Discord Makes Public Servers More Discoverable via Search
Starting November 16, servers will receive web pages that may display automated summaries, and from mid-December, messages may appear in search engines.
This applies to communities that administrators have added to the Server Discovery catalog. There are over 63,000 such servers, where users discuss games, language learning, and specialized topics.
Administrators will be able to select channels to participate in the program, while users can opt out of having their messages displayed in search results. Published materials will not show usernames or avatars; private servers, direct messages, and group chats are unaffected.
The update has raised questions about privacy and the potential use of discussions for training artificial intelligence models. In the EU, UK, Canada, Brazil, Australia, and South Korea, message publication is disabled by default, and the feature is unavailable to teenagers.
