How to move your community from Discord to Klang, step by step

Moving a community is mostly about people, not software. The technical part takes ten minutes; the hard part is getting everyone to show up in the new place. This guide covers both.

Klang works the way Discord does (servers, text and voice channels, roles, DMs), so nobody needs to learn a new app. What changes is that it feels faster, has no ads and costs less if you want the extras.

1. Decide what you’re moving

Before creating anything, look at your current server and write down:

• The channels people actually use. Most servers have a few busy channels and many quiet ones. Moving is a good excuse to keep only the busy ones.
• Your roles. Who are the admins and moderators, and which roles exist only for colors or for a game?
• What depends on bots. Klang doesn’t have bots. If your server relies on one for something essential, decide how you’ll handle that before you move.

Klang doesn’t import Discord servers or messages. Your old history stays in Discord, which is also a good reason to keep the old server around, read-only, for a while.

2. Create the server

In Klang, press + in the server rail and choose a template: From scratch, Friends, Study or Community. A template only decides which channels and categories the server starts with; you can rename, reorder and delete them afterwards.

Then add your icon, create the channels you listed and drag them into categories. Text channels and voice channels work like you expect.

3. Set up roles and permissions

Create your roles with their colors and order them from most to least important: a role can only manage the ones below it. Give permissions per role, and use per-channel permissions for private spaces like a moderators channel.

Keep it simple at first. It’s easier to add a permission later than to explain why someone lost one.

4. Invite everyone, without forcing sign-ups

Create an invite link. You can make it expire after a while or after a number of uses, which is useful if you post it somewhere public.

The best part: people don’t need an account to join. Anyone who opens the link can come in as a guest from their browser and start talking straight away. If they stay, they create an account later and keep everything: their messages, their servers and their friends. That removes the biggest reason people don’t follow a move: “I’ll sign up later”.

5. Announce the move where people already are

Post the invite in your Discord server, pinned in the main channel and in an announcement. Explain briefly why you’re moving and what stays the same. Something like:

We’re trying Klang for the next weeks. Same channels, same people, no ads, and it’s faster. You can join from this link without creating an account.

6. Run both for a week

Don’t close the old server on day one. Keep both open for a week or two, hold your usual voice nights in Klang, and gently point new conversations there. When most people have moved, make the old server read-only and leave a pinned message with the new invite.

7. Extras, if you want them

The free plan covers chat, voice and history with no limits. If your group shares a lot of screens, a Tier 1 ($4.99 a month) gives everyone in the server 1080p screen sharing and 100 MB files, and a Tier 2 ($11.99 a month) goes up to 1080p at 60 fps, 128 kbps voice and a custom invite link. One person pays, and the whole server gets it.

Checklist

• List the channels and roles you’ll keep.
• Create the server from a template and set up categories.
• Create roles, order them and set permissions.
• Create an invite link and post it, pinned, in your Discord.
• Hold your next voice night in Klang.
• After a week or two, make the old server read-only.

Welcome to Klang.