Surface discord channels in search

N_e_r_b

I know Discord is a closed environment, but so many conversations and so much information that used to be posted on reddit or other forums has been moving into discord over the past few years. Even kagi info! I think there should be a way to reflect this in fact in Kagi. Maybe a bang that surfaces discord channels where an answer might be found?

A user wants an answer to their question about a product's technical documentation, and can't find it on stackoverflow or the web. So instead they try searching for the manufacturer's discord channel so they can ask the developers directly. They go to Kagi, select the discord bang, and type in the product name - the top result is the main discord and the remaining links are topic-related community discords that may also be relevant to that product.

theDoctor

I'm with you in spirit, but this one is rough, technically speaking. Unlike a forum or any public website, you can't freely browse Discord servers and their content, even if they are public/community and open to join.

This makes creating an index of content next to impossible without a dedicated and custom Discord bot that would have to be invited by server owners who want it to index their server's content. It wouldn't surprise me if this is against Discord's TOS as well (even if done with a verified bot).

Additionally, even if the content were to be indexed, in order to fully access the content, an individual would then:

Need to have, and be logged into, a Discord account
Join the server (the bot in question would need to also handle this process, and if at any time permissions are changed, access is revoked, etc., the benefit of the index is gone)
Then click on the link to be taken to the content in question

And this isn't even taking into account the need to filter out massive amounts of non-information. Forums are moderated, organized, and not 'real-time' like a chat platform. Even looking at Discord communities that contain valuable information, I would guess that the ratio of good:bad data is orders of magnitude in difference.

It's unfortunate that so many support groups are moving from forums or other open solutions to walled gardens that make surfacing information nearly impossible. This problem is talked about on the /r/DataHoarder subreddit semi-regularly. https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/125z4kt/the_impact_of_discord_on_data_archiving/#:~:text=Discord%20is,in%20google%2C

I wish it weren't so, but I'm guessing that this will never happen.