What it is for
Echo watches a specific member and pastes what they post into a channel you choose. The usual reasons:
- Mirroring announcements from a founder or lead into a channel that members with a particular role can read
- Collecting one person's calls or signals into a single feed rather than leaving them scattered across channels
- Giving a role visibility of messages posted somewhere they cannot see
Setting one up
Each echo has four fields.
Title
A name for the echo. Only visible to you, on this page — it exists so a server with several echoes running is manageable.
User ID
The member whose messages get copied. Enable Developer Mode in Discord's advanced settings, then right-click the member and choose Copy User ID.
Paste channel
Where the copies go.
View roles
The important one, and the one worth reading twice: ScoutBot only copies messages from channels that this role can already read the history of.
That is a deliberate safety property rather than a limitation. Without it, an echo would be a way to lift messages out of a private channel and paste them somewhere the original audience never agreed to — so the role you pick here defines the boundary of what the echo is allowed to see.
Pick a role that genuinely has access to the channels you want mirrored. If an echo seems to be doing nothing, this is almost always why.
Turning it on and off
The switch at the top of the page stops all copying. Your configured echoes are kept, so it works as a pause.
Free
Echo is free on every server.