Messages in certain large public Discord servers will be searchable on the web after December

What once would've been a forum or wiki is often now a Discord server, and that's created a problem: valuable information is hidden away deep in the chat logs of big public Discord channels, rather than in easy-to-search forum pages on the web.

Discord now aims to solve that problem by making discussions in some of its biggest public servers searchable on the web.

The change will only apply to "Discoverable Servers," which refers to certain large public Discord servers with 1,000 or more users. The admins of those specially-designated servers will be able to opt out of search engine discoverability, and individual users can also opt out of allowing their messages in those servers to be searchable on the web. The change does not affect any invite-only servers or DMs.

"Prior to Discord's launch, message boards were common, ranging from community-driven forums to official ones run by game studios," reads a blog post from Discord. …