---
title: "Discord API Shard Param Required for Get Current User Guilds with Large Bot Sharding: 2026-09-15 | Harbyn"
description: "Discord API Shard Param Required for Get Current User Guilds with Large Bot Sharding, announced Sep 15, 2026."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/discord/2026-09-15-shard-param-required-for-get-current-user-guilds-with-large-bot-sharding"
last-updated: 2026-09-29
---

# Discord API Shard Param Required for Get Current User Guilds with Large Bot Sharding

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/changes/discord/2026-09-15-shard-param-required-for-get-current-user-guilds-with-large-bot-sharding>.

Breaking change - Discord API. medium severity. In effect.

Apps using large bot sharding must pass the shard query param to Get Current User Guilds: requests without it now return 400 Bad Request. Valid values are 0 through max\_concurrency - 1, using max\_concurrency from Get Gateway Bot; apps not using large bot sharding are unaffected.

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | [Discord API](https://harbyn.com/vendors/discord.md) |
| Kind | Breaking change |
| Severity | medium |
| Status | In effect |
| Announced | Sep 15, 2026 |
| Added to Harbyn | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Lead time | No dated deadline |
| Vendor page | <https://docs.discord.com/developers/change-log> |
| Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a deterministic parser |

## Find it in your code

```sh
npx harbyn scan
```

This change names no identifier the scanner can match line by line, so the scan tells you whether your repository uses Discord API, from its packages and API hosts. Nothing leaves your machine.

## Sources

Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot.

- <https://docs.discord.com/developers/change-log/rss.xml> (changelog, fetched 2026-09-29 02:31 UTC, sha256 `20e95cba17fee3f184bd52fd045c1577dad365bffd0f71efb63e56d56fb88ba1`)

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- [OAuth2 authorization responses now include the iss parameter](https://harbyn.com/changes/discord/2026-10-14-oauth2-authorization-responses-now-include-iss.md) (Behavior change, announced Oct 14, 2026)

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