Discord plans to add automated chat summaries to searchable server web pages from November 16, 2026. Individual messages could follow from mid-December. Members and server admins will have different controls over what appears.
The company announced the change on October 27. It applies only to Discoverable Servers, public communities listed in Discord's server directory. Anyone can join them without an invite. Private servers, direct messages and group direct messages are excluded.
Under the web page rules, every Discoverable Server will have a public page from November 16. Discord will create one from the server's profile if its admins have not set one up. Summaries can cover conversations from that date onward.
Individual messages have a later cutoff. Discord says messages sent before the mid-December start will not be included. The rollout will be gradual, so the first messages may take several weeks to appear. Usernames and avatars will not appear alongside them.
A member's choice applies when they send each message, according to Discord's member rules. Once the rollout starts, a member might send a message while the setting is on. Switching it off later will not block that message. It could still appear on the web. The switch blocks future messages across all their Discoverable Servers. To keep an earlier eligible message off Discord's web pages, it must be deleted from Discord.
That member switch does not turn off channel summaries. Admins control those separately, along with which channels can supply individual messages. Both content features are on by default at the server level. Admins can turn either off or exclude channels. Private channels, including those restricted to certain roles, are excluded.
In most regions, the member setting starts on. It starts off in the European Union and European Economic Area. The same applies in the UK, Canada, Brazil, Australia and South Korea. Accounts in Discord's teen age group cannot enable it. Channels that take part will carry a label before members post.
Turning off both content features leaves the server's public page in place while it remains Discoverable. Deleting a message removes it from Discord's web pages. Search engines may keep cached copies, so removal from their results can take extra time or a separate request.