Discord Profiles Can Do This Now

Technological concepts / product features covered

1) Custom Discord profile widgets (how to make them)

The video explains—and then walks through—how to create custom widgets on a Discord profile using the Discord Developer Portal and a third-party tutorial write-up (“Chloe Sanders”). The widget can include:

• Widget layout: “hero” vs “contained” styles
• Widget top section
  • Required image (uploaded asset)
  • Title/text (using custom string)
  • Optional labels
  • Optional icon (also via an uploaded asset, including GIF support)
• Widget bottom section
  • Stats grid
  • Collection (image + text cards)
  • Progress bar
    • Includes a numeric progress value and a max value

2) Image asset workflow (making media usable)

To use images/GIFs in the widget:

• Upload the media as an application asset
• Discord warns assets must be public before publishing
• The creator must click “make public” for each asset (not doing so causes widget parts to fail)

3) Dynamic vs static data fields

• For many text elements, the guide recommends custom string.
• For the progress bar, the guide uses data fields and sample data, and notes you must:
  • Set the progress as a value from 0 to 1
    • Example: 0.67 means 67%
  • Optionally set progress max
    • Example given: max value = 10 (so the displayed counter works as expected)

4) “Syncing” / validation steps

After configuration, required steps include:

• Add a Widget Preview element (required to validate the widget setup)
• Configure Mini profile display options (hero/contained)
• Check the Validation tab for “no validation errors”
• After saving: if the widget shows errors like “game stats are still syncing,” run an additional REST-style command (described below)

5) OAuth2 / authorization to enable widget tooling

To activate authorization/preview behavior:

• In OAuth2 settings, set up redirect/URIs
• Enable specific scopes such as:
  • OpenID
  • SDK social layer
• Use a URL generator and modify response type from code to token so the authorization flow works
• Have the user authorize the resulting app URL in Discord

6) Preview server + enabling widget display via code injection into Discord tooling

The video instructs:

• Joining a Discord preview server
• Copying a code snippet from a thread to paste into Discord tooling (console)
• Using this to enable widget config editing and related experimental UI/features

It references commands such as enabling an “experiment widget config editor” / “find by props” style tooling.

7) Fixing widget data via a REST invocation (progress bar update)

To resolve syncing and make the progress bar display correctly:

• Copy a snippet that uses an invoke rest method call
• Edit the snippet with:
  • The Discord application ID
  • The Discord user ID
  • A bot token
  • A JSON string generated from widget sample data

Important formatting cautions:

• Remove/avoid curly braces around replaced values—otherwise it won’t work
• Use JSON.stringify(...) in the console so the JSON becomes a single-line string
• Replace the JSON string contents carefully using “copy string contents” to avoid errors

8) Security warning: widget tutorials vs scam websites (do not use a shady widget marketplace)

A large portion of the video is a scam exposé / public service announcement:

• The creator evaluates a website claiming it will “do all the hard work” for custom Discord widgets
• While investigating, they join a related Discord server and identify the owner by name
• The creator claims the site requests extremely sensitive credentials:
  • Discord client secret
  • Discord bot token
• The creator also claims the widget tutorial requires authorizing a bot with message permissions—meaning a compromised bot could send messages “through your account”

Conclusion/imperative: do not use the referenced website and instead follow trusted instructions.

Reviews / guides / tutorials highlighted

• The tutorial is credited to Chloe Sanders via a linked write-up.
• The creator emphasizes the video’s steps are “confusing,” and the write-up contains required commands and code snippets.
• The workflow includes specific guidance sections:
  • Developer portal app creation + naming rules
  • Widget editor configuration
  • OAuth2 setup/redirect handling
  • Discord preview server join + code snippet
  • Widget sync/progress bar fix using REST invocation and JSON.stringify

Main speakers / sources

• Main speaker/creator: the YouTube narrator (not explicitly named in the subtitles)
• Tutorial source: Chloe Sanders (credited for the write-up)
• Investigated/mentioned source tied to the scam claim: “Kasa” / “Kasahe” / “Kasahe web” (names referenced by the narrator)