Discord Makes Content on Discoverable Servers Searchable on Google and Other

Discord has apparently realized that more and more companies and game studios have moved content, like announcements, guides, and product support, that would ordinarily have been hosted on blogs and forums to official Discord servers, effectively locking that content behind a Discord account and making it extraordinarily difficult to find in some cases. In response, the chat service provider has officially announced the roll-out of Server Web Pages in an effort to make discoverable Discord servers—those publicly available servers often used for support and announcements—more easily discoverable using search engines, like Google and DuckDuckGo.

Prior to Discord's launch, message boards were common, ranging from community-driven forums to official ones run by game studios. These message boards excelled at hosting long-form, structured conversations about helping people, theory crafting, and more. While they still exist today, many have moved into Discord servers. This has led to valuable information being locked in Discord conversations, inaccessible to the wider internet. We want to fix this.

Read full story