Wow this is actually great. Still doesn’t excuse groups using Discord instead of traditional forums, because traditional forums are still browsable without an account. But the lack of indexing has been such a huge flaw with public groups using Discord. Addressing that issue goes a long way to making Discord a less shit platform for open source apps, games, etc. to run their support from.
As much as I would normally hate something like this, the way so many projects are based on discord (and how unsearchable discord messages are) make this really convenient
Probably the worst solution, but maybe it’ll also get people off discord?
You can bet they’re selling it to AI companies for training, too.
They‘re Discord. They‘re selling all their data in basically real time to anyone who wants it. If there‘s a Discord user someone wants to know more about they can just pay like 5 bucks to a service and get their entire chat history. That stuff is automated.
they are trying to fill the reddit void for search ability and usability. they will reneg and disable it over profit somewhere
What about past comments on a server that was public before this change came into place? I have no idea if any of the servers I commented on roughly 6 years ago were public. They were free servers for people playing WoW, and some had passwords and some didn’t. I didn’t make any controversial comments, but I also didn’t (knowingly) consent to anything I typed being publicly searchable.
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Oh fuck
