Discord will let search engines index public server messages
Original title: Discord to let search engines index public server messages
About 63,000 Discoverable Servers get public web pages from November 16; new-message indexing starts mid-December.
Discord will publish discussions from Discoverable Servers—public communities with at least 1,000 members—so web search engines can index them. Private servers, direct messages, and smaller servers are excluded. Server Web Pages appear on November 16, and eligible messages posted after the mid-December rollout may be indexed. Sharing is on by default except in the EU, the UK, Canada, Brazil, Australia, and South Korea, where users must opt in. Accounts under 18 cannot enable it.
- Discord says it hosts approximately 63,000 Discoverable Servers.
- Messages posted before the December release date are excluded.
- Admins must set a server private before November 16 to avoid a page.
- Users cannot retract past messages that already became public.
- Channel sharing can be turned off under Server Settings > Web Presence.
Impact: Public server messages may be indexed by web search engines
- 1.Set Discoverable Servers to private before November 16 to avoid Server Web Pages.
- 2.Turn off channel content sharing under Server Settings > Web Presence.
- 3.Stop future messages appearing via User Settings > Data and Privacy.
- Vendors
- Discord
From the original article
2 min read at bleepingcomputer.com
Discord will allow search engines to index discussions in Discoverable Servers and make them accessible on the web to users outside the platform without an account or invitation. [...]
By Bill Toulas · bleepingcomputer.com
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