# Core Features

The core features of Thread-Watcher is the ability to select ("watch") threads and forum posts, hindering discord from automatically hiding or archiving them.

### What is being solved?

Consider the attached image. By default the two threads, `Cooking 🧑🍳` and `I did a thing` will get hidden from underneath the channel after the "Hide After Inactivity" timeframe has passed without a message being sent in the threads. 

<figure><img src="/files/NOZgIamXOjAQ9gHER5y6" alt="a Discord screenshot showing a forum channel called &#x22;member-projects&#x22; with two threads shown attached to the channel"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

This is likely intended by Discord to keep threads nice and tidy, to automatically "clean up" stale threads so your channel list is not filled with old conversations. However, this gets annoying quick if you are using threads for anything where long periods of inactivity is common. Especially frustrating is that there's no option to disable this automatic hiding of threads and that the max timeframe you can pick is 1 week.

### How is Thread-Watcher solving it?

Thread-Watcher will automatically "bump" your watched threads periodically to keep discord from hiding them! This is done by editing the thread which is completely silent, no weird notifications or ghost messages.

### Don't want bumps?

If you don't mind the threads disappearing from underneath the channel and just want the bot to make sure they're never archived you can set the Bump Behavior option to `Un-Archive only`&#x20;

<figure><img src="/files/88Pp4HZpIZwYfU108quI" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>


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