Safe mode

Safe mode lets you test a feature without it doing anything to Discord.

It is enabled by default on every new feature, and that default is there for a reason.

What it does

Your feature runs completely normally. The event fires, filters are checked, conditions are evaluated - everything behaves exactly as it will in real use.

Then, at the very moment it's time to carry out your actions, Nighty stops and instead shows a notification in the overview tab telling you that your actions were about to run.

Nothing is sent. Nothing is deleted. Nobody is banned. You just get told it would have happened.

This is a dress rehearsal with real events. You can point a feature that bans people at a real server and watch it decide who it would ban, without anyone being banned.

It covers every action in your feature - the final actions, and the "If met" and "Otherwise" actions inside your condition collections. Nothing slips through.

How to actually test with it

Turn the feature on with safe mode enabled, then go and live your normal Discord life for a while. Watch the notifications in the overview tab.

You're looking for one thing: does it fire when it should, and stay quiet when it shouldn't?

✅ What good looks like

Notifications appear only in the situations you built the feature for. You send a test message that should trigger it - a notification. You chat normally - silence.

🚨 What bad looks like

Notifications are spamming.

If safe mode is producing a stream of notifications, something is wrong. Your feature is triggering far more often than you intended. Turn safe mode off now and it would be spamming Discord, hitting rate limits, or acting on people you never meant to touch.

Spam is not a safe-mode problem - it's your feature telling you it's misconfigured, in the only way that can't hurt you. Treat it as the warning it is.

What spam usually means

Symptom	Likely cause
Fires on every message	No conditions, or conditions that almost always pass
Fires on things you sent yourself	Missing Ignore self filter
Fires in servers or channels you didn't intend	No whitelist filter
Fires on bot messages	Missing Ignore bots filter
Fires several times per event	Your conditions match more broadly than you think
Fires steadily forever	A loop - it's re-triggering on its own output

Fix the cause, then watch again. Repeat until it's quiet.

Turning it off

✅ Only disable safe mode once you have fully tested the feature.

Before you do, run through this:

• It fired every time it should have

• It stayed quiet every time it shouldn't have

• The notifications weren't spamming

• It has Ignore self

• It has a sensible execution limit

• Its filters restrict it to the servers and channels you intended

• You've read the feature's log and there are no errors in it

• You're comfortable with what happens if it fires when you didn't expect - especially for anything irreversible: ban, kick, delete, purge, leave

If any of those is a no, leave safe mode on and keep working.

Straight after turning it off

Watch the first few real runs closely and check the log. This is the first time your action expressions actually get worked out, so it's the first chance for a mistake in them to surface.

If anything looks wrong, turn safe mode back on or disable the feature immediately. You can toggle it as often as you like. For emergency: close Nighty and contact support.