cog-creators/red-discordbot

A multi-function Discord bot

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Summary Information

Updated 38 minutes ago
Added to GitGenius on September 11th, 2026
Created on January 2nd, 2016
Open Issues & Pull Requests: 301 (+0)
GitHub issues: Enabled
Number of forks: 2,522
Total Stargazers: 5,704 (+0)
Total Subscribers: 204 (+0)

Repository Insights (GitGenius)

Median issue/PR response: 5.2 hours
Mean response time: 84.0 days
90th percentile: 288.4 days
Tracked items: 216

How this project is maintained

Around half of the issues opened in the past year never receive a reply. 62% of open issues come from outside the core team, a mix of external reports and the maintainers' own roadmap. Work labelled "Status: Needs Triage" is answered fastest, typically in about an hour, while "Status: PRs Welcome" waits about 3 weeks. Only 3% of issues opened in the past year have been closed. Three people close 75% of everything that gets resolved.

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Issue Activity (beta)

Open issues: 200
New in 7 days: 0
Closed in 7 days: 1
Avg open age: 1,740 days
Stale 30+ days: 195
Stale 90+ days: 192

Recent activity

Opened in 7 days: 0
Closed in 7 days: 1
Comments in 7 days: 0
Events in 7 days: 0

Top labels

  • Type: Enhancement (90)
  • Type: Bug (85)
  • Type: Feature (70)
  • Status: Needs Discussion (68)
  • Status: Accepted (66)
  • Status: In Progress (57)
  • Category: Cogs - Audio (41)
  • Status: PRs Welcome (35)

Detailed Description

Red is a self-hosted Discord bot that provides music, moderation, trivia, stream alerts, and fully modular functionality.

Red solves the problem of needing a customizable bot for Discord servers by offering a fully modular architecture where all features and commands can be enabled or disabled according to preference. The bot runs on your own infrastructure rather than being cloud-hosted, giving you complete control over its operation. It communicates with Discord's API to deliver its capabilities within server environments and can be configured entirely through Discord commands without requiring coding knowledge beyond the initial installation and setup.

Red suits server administrators and communities that want a self-hosted solution with flexibility to pick and choose which features to enable. The modular design means you can run it as a specialized bot focused on one function or combine multiple capabilities like music playback, moderation tools, and trivia games in a single instance. The tool is designed to be accessible to non-technical users once deployed, as all configuration happens within Discord itself rather than through code editing or configuration files.

The project maintains active test coverage through automated testing workflows. Documentation is comprehensively maintained and available through a dedicated documentation site. The codebase follows consistent style standards using an automated code formatter. The project actively welcomes pull requests from contributors. Localization support is managed through a community translation platform, indicating ongoing work to support multiple languages.