Starting on November 16, 2026, conversations in Discoverable Servers will be easier to find for people searching the web. Admins can choose which channels are surfaced on the web. Private servers, DMs, and GDMs are not included.
Wow this is actually great. Still doesn’t excuse groups using Discord instead of traditional forums, because traditional forums are still browsable without an account. But the lack of indexing has been such a huge flaw with public groups using Discord. Addressing that issue goes a long way to making Discord a less shit platform for open source apps, games, etc. to run their support from.
I’m confused how this will work tho. If I click on a search result that goes to discord will it take me to somewhere I can see it? I don’t have a discord account. If it going to just take you to a login screen? I can’t click reddit results anymore since they block VPN traffic without an account. So it seems like search results are just becoming less useful.
If I click on a search result that goes to discord will it take me to somewhere I can see it?
I assume not, which is why I still think this is worse than using normal forums. You’ll probably get a link to join the relevant server, and will probably require a Discord account to do it.
Which is very annoying and unfortunate, but is a huge step up from all that content being entirely undiscoverable.
It’s possible that someone could write a bot that displays a mirror more exactly. Not sure how easy it’ll be to both do that and not get taken down, though.
I mean for me personally this is worse because I will not make a discord account so the content is still unusable but now my search results are full of detritus.
I think you can tell most search engines to remove results from one particular source? So it should end up the same for you? If you can’t do it natively, there are definitely extensions that’ll do that.
Wow this is actually great. Still doesn’t excuse groups using Discord instead of traditional forums, because traditional forums are still browsable without an account. But the lack of indexing has been such a huge flaw with public groups using Discord. Addressing that issue goes a long way to making Discord a less shit platform for open source apps, games, etc. to run their support from.
I’m confused how this will work tho. If I click on a search result that goes to discord will it take me to somewhere I can see it? I don’t have a discord account. If it going to just take you to a login screen? I can’t click reddit results anymore since they block VPN traffic without an account. So it seems like search results are just becoming less useful.
FTFY
I assume not, which is why I still think this is worse than using normal forums. You’ll probably get a link to join the relevant server, and will probably require a Discord account to do it.
Which is very annoying and unfortunate, but is a huge step up from all that content being entirely undiscoverable.
It’s possible that someone could write a bot that displays a mirror more exactly. Not sure how easy it’ll be to both do that and not get taken down, though.
I mean for me personally this is worse because I will not make a discord account so the content is still unusable but now my search results are full of detritus.
I think you can tell most search engines to remove results from one particular source? So it should end up the same for you? If you can’t do it natively, there are definitely extensions that’ll do that.