Over the last decade, Discord has become the de facto community space for gaming, and there are a lot of huge servers out there that you can find by scrolling through its public servers page. But starting on November 16, some messages in these huge servers will be viewable from Google.

In a blog post, Discord laid out its plans to publish 'Server Web Pages' for every discoverable server on Discord by default. These are bespoke web pages that give a preview of a server's contents before forcing users to hit the join button. There are already several of these pages live, typically for huge online games like Rust or Dead by Daylight. These pages will be discoverable on Google, and will display a summary of the discussions going on in the server.

But while these 'Server Web Pages' will be going live next month, another update is coming in December, that'll allow answers to questions to appear in Google search. According to the blog post, "answers to questions your members sent in public channels can be found in a web search, in their own words. Server admins decide which channels take part, and server members can choose whether their own messages appear. Usernames and avatars will not be shown alongside these messages."

It's important to note that only large discoverable servers will be affected by these changes, meaning your World of Warcraft guild or friend group probably won't be affected in any way. Discoverable server admins can opt out their servers or even individual channels by going to Server Settings, then Web Presence and choosing which channels you want to be visible.

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