Discord Allows Search Engines to Index Some Public Chat Content

Discord has announced that it will allow search engines like Google to index chat content from certain large public servers. This applies to discoverable servers with at least 1,000 members that are listed in the Discord public directory and can be joined without an invitation. Starting from November 16, these servers will have public web pages that may include summaries of discussions in public channels; from mid-December, individual messages from eligible channels may appear in search results. Historical messages published before the feature goes live will not be included, and public messages will not display usernames or avatars. Users can disable the option to show messages from discoverable channels in their user settings, and this setting will apply to all discoverable servers they have joined. If a user leaves a server after the feature is launched, only messages sent after leaving will be protected; to remove previously eligible public messages, they must be deleted in Discord, although search engine caches may still retain them for a period of time. This feature is not available to teenage users and is turned off by default in regions such as the EU, UK, Canada, and South Korea. Server administrators can prevent messages from appearing on public web pages and search results for the entire server or for individual channels through server settings, and they can also disable discussion summaries individually.

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