Discord to create search-indexable web pages for its most public servers
TLDR
Discord will give its most public servers individual web pages that search engines can show, and those pages may include AI summaries and some messages.
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Discord's most public servers will each get a web page that may carry AI-generated summaries and some messages that search engines can display, according to Search Engine Journal. The article does not say when the pages will launch or how servers are selected beyond being the most public ones.
How we got here
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