 for antiraid, ~300 for antispam, and ~450 security

[warm thunder]

what was the CTR that week?

[jolly blaze]

That was one of the front page tags... bidded $16@$16 bc I really overestimated my cpm lol

[warm thunder]

damnnn lol the CTR is really low there

also, have you managed to get profitable with any of your bots?

[jolly blaze]

Not yet

[brittle carbon]

Mine has been profitable for a while. Mainly because I keep running costs to an absolute minimum. I give 50% of the revenue to charity too.

[jolly blaze]

I currently just have vote awards until I get a decent server count

[brittle carbon]

That's a great strategy That's what I did

[jolly blaze]

And new ideas xd

[warm thunder]

you have 90000 servers its literally crazy lmao, shouldnt be too hard to be profitable at that point

but do you have like premium subscription for the bot

[brittle carbon]

Yeah

Crossed into 4 figures of MRR last month for the first time

[warm thunder]

and you're donating 50% to charity too thats really nice

your bot looks really solid

[brittle carbon]

Thanks

[warm thunder]

when did you actually start this bot?

like how long did it take to reach this huge number lol

[lucid lily]

PixxieBot's servers

[brittle carbon]

I only really started advertising on Top.gg around April 2022

Got lucky that I created it a few weeks before the whole world locked down because of covid

Like 3 weeks later we were all locked indoors

That was a big factor for early growth ngl

[jolly blaze]

What are the spikes 🤔

[brittle carbon]

My coding skills

I have a microservice that handles posting. I save each shard's data to a db, and the spikes are shards messing up or dying

[jolly blaze]

https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/nnJIl0ZmUh57K0EJYLVi5N_881Oj-Uuy0xRVYj_bwKc/%3Fwidth%3D1700%26height%3D900%26backgroundColor%3D00000000%26titleFontSize%3D55%26labelFontSize%3D32%26cache%3D82922518145/https/dblstatistics.com/bot/1126157327746211840/widget/servers

I'm still kinda stuck on adding new ideas for my bot

I have a few but they're not really big exciting features

[brittle carbon]

Gotta do something unique

Or do something better than any other bot that offers the same thing

[stuck night]

@brittle carbon @brittle carbon

[jolly blaze]

Mac Mac

[unkempt hound]

mAc mAc

[crisp grove]

MaC MaC

[warm thunder]

anyone have any tips on how to roll out bot updates without taking the bot down

[brittle carbon]

Look up "hot reloading"

[warm thunder]

is that what most bots do? looks promising

[brittle carbon]

It's the best way of doing it I know of yeah

[warm thunder]

and if I have larger changes I'll need to fully restart the bot right? like changes to the index.js for example

[jolly blaze]

Yes

[brittle carbon]

Depends how you connect to the gateway I think. I wouldn't know I don't do it but I'll be doing it in my rewrite.

You can ask in #development. The people there are very helpful.

[warm thunder]

alright thanks yall

[unkempt hound]

@violet sand

Also in #auctions-support and many other channels

[warm thunder]

auctions today

🤑

[flat fractal]

Who's ready to get sweaty out in the auctions this Monday?

[warm thunder]

https://tenor.com/view/is-this-information-legit-gif-9202849568376436420

https://tenor.com/view/wait-im-goated-im-goated-goated-cat-cat-water-cat-gif-1308196558419028611

does anyone know any possibles causes for my bot's CTR getting lower this week than the previous one

[candid lily]

changed in the trending of an ad

your ctr will never be the same always

[dim shard]

how would i be able to bid $15 of credit

[candid lily]

-credits

[lean whale]

Auction Credits

What are credits?

• If enough people vote for your bot or server per month, you have the ability to earn vote credits that you can then use for auctions.
• Don’t know what auctions is? See here to learn more and here to participate.
• These auction credits can be used to pay for any winning bids you may make.
• You CANNOT “withdraw” them for real money.

How does the system work?

• Each month, bot monthly votes reset (midnight UTC).
• If you get 100 votes on your bot in the month, you can redeem $15 worth of voting credits (note: you can’t redeem till you actually get 101 votes).
• Any vote after 100 will be worth $1 per 1000 votes (or $.001 per 1 vote)

How do I redeem them?

• At the end of the month, you will be eligible to redeem your credits (you redeem them on your bot or server's Votes page). You will have 30 days to redeem them before they expire.
• After you redeem them, you have 31 days to use them before they expire.

How do I use vote credits to pay for Auctions?

• When you pay for your winning bid, you can "Pay with Credits".
• If your payment cost is more than the amount of credits you have, make sure to apply the credits first and then pay the rest with the supported payment providers.

You can read more about using your vote credits in our vote credit support article.
You can read more about Auctions in our Auctions support articles.

[candid lily]

yup read the message

your bid is less than what the tag has as the minimum bid for example

[jolly blaze]

You can't bid on that slot because it's reserved for partnerships, try bidding on slot 2 of that category

[warm thunder]

top.gg should just mark the slot as completed and not allow bidding for partnered reserved slots

it seems to confuse many people

like for example when bidding is completed for a slot it is grayed out

[warm thunder]

true

[muted ocean]

let's go someone is taking up both slots of a tag again

waste of money imo

[jolly blaze]

#bids going crazy at this time again :D

[muted ocean]

that's a beaut right there

[warm thunder]

auctions are done 🤑

[warm thunder]

basically a free slot lmao

[earnest slate]

[jolly blaze]

accidentally bid $30 budget and couldnt put it less so i just suffered the loss lol

[warm thunder]

🤑

what slot

[jolly blaze]

moderation 2

[earnest slate]

Got 3500 impressions for $16, not that bad

[warm thunder]

that slot was competitive ash today

[jolly blaze]

which tag/slot?

[dim shard]

so which price does it go by?cdm or max budget?

[warm thunder]

which slots

[split dirge]

darn lost both slots on the tag I most want while engaged with other tags

[warm thunder]

you gotta up your game bro 🤑

brah*

[earnest slate]

Had 4, the most expensive one was 'New Page' for ~$12

[earnest slate]

Emoji Stealer, Autoroles, New Page and Temporary Voice

[warm thunder]

what bot do you have btw?

[earnest slate]

Basically free impressions down there and they are not even bad

[dim shard]

spending $15 basically right?

[earnest slate]

Yes

[warm thunder]

yeah

[muted ocean]

Set up 5 monitors and go into overdrive

[warm thunder]

at max 15$

[dim shard]

alright

[earnest slate]

[warm thunder]

jesus i just looked at how many badges you have

[dim shard]

1k impressions for $15 seems bad

[jolly blaze]

which slot?

[dim shard]

top page slot 2

[jolly blaze]

imo 1k impressions isnt worth it at all, especially if its $10+

[earnest slate]

Look at the Twitch tag then

[dim shard]

can't go lower....

[earnest slate]

Hilarious amount of money for so little impressions

[dim shard]

fml

[warm thunder]

ye su can

u can *

[earnest slate]

The 1000 impressions will be gone quickly

[dim shard]

wont let me

[warm thunder]

yh u cant change

(its too late)

[dim shard]

mhm

[jolly blaze]

still have my previous campaign going

[warm thunder]

slot?

[jolly blaze]

moderation 2

[dim shard]

what about now?

[warm thunder]

moderation 2 is pretty good except lower CTRs

[warm thunder]

where is the difference

[dim shard]

im saying

can i go lower

now

2 min were added back

[warm thunder]

you cant change your bid

[jolly blaze]

the partner for slot 1 has a crazy ctr of 20%

[warm thunder]

fr its really high which bot is it even lmao

[jolly blaze]

uhh i think it was the maki

[warm thunder]

seems like rly good slot which one is it

[jolly blaze]

nice

[earnest slate]

It was/is @lean whale of course 😏

[grim agate]

Music tag slot 1

[warm thunder]

damnnn nice how much does it cost

(usually)

[grim agate]

it was aug 01. previous one I did

[brittle carbon]

Tag pages sometimes get much higher CTRs simply because people Google "moderation discord bots" and click the first link (Top.gg) and see the top bot on the moderation tag page and don't look any further.

[dim shard]

is this good? @warm thunder

[grim agate]

this is the second time I bid so have no clue yet

what the "market prices" are

[dim shard]

3500 imp for $7

[warm thunder]

it depends a lot on CTR, however 3.5k impressions is generally good for 7$ yes

[clear vigil]

whatchu get

4k for $20 dont seem to good now

[grim agate]

So when do the won auctions go live usually?

[brittle carbon]

-golive

[lean whale]

When do ads go live?

After bidding closes, there's a 24h payment window until 7pm UTC on Tuesday. During this time, all winning bidders must pay in full for their ads.

At 7pm UTC on Tuesday, all ads that have been successfully fully paid are scheduled for display during the coming cycle. One hour later, at 8pm UTC, these ads start to show.

Ads are displayed in order of highest CPM winning bids until all impressions are served. If you're near the top of the leaderboard you can expect your ad to go live around the start of the cycle. If you're closer to the bottom, it'll more likely be around the weekend or as late as the following Tuesday when the cycle ends.

💡 Partial payments using credits does not ensure partial impressions! Ads only go live for slots where payment requests have been paid in full!

[grim agate]

nice ty for quick info

[brittle carbon]

No problem!

[warm thunder]

🤑

[dim shard]

so vote funds basically can't be added till the end of that month?

[warm thunder]

i think only admins can run that command brah

[brittle carbon]

-credits

[lean whale]

@dim shard

Auction Credits

What are credits?

• If enough people vote for your bot or server per month, you have the ability to earn vote credits that you can then use for auctions.
• Don’t know what auctions is? See here to learn more and here to participate.
• These auction credits can be used to pay for any winning bids you may make.
• You CANNOT “withdraw” them for real money.

How does the system work?

• Each month, bot monthly votes reset (midnight UTC).
• If you get 100 votes on your bot in the month, you can redeem $15 worth of voting credits (note: you can’t redeem till you actually get 101 votes).
• Any vote after 100 will be worth $1 per 1000 votes (or $.001 per 1 vote)

How do I redeem them?

• At the end of the month, you will be eligible to redeem your credits (you redeem them on your bot or server's Votes page). You will have 30 days to redeem them before they expire.
• After you redeem them, you have 31 days to use them before they expire.

How do I use vote credits to pay for Auctions?

• When you pay for your winning bid, you can "Pay with Credits".
• If your payment cost is more than the amount of credits you have, make sure to apply the credits first and then pay the rest with the supported payment providers.

You can read more about using your vote credits in our vote credit support article.
You can read more about Auctions in our Auctions support articles.

[dim shard]

wont it just reset though?

wait

nvm

i get it

[warm thunder]

are these people even gonna pay for these ads

100 $ for 1000 impressions with terribly low CTR

like max 5 clicks for that

this is on front page trending new

[jolly blaze]

Prob

Some people are just rich

[warm thunder]

most likely they dont understand the auctions system

someone got 22K impressions on the same slot for 55$

[jolly blaze]

lol

[warm thunder]

lovely, wasted 100$

(them)

[balmy beacon]

I paid for 9125 impressions.

[tight mica]

who wants to buy my bot

20% off

72$

called gamma 1 bot he looks like this

he basically uhm

speedruns

[fallow lodge]

[unkempt hound]

No one gives a crap about your bot. I mean your banned afterall

[cold venture]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[warm thunder]

🤑

[balmy idol]

yea they do, if u pay with paypal u send the money to fastspring not to topgg's paypal

they act like a proxy

they take the liability

[warm thunder]

so if a chargeback happens, fastspring loses the money right

and top.gg is fine

https://stripe.com/en-cy/radar/chargeback-protection

[balmy idol]

eh depends on how badly they get chargebacks

[warm thunder]

stripe has it too 👍

[balmy idol]

this doesn't solve the issue

this is just a tool to let u detect potential fraudlent purchases

[warm thunder]

all money goes through stripe too, they are your payment processor they also act like a proxy

[balmy idol]

u are still liable, u are the processor

[warm thunder]

no, this is chargeback full protection

its included with Radar

[balmy idol]

oh shoot

that's nice never seen it before

[warm thunder]

it's existed for a while

stripe is really good, i dont see why they dont switch

[balmy idol]

yeap good suggestion

but i dont think u can pay with paypal on stripe right

[warm thunder]

you can 1 sec lemme show u

[balmy idol]

i mean u can probs integrate it to their portal but

its still ur paypal account right

[warm thunder]

you can have it go thru stripe or thru your paypal account

its pretty nice

[jolly blaze]

You can only receive payouts using stripe tho (so bank account for most countries)

[balmy idol]

im pretty sure topgg has a bank account

[warm thunder]

thats fine tho lmfao

[warm thunder]

yeah lol

anyway this is just my advice for top.gg

[balmy idol]

i used to send them wires directly

[warm thunder]

as fastspring has some really negative things

[balmy idol]

back when fastspring would mess up

[warm thunder]

apparently it can even mess up if you dont click the "continue" button once you've paid

so weird lol

like on the popup

btw Stripe even supports direct bank transfer through stripe

they create a virtual IBAN for each transfer its rly cool

[balmy idol]

damnn

that's dope

[warm thunder]

even more reason to switch to them lol

[balmy idol]

yeap

i think when topgg first made auctions

fastspring was a good choice

[warm thunder]

i mean it was probably really simple to set up and all but there seems to be many problems

[balmy idol]

i think they used to have a bot

[warm thunder]

donatebot

[balmy idol]

for donations or something

yea

[warm thunder]

yeah didnt you literally pay with that lmfao

[balmy idol]

i see it in the invoices i think

[warm thunder]

you can see when you pay, it loads thru "donatebot.onfastspring.com"

https://donatebot.onfastspring.com/

you can visit it

its super old looking

[balmy idol]

lmao

[warm thunder]

the comparison fastspring has on their site against stripe is fully complete bs

theres literally no extra cost for B2B costs, free subscription management,

additional payment methods? what does that even mean

stripe has like 40

anyway they are literally lying

[balmy idol]

their selling point is the taxes compliance

[warm thunder]

but stripe literally has that

https://stripe.com/en-cy/tax

[dense stag]

Hello

[flat fractal]

https://tenor.com/view/sale-crazy-gif-20051805

top.gg - 10 minutes before auction closes loll

[stoic panther]

how to get notified when put it

outbid

[oak whale]

You can turn on notifications via the settings page, but they are not 100 percent reliable currently

[warm thunder]

auctions is over 🤑

[muted ocean]

indeed

this week I got fine slots, let's see if the servers react accordingly 😄

[flat fractal]

A little red dot will appear when the listed auction changes.

[warm thunder]

very very cheap this week

[flat fractal]

We had some ballers in auction this week

[jolly blaze]

which tag?

[warm thunder]

Antiraid slot 1
Antispam slot 1
Security slot 1
and
Final step of add server flow

but the final step of add server flow is extra 3 $ but i paid with wallet

so it was fully like 8.5$

[jolly blaze]

nice, moderation tag 2 expensive as always

[oak whale]

the bigger the tag, the more expensive they usually are

[jolly blaze]

yeah

[oak whale]

moderation and music i think are the biggest ones

obviously besides front page lol

[warm thunder]

fr

im lucky ahh its so cheap

im not earning anything from my bot it doesnt even have a purpose yet its just some side project lmao

[split dirge]

$%#$ I was distracted by someone being in the hospital and forgot to hop on for auction end time

[warm thunder]

what were u advertising

[split dirge]

custom bots. lost most of the slots bidding in. one and left for 1504 impressions

[warm thunder]

damn which slots

[jolly blaze]

@warm thunder may i ask what was your ctr last week?

[split dirge]

empty search results is the most wanted slot. had a few other I was bidding on

[warm thunder]

let me check for ya

[warm thunder]

ctr is really low there though right?

[static phoenix]

I was lucky to get it 😮

[jolly blaze]

its 20% lol

[true lance]

1.9% 💀

[warm thunder]

instant discord fact checking

[warm thunder]

so its like 35% for antispam

20% antiraid

14% security

and 2% add server flow

[brittle carbon]

Tags always have higher CTR because when people Google "discord moderation bots" our moderation tag is one of the top results and so they just click the first thing they see on the list which explains the high CTR on slot 1 on tags

[warm thunder]

🤑🤑🤑 (how did y'all even get such good SEO lmao)

[jolly blaze]

right i was blind

[floral talon]

What’s this someone dm me about it

[warm thunder]

?

[neat valley]

µ

[stoic panther]

when do my listings go live

[oak whale]

the payment window ends in 1 minute 🙂 and then the first ads will start to go live after about an hour or so due to caching

[stoic panther]

Alr bet

so like 1hr

it’ll be up

[oak whale]

so sometime between now and an hour the first ads will start to go live

[stoic panther]

?

[oak whale]

if you were the first, yes

they show in order of CPM bidding

[stoic panther]

Ah

[oak whale]

-notshowing

[lean whale]

My active ad is showing 0 impressions

Ads are shown in order of highest to lowest winning bids. Your ad will be shown when the people before you have had all their impressions served.

The current auctions cycle doesn't end until Tuesday at 7pm UTC so there's still time for your ad to show!

If for any reason there aren't enough impressions to go around and you aren't served any impressions, you will be automatically refunded at the end of the current auctions cycle.

[stoic panther]

i see

[small mural]

does it normally take a bit for auctions to reopen?

[oak whale]

yep, they reopen at 8pm UTC (in 12 minutes)

[small mural]

gotcha

[loud sand]

Pass server raid

[split dirge]

Are you saying someone attempting to raid this server? If so there is no evidence which would be a pass for defenses

[fallow lodge]

they sent it in loads of channels

i would just ignore them

[brittle carbon]

I refuse to admit this bid was for the memes

[jolly blaze]

It's currently Sunday

I'm "supposed" to get 3k impressions on moderation tag 2

And there's today and tomorrow to do that

[candid lily]

If you don't receive them, you get the remaining impressions refunded

[muted topaz]

Hey

[brittle carbon]

-notshowing

[lean whale]

@jolly blaze

My active ad is showing 0 impressions

Ads are shown in order of highest to lowest winning bids. Your ad will be shown when the people before you have had all their impressions served.

The current auctions cycle doesn't end until Tuesday at 7pm UTC so there's still time for your ad to show!

If for any reason there aren't enough impressions to go around and you aren't served any impressions, you will be automatically refunded at the end of the current auctions cycle.

[brittle carbon]

No ads

[wise monolith]

yo how do I get a custom top.gg url for my bot for example mee6 has top.gg/bot/mee6

I want to get top.gg/bot/square

[fallow lodge]

not possible anymore and hasn't been for a few years

[wise monolith]

ah ok

[true lance]

[brittle carbon]

[split dirge]

your add is so good 1 person saw it and 34 people clicked

[earnest slate]

It will now end at 12am for me

Time to pull an all-nighter

[vital mulch]

No auctions for me tonight ;-;

[true lance]

1 AM 🥲

[candid lily]

tomorrow is holidays anyways

ez

in germany

[earnest slate]

Oh, true, 3rd of October

[small mural]

I don’t work 🤷‍♂️ plus it’s at 5pm for me

[neat valley]

It doesnt work ,i can bought an ad

[oak whale]

Correct, 24 hours to pay

[flat fractal]

I have a question, I see this a lot and it always confuses me. Someone will often bid on something that has like 600 impressions and they will do something like 1@100... Like, if they win are they spending 100 on that 600 impressions? or does it default back to 1 dollar. I always assume they're going to spend 100 for them 600 impressions and sometimes ill even let it go so they will win. Now im second thinking it..

Like i know i could do something like 1.25@1.25 and gain it back.. but.

[unkempt hound]

What holiday?

[candid lily]

Tag der Einheit / Day of something

[oak whale]

the first number is the amount they pay per 1000 impressions
the second number is their maximum budget

so if they bid 1@100 but only get 600 impressions, theyd only pay .60 cents

[unkempt hound]

Isn't everyday something though?

What is a "impression"

[flat fractal]

got you. Thanks for clearing that up!

[oak whale]

an impression is a view of your ad

[unkempt hound]

So 600 impressions are 600 views

[oak whale]

yep

[candid lily]

please dm xiuh for auctions support thanks (dont actually)

[void drum]

That auto message is not valid for this week, correct?

[oak whale]

correct

3 hours

[muted ocean]

dangit, 3 extra hours

[neat valley]

Why are auctions later today?

[oak whale]

an unfortunate bug

[neat valley]

So just this week?

Ok, thanks

[oak whale]

yeah just this week

[neat valley]

can everyone agree to stop bidding earlier so we can all get some sleep

cheers

[muted ocean]

I second that

[jolly blaze]

you dont have to bid at all until the last 3 mins

it doesnt matter if you bid earlier

[oak whale]

ive seen people still get impressions if they bid earlier

[jolly blaze]

yeah, just saying that you dont have to bid early

[muted ocean]

well this week has a problem of some people not being able to bid later

[oak whale]

Yeah its very unfortunate, we understand that some people will not be able to stay up

If we would have been able to fix it, we would have done so

[trail forum]

what

[oak whale]

#auctions-status

[trail forum]

Will it always be at this time from now on?

[oak whale]

No, just today

[trail forum]

oh, okey

thx

[carmine totem]

Just to confirm is the bidding ending in 2 or 3 hours

[oak whale]

around 2 hours and 45 minutes ish

[jolly blaze]

It ends in <t:1696284000:R>

[carmine totem]

Ok cool.

[neat valley]

Will top.gg sponsor my coffee tomorrow morning?

[oak whale]

Only if it sponsors mine

[small mural]

never knew there were a lot of last minute bids lol

#bids is popping off

[oak whale]

most people don't bid until the last 10 ish minutes

[small mural]

yeah lol i thought i was going to have it easy

[fallow lodge]

[candid lily]

lol

[fallow lodge]

either not gonna pay

or will complain not enough views

[junior moon]

@oak whale the bid is ending 30 mins earlier than it expect

is it alr?

[oak whale]

Yeah the countdown wasnt precise until it got to 1 hour left

the time shown on the countdown on the website itself is accurate

[junior moon]

ok it is hard for asia people for bidding

do you have any solution for this :))

[oak whale]

it will be fixed for next auctions

this is a one time issue

[junior moon]

Can I have some information how it will change?

[oak whale]

the reason that it was late was because it started late last week. this week it will start on time and therefore end on time

[junior moon]

It is also good for medium or low bidder like us when now we have more slots to win

• No I mean even it is on time it will be 2:00 am on Bangkok or Ho Chi Minh City time so it is hard for our countries to keep camping and bidding

[oak whale]

I dont know what you mean by that then

it always ends at 7pm UTC, it was just a little extended today because of a bug

[balmy idol]

Still going hot for slot 2

who is the amazon guy

[oak whale]

If there is a bid placed in the last 2 minutes it will still extend like normal

if its extended people can place more bids, if not then they are final yes

Yes, if they have ended they are done

You can to go https://auctions.top.gg/pay to pay

Normally it is 24 hours after auctions end, but I'm not sure about this one because we ended late. I would say you should pay before 7pm UTC tomorrow (so about 21 hours from now)

[jolly blaze]

I'd have to pay using card this week but then I should be able to use partial funds from my wallet next week since I'm getting ~1k impressions refunded

[oak whale]

No worries. This week is a bit weird

[jolly blaze]

But who knows, maybe tomorrow there will be 2k impressions

[oak whale]

You have to pay before the next cycle starts, and you get the refunds from last week when the next cycle starts, so you won't be able to use refunds from last week to pay for this week

[jolly blaze]

yeah (unfortunately?)

[oak whale]

its always like that

[jolly blaze]

true

[oak whale]

they go up in order of cpm bid - so the highest on the leaderboard is first, followed by the second, etc

until all the way down the list

then it should go live around 7pm utc tomorrow (tuesday)

[balmy idol]

still shows as unpaid

NVM it just took some time to process

[jolly blaze]

nice

[oak citrus]

bruh why are bids already over :(

though it was gonna be in 10 mins

[carmine totem]

hahaha how did the time change?

[clear vigil]

had my alarm clock set and everything..
wish we were @'d of the 2nd time change :(

[small mural]

#auctions-status message

[fallow lodge]

yoooooo fastspring finally shows the correct merchant name on bank statements now

before it used to give the name of some random SEO site

[jolly blaze]

it still and always showed FS *discordbots for me

[fallow lodge]

used to show ahrefs.com

[brittle carbon]

I've never seen that happen before lol

[fallow lodge]

#support message
#auctions-support message

[candid lily]

fastspring

[warm thunder]

pls make sure there's not this issue next week. no one can bid at 1 or 2 am

[jolly blaze]

There's a magical thing called timezones, during the normal time some people still bid at 1-2am in their timezone

[lost brook]

are the auction-advertisements live?

[fallow lodge]

not yet

[brittle carbon]

-golive

[lean whale]

When do ads go live?

After bidding closes, there's a 24h payment window until 7pm UTC on Tuesday. During this time, all winning bidders must pay in full for their ads.

At 7pm UTC on Tuesday, all ads that have been successfully fully paid are scheduled for display during the coming cycle. One hour later, at 8pm UTC, these ads start to show.

Ads are displayed in order of highest CPM winning bids until all impressions are served. If you're near the top of the leaderboard you can expect your ad to go live around the start of the cycle. If you're closer to the bottom, it'll more likely be around the weekend or as late as the following Tuesday when the cycle ends.

💡 Partial payments using credits does not ensure partial impressions! Ads only go live for slots where payment requests have been paid in full!

[fallow lodge]

also sending in like 4 channels won't help

[brittle carbon]

Although 7pm UTC is TBD due to the issue yesterday

[lost brook]

😔 im on my smoke break my b

[lost brook]

okay, ty <3

[warm thunder]

i know but half the world wont be able to

(EU, asia etc)

im in eu

[cold venture]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[warm thunder]

https://tenor.com/view/nerd-gif-26382103

you

(but actually)

[cold venture]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[brittle carbon]

Yep

[candid lily]

#auctions-support message

[whole remnant]

।

[neat valley]

Can you change the ad during the week?

ignore. you can.

[jolly blaze]

It depends, especially based on which tag you picked

Picking a front page or another general tag will probably result in less ctr, but that's ok if your product doesn't fit any of the other tags

[brittle carbon]

9% is an amazing CTR by industry standards

[woven cedar]

theres nothing we can do

[warm thunder]

auctions just be like a competitive ahh game

[floral talon]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[oak whale]

sniping prevention

if someone bids in the last minute it gets extended by 2 minutes

up to 2 hours i believe

[patent blaze]

When does the refund for excess impressions take place? I bought some, was expecting 1000 but only got 50, don't see a refund tho

[oak whale]

when the cycle ends, which is tomorrow at 7pm utc

[brittle carbon]

Auctions fixing is a bannable offense

[oak whale]

emails are not 100 percent reliable, just go to https://auctions.top.gg/pay

[muted ocean]

it was just an idea, but my apologies

[oak whale]

we sometimes give them out for promotional events, winning contests in our server, or as apologies for bugs or other issues, but there aren't any universal ones

[warm thunder]

giv 🤑

[oak whale]

there aren't any currently public

[warm thunder]

😭

finally the auctions are over

[dim shard]

not all of them

[warm thunder]

ik i just meant mine

the tags i bid on ended thisminute

it was super competitive lmao

[dim shard]

i spent $9 for 1.6k

on front page

[warm thunder]

which tag

[dim shard]

top voted

slot 2

lmao 💀

[warm thunder]

1000$ jesus

[muted ocean]

that's a lot

[true lance]

🫠

[warm thunder]

1k$ for 5k clicks

[candid lily]

Lol

[warm thunder]

meant 4k