Discord will put public server messages into web search from December

Discord will put public server messages into web search from December

27 October 2026: Discord will start publishing messages from the public channels of its largest open servers to the web, where search engines can find them, from mid-December 2026. Before that, on 16 November, every Discoverable Server gets a public Server Web Page with automated summaries of what its channels are discussing. Admins and members can opt out from now, and unless an admin changes the settings, public channels are included.

Which servers are affected

The change applies only to Discoverable Servers: servers with at least 1,000 members, at least eight weeks old, that meet Discord's activity and safety requirements and whose admins chose to list them in Server Discovery. Private servers, direct messages and group chats are not included. That still covers a good share of the product communities, developer support servers and user groups that software companies run on Discord.

The two dates

From 16 November, every Discoverable Server will have a Server Web Page, created by default if the admins have not set one up. The page may show Channel Summaries, automated summaries of active conversations from that date onwards, without usernames or avatars. Admins can choose which channels feed them, curate what is shown, or turn them off.

From mid-December, Channel Messages begin a gradual rollout: answers members posted in public channels can appear on the Server Web Page and in web search, in their own words, again without usernames or avatars. Messages sent before mid-December are never included. Channels that can appear on the web will be labelled, so members know before they post.

Who controls what

Admins choose per channel in Server Settings, Web Presence, or opt every channel out. Members have one setting in User Settings, Data and Privacy, which covers their messages in every Discoverable Server. Two details matter for anyone running a community:

• the member setting does not control Channel Summaries, which are generated from broader channel activity;
• messages shown while a member's setting was on stay up unless the member deletes them from Discord.

The member default depends on country. In the EU, the UK, Canada, Brazil, Australia and South Korea it is off "given legal restrictions", so those members' messages appear only if they turn it on; teenage users are excluded entirely. Everywhere else it is on unless the member turns it off.

For companies that run a server

A support server where customers post error logs, account details or screenshots of internal systems is now a public web property by default. Before 16 November, a community team should decide which channels belong on the web, opt the rest out, and tell members what changes; Discord's own example is a question-and-answer channel whose answers it wants search engines to find. Teams that want the search traffic will find the default does most of the work, but only for members outside the six opt-in markets.

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Sources

• Discord: Making content from Discoverable Servers easier to discover, 27 October 2026