Over the last decade, Discord has become the de facto community space for gaming, and there are a lot of huge servers out there that you can find by scrolling through its public servers page. But starting on November 16, some messages in these huge servers will be viewable from Google.
  • iamthetot@piefed.caEnglish
    131·
    19 hours ago

    This was probably one of the top three criticisms I heard against Discord, so this seems like a positive move to me.

    • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      The actual message content will probably still be hidden behind a login wall.

      • iamthetot@piefed.caEnglish
        51·
        5 hours ago

        No need to speculate, there’s an article with valuable information on this very topic linked in the OP.

        In a blog post, Discord laid out its plans to publish ‘Server Web Pages’ for every discoverable server on Discord by default. These are bespoke web pages that give a preview of a server’s contents before forcing users to hit the join button. There are already several of these pages live, typically for huge online games like Rust or Dead by Daylight. These pages will be discoverable on Google, and will display a summary of the discussions going on in the server.

        But while these Server Web Pages will be going live next month, another update is coming in December that’ll allow answers to questions to appear in Google search. According to the blog post, “Answers to questions your members sent in public channels can be found in a web search, in their own words. Server admins decide which channels take part, and server members can choose whether their own messages appear. Usernames and avatars will not be shown alongside these messages.”