>Discord wishes to open up to Google

they aren't opening up to google specifically. any search engine will be able to index the content on the server web pages.

>but knowing the financial incentives at hand and why Discord might be opening up.

one of the biggest complaints about discord (other than all of the grooming and such) is that communities move to discord and then all of their (previously freely available) information is locked behind a login.

addressing a big complaint that many people have about your service is a good financial move.

>one of the biggest complaints about discord (other than all of the grooming and such) is that communities move to discord and then all of their (previously freely available) information is locked behind a login.

Based on what I've read, there will be a short summary then you are given the login page. Not unlike a paywalled news website. Still an improvement, but it does not fully address this criticism.

> they aren't opening up to google specifically. any search engine will be able to index the content on the server web pages.

My apologies. I didn't see that and skimmed through the web-page and I thought that it was a discord-google specific deal.

> one of the biggest complaints about discord (other than all of the grooming and such) is that communities move to discord and then all of their (previously freely available) information is locked behind a login.

> addressing a big complaint that many people have about your service is a good financial move.

True, that can very well be the case but my question of AI training still stands. Couldn't this make many discord texts/discussions part of AI training corpus and AI models as has been the case for many such situations.

I but am just slightly worried about all the AI training that can happen but other than that, its a good change!