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Is there a concrete reason that we can't build a search engine for discord public content? Archive it?

We used to do this for IRC as well. Anyone remembers https://ibot.rikers.org/?

It just needs to export to html every 24 hours and dump that on a server; then it's indexed by DDG and Google etc. It's not like that costs money or anything.

Good idea, and I suppose people wouldn't have a problem throwing yet another bot into their server. I'd imagine the data it's scraping to be IMMENSE considering Discord saves everything.

https://blog.discord.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-mess...

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