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There is talk about allowing public/discoverable servers to be indexed.

I don't know when those plans might materialize, but it is very much top of mind for us that there is ever growing knowledge on Discord that isn't accessible via search indexes.

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I'm already coming across more and more communities who say "For more information/to download the example files/to see our FAQ just join our Discord!", which is an immediate turnoff. I'm not going to "join a discord" just to see an FAQ or download some prerelease build or something else.

Now even entire communities are going to move onto Discord and become completely unreachable for people like me who don't want to "join the community" just to read one post that one person wrote one time.

I also feel that "just" is very much an understatement when it means "sign up for a service that doesn't play nice with anonymous networks (Tor) and often requires to share and verify your phone number".

I'm hugely relieved that you see the black box as a situation to be addressed. For me, that circumstance alone turns Discord from a neat and useful tool into a tragedy that I'm forced to live with, and I'd love to see it move into the former category

Hopefully distinct from mere searchability: how about integrating a wiki service for big/boosted servers?

This would be a huge boost in adoption!

But how would it rank on google? At first there would be few to any links to content from discord.

That sounds like Google's problem?

I imagine they'd figure it out pretty quickly given the size and popularity of discord.

I think with the amount of internal linking and original content it would start to rank pretty quickly. At least if the scrape algorithm makes any sense at all.

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