Conversations in Discord’s most open communities are set to reach a wider audience. Every Discoverable Server will receive a web page on November 16, with the option to display AI summaries of public discussions. A second stage, beginning in mid-December, will bring selected member messages onto those pages, making them eligible to appear in Google and other search engines.

More than 63,000 communities fall into this category, which allows anyone to join without an invitation. Eligibility requires at least 1,000 members, a server age of eight weeks or more, and compliance with Discord’s activity and safety requirements. Message publishing and summaries are enabled by default in server settings, while administrators select the public channels that participate.

How the November and December rollout will work

Eligible communities have previously been able to create a server web page voluntarily. From November 16, every Discoverable Server will have one. Where a community has not created its own page, Discord will generate a default version from its existing server profile. Anyone will be able to view the page, and search engines may surface it in results.

These pages may also display Channel Summaries, AI-generated overviews of recent conversations in public channels. Summaries will cover discussions from November 16 onward and will omit usernames. Discord cautions that the generated text can be inaccurate. Administrators have until November 16 to review channel settings before summaries can start appearing.

The next phase starts in mid-December, when selected public-channel messages will gradually become available on the web. They will retain the authors’ wording but appear without usernames or avatars. Because the rollout is gradual, the first messages may take a few weeks to arrive. Messages posted before mid-December will not be included.

Threads and forum posts can also contribute messages if their parent channel is public and participating. Private threads and private forums remain excluded regardless of the parent channel’s settings. Messages will initially be displayed as text only.

What administrators can control

Administrators will manage the features under Community > Web Presence. Channel Messages and Channel Summaries each have a separate switch and channel list, allowing communities to control original-message publishing independently of AI summaries. Private channels, including those restricted to specific roles, are always excluded.

Turning off messages or summaries does not remove the server’s web page. The page stays available while the server remains discoverable. Removing access requires an administrator to disable discoverability itself, returning the community to a regular Community Server.

How members can control message publishing

A single option under User Settings > Data & Privacy will determine whether a member’s messages can appear on the web. The choice applies across every Discoverable Server that person has joined.

Publishing will be enabled by default in most regions. It will start disabled for users in the European Union and European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Australia and South Korea. Teen accounts are excluded from the feature.

The personal setting governs messages only. It does not stop a server from generating discussion summaries; administrators must disable those separately. Opting out also affects only messages posted afterward. Previously published messages may remain visible until they are deleted.

Deleting a message removes it from both the application and the server web page. Discord cannot guarantee, however, that search engines will immediately remove indexed or cached copies.

How Discord is preparing the pages for search

Discord’s robots.txt lists sitemaps for server pages and announcement pages, where content from pilot testing has already appeared. Channel Messages has been tested in gaming communities including NBA 2K, Rust and Dead by Daylight. Every message published during those tests was written by an administrator or moderator.

As of October 29, the Dead by Daylight server page contained ProfilePage structured data. Google introduced support for this markup in November 2023 alongside discussion forum markup. Discord’s server-page guidance encourages administrators to describe their communities precisely and specifically so people can find them through search.

On October 29, robots.txt contained no rules specifically addressing AI crawlers, and its general restrictions did not cover the server-page and announcement-page paths. The announcement and three related help pages also did not discuss AI crawlers or model training.

Discord denies selling messages to AI companies. Its explanation is that the update makes content easier to discover when administrators and users choose to make it available on the web. That response does not separately clarify AI crawler access or model training.

What this means for communities and search

Discord points to character builds, strategies and boss guides as examples of answers that could reach people outside a server. Search results already show interest in community discussions: Ahrefs data reported in August placed public Facebook Groups second to Reddit among sites appearing in Google’s Discussions and forums results.

Some server pages can already appear in search. The new development is the gradual availability of members’ actual answers from mid-December. Once those messages arrive, it will be possible to check whether the pages gain discussion forum markup alongside the ProfilePage markup already in use.

For administrators, November 16 is the immediate deadline for reviewing which channels can feed AI summaries. Members should bear in mind that opting out of message publishing neither removes previously published text nor disables summaries at the server level.

Conversations in Discord’s most open communities are set to reach a wider audience. Every Discoverable Server will receive a web page on November 16, with the option to display AI summaries of public discussions. A second stage, beginning in mid-December, will bring selected member messages onto those pages, making them eligible to appear in Google and other search engines.

More than 63,000 communities fall into this category, which allows anyone to join without an invitation. Eligibility requires at least 1,000 members, a server age of eight weeks or more, and compliance with Discord’s activity and safety requirements. Message publishing and summaries are enabled by default in server settings, while administrators select the public channels that participate.

How the November and December rollout will work

Eligible communities have previously been able to create a server web page voluntarily. From November 16, every Discoverable Server will have one. Where a community has not created its own page, Discord will generate a default version from its existing server profile. Anyone will be able to view the page, and search engines may surface it in results.

These pages may also display Channel Summaries, AI-generated overviews of recent conversations in public channels. Summaries will cover discussions from November 16 onward and will omit usernames. Discord cautions that the generated text can be inaccurate. Administrators have until November 16 to review channel settings before summaries can start appearing.

The next phase starts in mid-December, when selected public-channel messages will gradually become available on the web. They will retain the authors’ wording but appear without usernames or avatars. Because the rollout is gradual, the first messages may take a few weeks to arrive. Messages posted before mid-December will not be included.

Threads and forum posts can also contribute messages if their parent channel is public and participating. Private threads and private forums remain excluded regardless of the parent channel’s settings. Messages will initially be displayed as text only.

What administrators can control

Administrators will manage the features under Community > Web Presence. Channel Messages and Channel Summaries each have a separate switch and channel list, allowing communities to control original-message publishing independently of AI summaries. Private channels, including those restricted to specific roles, are always excluded.

Turning off messages or summaries does not remove the server’s web page. The page stays available while the server remains discoverable. Removing access requires an administrator to disable discoverability itself, returning the community to a regular Community Server.

How members can control message publishing

A single option under User Settings > Data & Privacy will determine whether a member’s messages can appear on the web. The choice applies across every Discoverable Server that person has joined.

Publishing will be enabled by default in most regions. It will start disabled for users in the European Union and European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Australia and South Korea. Teen accounts are excluded from the feature.

The personal setting governs messages only. It does not stop a server from generating discussion summaries; administrators must disable those separately. Opting out also affects only messages posted afterward. Previously published messages may remain visible until they are deleted.

Deleting a message removes it from both the application and the server web page. Discord cannot guarantee, however, that search engines will immediately remove indexed or cached copies.

How Discord is preparing the pages for search

Discord’s robots.txt lists sitemaps for server pages and announcement pages, where content from pilot testing has already appeared. Channel Messages has been tested in gaming communities including NBA 2K, Rust and Dead by Daylight. Every message published during those tests was written by an administrator or moderator.

As of October 29, the Dead by Daylight server page contained ProfilePage structured data. Google introduced support for this markup in November 2023 alongside discussion forum markup. Discord’s server-page guidance encourages administrators to describe their communities precisely and specifically so people can find them through search.

On October 29, robots.txt contained no rules specifically addressing AI crawlers, and its general restrictions did not cover the server-page and announcement-page paths. The announcement and three related help pages also did not discuss AI crawlers or model training.

Discord denies selling messages to AI companies. Its explanation is that the update makes content easier to discover when administrators and users choose to make it available on the web. That response does not separately clarify AI crawler access or model training.

What this means for communities and search

Discord points to character builds, strategies and boss guides as examples of answers that could reach people outside a server. Search results already show interest in community discussions: Ahrefs data reported in August placed public Facebook Groups second to Reddit among sites appearing in Google’s Discussions and forums results.

Some server pages can already appear in search. The new development is the gradual availability of members’ actual answers from mid-December. Once those messages arrive, it will be possible to check whether the pages gain discussion forum markup alongside the ProfilePage markup already in use.

For administrators, November 16 is the immediate deadline for reviewing which channels can feed AI summaries. Members should bear in mind that opting out of message publishing neither removes previously published text nor disables summaries at the server level.

Conversations in Discord’s most open communities are set to reach a wider audience. Every Discoverable Server will receive a web page on November 16, with the option to display AI summaries of public discussions. A second stage, beginning in mid-December, will bring selected member messages onto those pages, making them eligible to appear in Google and other search engines.

More than 63,000 communities fall into this category, which allows anyone to join without an invitation. Eligibility requires at least 1,000 members, a server age of eight weeks or more, and compliance with Discord’s activity and safety requirements. Message publishing and summaries are enabled by default in server settings, while administrators select the public channels that participate.

How the November and December rollout will work

Eligible communities have previously been able to create a server web page voluntarily. From November 16, every Discoverable Server will have one. Where a community has not created its own page, Discord will generate a default version from its existing server profile. Anyone will be able to view the page, and search engines may surface it in results.

These pages may also display Channel Summaries, AI-generated overviews of recent conversations in public channels. Summaries will cover discussions from November 16 onward and will omit usernames. Discord cautions that the generated text can be inaccurate. Administrators have until November 16 to review channel settings before summaries can start appearing.

The next phase starts in mid-December, when selected public-channel messages will gradually become available on the web. They will retain the authors’ wording but appear without usernames or avatars. Because the rollout is gradual, the first messages may take a few weeks to arrive. Messages posted before mid-December will not be included.

Threads and forum posts can also contribute messages if their parent channel is public and participating. Private threads and private forums remain excluded regardless of the parent channel’s settings. Messages will initially be displayed as text only.

What administrators can control

Administrators will manage the features under Community > Web Presence. Channel Messages and Channel Summaries each have a separate switch and channel list, allowing communities to control original-message publishing independently of AI summaries. Private channels, including those restricted to specific roles, are always excluded.

Turning off messages or summaries does not remove the server’s web page. The page stays available while the server remains discoverable. Removing access requires an administrator to disable discoverability itself, returning the community to a regular Community Server.

How members can control message publishing

A single option under User Settings > Data & Privacy will determine whether a member’s messages can appear on the web. The choice applies across every Discoverable Server that person has joined.

Publishing will be enabled by default in most regions. It will start disabled for users in the European Union and European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Australia and South Korea. Teen accounts are excluded from the feature.

The personal setting governs messages only. It does not stop a server from generating discussion summaries; administrators must disable those separately. Opting out also affects only messages posted afterward. Previously published messages may remain visible until they are deleted.

Deleting a message removes it from both the application and the server web page. Discord cannot guarantee, however, that search engines will immediately remove indexed or cached copies.

How Discord is preparing the pages for search

Discord’s robots.txt lists sitemaps for server pages and announcement pages, where content from pilot testing has already appeared. Channel Messages has been tested in gaming communities including NBA 2K, Rust and Dead by Daylight. Every message published during those tests was written by an administrator or moderator.

As of October 29, the Dead by Daylight server page contained ProfilePage structured data. Google introduced support for this markup in November 2023 alongside discussion forum markup. Discord’s server-page guidance encourages administrators to describe their communities precisely and specifically so people can find them through search.

On October 29, robots.txt contained no rules specifically addressing AI crawlers, and its general restrictions did not cover the server-page and announcement-page paths. The announcement and three related help pages also did not discuss AI crawlers or model training.

Discord denies selling messages to AI companies. Its explanation is that the update makes content easier to discover when administrators and users choose to make it available on the web. That response does not separately clarify AI crawler access or model training.

What this means for communities and search

Discord points to character builds, strategies and boss guides as examples of answers that could reach people outside a server. Search results already show interest in community discussions: Ahrefs data reported in August placed public Facebook Groups second to Reddit among sites appearing in Google’s Discussions and forums results.

Some server pages can already appear in search. The new development is the gradual availability of members’ actual answers from mid-December. Once those messages arrive, it will be possible to check whether the pages gain discussion forum markup alongside the ProfilePage markup already in use.

For administrators, November 16 is the immediate deadline for reviewing which channels can feed AI summaries. Members should bear in mind that opting out of message publishing neither removes previously published text nor disables summaries at the server level.

Conversations in Discord’s most open communities are set to reach a wider audience. Every Discoverable Server will receive a web page on November 16, with the option to display AI summaries of public discussions. A second stage, beginning in mid-December, will bring selected member messages onto those pages, making them eligible to appear in Google and other search engines.

More than 63,000 communities fall into this category, which allows anyone to join without an invitation. Eligibility requires at least 1,000 members, a server age of eight weeks or more, and compliance with Discord’s activity and safety requirements. Message publishing and summaries are enabled by default in server settings, while administrators select the public channels that participate.

How the November and December rollout will work

Eligible communities have previously been able to create a server web page voluntarily. From November 16, every Discoverable Server will have one. Where a community has not created its own page, Discord will generate a default version from its existing server profile. Anyone will be able to view the page, and search engines may surface it in results.

These pages may also display Channel Summaries, AI-generated overviews of recent conversations in public channels. Summaries will cover discussions from November 16 onward and will omit usernames. Discord cautions that the generated text can be inaccurate. Administrators have until November 16 to review channel settings before summaries can start appearing.

The next phase starts in mid-December, when selected public-channel messages will gradually become available on the web. They will retain the authors’ wording but appear without usernames or avatars. Because the rollout is gradual, the first messages may take a few weeks to arrive. Messages posted before mid-December will not be included.

Threads and forum posts can also contribute messages if their parent channel is public and participating. Private threads and private forums remain excluded regardless of the parent channel’s settings. Messages will initially be displayed as text only.

What administrators can control

Administrators will manage the features under Community > Web Presence. Channel Messages and Channel Summaries each have a separate switch and channel list, allowing communities to control original-message publishing independently of AI summaries. Private channels, including those restricted to specific roles, are always excluded.

Turning off messages or summaries does not remove the server’s web page. The page stays available while the server remains discoverable. Removing access requires an administrator to disable discoverability itself, returning the community to a regular Community Server.

How members can control message publishing

A single option under User Settings > Data & Privacy will determine whether a member’s messages can appear on the web. The choice applies across every Discoverable Server that person has joined.

Publishing will be enabled by default in most regions. It will start disabled for users in the European Union and European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Australia and South Korea. Teen accounts are excluded from the feature.

The personal setting governs messages only. It does not stop a server from generating discussion summaries; administrators must disable those separately. Opting out also affects only messages posted afterward. Previously published messages may remain visible until they are deleted.

Deleting a message removes it from both the application and the server web page. Discord cannot guarantee, however, that search engines will immediately remove indexed or cached copies.

How Discord is preparing the pages for search

Discord’s robots.txt lists sitemaps for server pages and announcement pages, where content from pilot testing has already appeared. Channel Messages has been tested in gaming communities including NBA 2K, Rust and Dead by Daylight. Every message published during those tests was written by an administrator or moderator.

As of October 29, the Dead by Daylight server page contained ProfilePage structured data. Google introduced support for this markup in November 2023 alongside discussion forum markup. Discord’s server-page guidance encourages administrators to describe their communities precisely and specifically so people can find them through search.

On October 29, robots.txt contained no rules specifically addressing AI crawlers, and its general restrictions did not cover the server-page and announcement-page paths. The announcement and three related help pages also did not discuss AI crawlers or model training.

Discord denies selling messages to AI companies. Its explanation is that the update makes content easier to discover when administrators and users choose to make it available on the web. That response does not separately clarify AI crawler access or model training.

What this means for communities and search

Discord points to character builds, strategies and boss guides as examples of answers that could reach people outside a server. Search results already show interest in community discussions: Ahrefs data reported in August placed public Facebook Groups second to Reddit among sites appearing in Google’s Discussions and forums results.

Some server pages can already appear in search. The new development is the gradual availability of members’ actual answers from mid-December. Once those messages arrive, it will be possible to check whether the pages gain discussion forum markup alongside the ProfilePage markup already in use.

For administrators, November 16 is the immediate deadline for reviewing which channels can feed AI summaries. Members should bear in mind that opting out of message publishing neither removes previously published text nor disables summaries at the server level.