Components V2

Discord shipped a newer message format called Components V2. Instead of an embed, a reply is built as a container: text, dividers, thumbnails and buttons laid out inside one bordered block. exceed can render its replies either way. Classic embeds stay the default and nothing changes until you turn this on.

Turning it on

,componentsv2 on
,componentsv2 off
,componentsv2 status

Needs Manage Server. It is also on the dashboard under General, as the Components V2 card.

What actually changes

Replies get rebuilt as containers. The accent stripe down the left edge takes the color the embed would have used, fields become text blocks separated by dividers, and buttons sit inside the container rather than under the message.

Some replies deliberately stay on embeds even when the setting is on:

• Anything with an image attachment — rank cards, welcome cards, image commands. Components V2 does not display attachments unless they are declared as components, so these would render blank. They keep using embeds instead.
• Replies too large for the format — Discord caps a container at 10 items, 40 components and 4000 characters of text. A reply that would breach any of those falls back to the embed rather than failing to send.

Messages already posted do not change

Discord cannot convert a message that has already been sent, in either direction. A panel keeps the style it was created with for its whole life.

So turning this on affects new replies only, and turning it off does not convert existing ones back. Panels that update themselves, like the music player, switch over the next time they are recreated.

Mentions

Mentions inside an embed never ping anyone, and that stays true here. When a reply is converted, any role or user mention that came from the embed is left inert, so switching this on cannot start pinging people in messages that were previously silent. Mentions written in normal message content still ping exactly as before.