Role creation cooldown

Why a load stops partway through

Discord allows 250 roles to be created per server every 48 hours. The limit is Discord’s. It counts every role created on the server, whether by Xenon, another bot, or a person. We can’t lift or raise it for you.

What it counts is role creations, not roles the server currently has. A server can’t hold more than 250 roles, so one backup can’t use up the quota on its own. A load only stops when roles were already created in the last 48 hours. That can be an earlier load, a clone, another bot, or someone creating roles by hand. Loading the same backup twice spends the quota twice. A server with 50 roles gets about five loads in a 48-hour window.

Caution

Canceling the load, deleting the roles it made, or kicking the bot doesn’t give the quota back. Once a role creation is counted, it stays counted until the window rolls past it.

What you can do

You can wait. The window is rolling, so the quota comes back gradually instead of all at once. A load that stopped gets further the next time you run it.

You can also load without touching roles. If you only need the channel layout, skip role creation and the limit never applies:

/backup load backup_id: [BACKUP-ID-HERE] options: !delete-roles !roles

Your existing roles and everyone’s role assignments stay exactly as they are. That’s usually what you want on a server that already has members.

A note on channels

Channel creation has no 48-hour cooldown. Discord caps a server at 500 channels in total. That’s a ceiling on the server, not a limit on how fast a bot can work. A load that fits under it won’t stop the way a role-heavy one can.