So discord is becoming more and more like a forum replacement? This feels like the same direction they've already been going in with more server and community features. It is also being used more and more as a forum but without a lot of the features that make forums good, like them usually being open, while discord isnt, or wasnt. This just makes me wonder what discord is trying to be... a private chatroom like it started out as or some kind of forum like reddit?

Hopefully this mission confusion makes people look for alternatives.

I really like these changes. I know quite a few people who refuse to use Discord for obvious reasons I don't think I have to elaborate on, especially in this community. So soon they can still read about what is going on without having to create an account and join the server.

Another positive note is that these pages might be indexed by search engines, so answers that previously only could be found on Discord by joining the respective server and searching there are now more accessible to everyone.

Of course the primary intent is to show non-discord users what they are missing out on and therefore get them to join the plattform, driving up user numbers, but it still does bring some benefits to everyone as well.

Is there a way to disable it? I don't see the settings they mention in the article, but it does say my server is discoverable.

This absolutely means Google is going to use the messages to train Gemini.

edit: rather, whatever LLM Discord will be using to "summarize messages" will be using them as training data. Not sure which one they're using.

What the fuck? At least have some LLM summarize conversations… Whatever, it’s not like Discord has any consideration for user privacy