Comment by freediver

3 years ago

There are several issues with surfacing search results from Discord as mentioned before in the thread, and even if all of them are resolved the biggest one remains relevance.

Unless a general purpose web search engine introduces a special Discord 'tab', like Images/News/Videos already exist, there is no way for a search engine to assign relevance to anything said on Discord because there is no authority or link graph based credibility for any message. In other words a mention of 'blue widgets' on Discord is competing with milions of web pages mentioning 'blue widgets' which all have some kind of built in relevance. If the idea is that this will be achieved through people linking to an aggregrator like this website, then perhaps, but the approach does suffer from the chickien and the egg problem.

I'm mostly interested in surfacing content on pretty specific topics with clear keywords.

But also either answeroverflow.com will gain some domain authority over time, or the communities will be hosted on domains that already have some.