Discord Opens Up Public Chats to the Web
Discord just dropped news that has people talking. Starting November 16 big public servers with a thousand or more members get their own web pages. Those pages will show summaries of what is being discussed in open channels. Then around mid December actual messages from those public channels can start showing up in Google results and other search engines.
Admins get full control and can turn it off for the whole server or just certain channels. Regular users can also head into their privacy settings and stop their own messages from appearing. Only new posts after the rollout count and no usernames or profile pictures go with them. Private servers and direct messages stay completely locked down.
This could make game guides tips and community answers way easier to find without joining anything. At the same time a lot of folks are already thinking about old late night rants or random debates suddenly being searchable by anyone. The feature is rolling out gradually so there is still time to check those settings if you want.
