Server Update: Better Discovery & Emoji Tracking
Summary
Mr. Anoop's server announces search improvements to surface relevant servers even without exact tags, enhanced emoji discovery and tracking, and fixes to ad display so paid placements boost visibility. The team is also upgrading backend infrastructure and the database and exploring revenue sharing for emoji page ads to help smaller servers monetize.
Quick update on what we are working on now
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Server listing: You don't see it yet, but we are working on a much better search system to surface the right Discord servers when people are searching.
For example, if you have Discord announcements or forums or descriptions that mention music a lot, but you didn't tag yourself "music", you will still show up when people search for music.
Over time, we expect many more servers to be discovered, regardless of tags. -
We've done some investigation about the discrepancy between our website visits vs server listing ads and fixed the bugs. If you decide to spend $15 to show up in the front row, your emojis will also be discovered much more frequently on our emojis page. In a way, people can discover your server via your description and via your emojis.
On a separate note, we have installed a proper tracking mechanism to let you know when someone visits and downloads your emoji Discord pages. If we decide to do ads on those page, we will share the ads revenue with you 🙂
- Finally, we are still working on a backend update, optimizing our infra, and upgrading our database; we expect this to be a on-going effort for the whole month.
Some side notes:
1. One of our major efforts for this year is to get more servers discovered by the right people (at the right time). An ideal scenario is that when someone is searching for a particular topic, for example, about Ramen, we will recommend our #channel channel as long as it is semi-active. To do this requires us to significantly upgrade our backend.
2. We want to help smaller servers monetize.
I know most of you don't want to make money for the sake of it, but a little community funding to give your members free nitros and pay voluntary mods will go a long way toward making sure you can continue to serve your members over the long term.
This means that if you allow us to publish announcements and forum content on your public server listing page and the page has ads, we will start sharing ad revenue with you. It's still in its infancy, but we are making plans to make it happen. (This also means that we will beef up moderation more).
