You know the old internet lament about how forums have disappeared, making it harder to find answers for your very specific sicko tech support questions? It seems like Discord is trying to do something about that in what sounds like the worse way possible: by making messages in certain Discord servers searchable on the web.

Let me attempt to mitigate the full-body revulsion you likely just felt by explaining how it works. This new feature starts rolling out mid-December. That’s not comforting, huh? Okay, well, it’s opt-out by default! Nope, that isn’t much better either. Okay, how about this: The change only affects discoverable Discord servers, meaning public servers with over 1,000 members that you can join without needing an invite link. In its announcement, Discord also said admins on these discoverable servers can select which channels will show up in search results before the feature goes live.…