Discord Will Put Messages From Big Public Servers on the Web Starting in December, With an Opt-Out

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Conversations in Discord’s biggest public communities are about to become a lot easier to find. In a post on its official blog, Discord announced Server Web Pages, a new feature that gives Discoverable servers a public page on the web, and said messages from those servers’ public channels will start showing up in web search results later this year.

The rollout comes in two stages. Server Web Pages go live on Nov. 16, 2026, for all Discoverable servers, which are communities with at least 1,000 members that have opted into Discord’s server discovery. Then, starting in mid-December, content from channels in those servers will gradually begin appearing in web search.

Discord says it is trying to unlock years of useful help, tips and theory crafting that currently lives behind a login. “While they still exist today, many have moved into Discord servers,” the company wrote of old-school message boards. “This has led to valuable information being locked in Discord conversations, inaccessible to the wider internet. We want to fix this.”

There are limits. Private servers, direct messages and group DMs are not included. Usernames and avatars will not be displayed next to messages, according to IGN. Discord also says summaries and searchable content will only cover activity from Nov. 16 onward, so older messages posted before the feature launches will not be pulled onto the web.

Server admins stay in control of what is shown. They can switch the feature off for the whole server or for individual channels by going to Server Settings and then Web Presence. If an admin does nothing, public channels in Discoverable servers will be included by default.

Individual members can opt out, too. In User Settings, under Data and Privacy, there is a toggle to stop your own message content from Discoverable channels from appearing on web pages, as PC Gamer explains. Anyone who spends time in large game communities may want to check that setting before December.

For players, the change could make official game servers a much bigger part of search results for patch questions, builds and bug fixes. It is the latest in a run of platform changes aimed at how people find and follow games, alongside moves such as Valve bringing its Steam personal calendar out of Labs.