I Started Building a Discord Server Directory
I’ve spent a lot of time around Discord communities, and one thing has always bothered me.
Finding a good Discord server is harder than it should be.
There are thousands of communities for gaming, anime, roleplay, technology, social groups and pretty much every niche you can think of. But finding the right one usually means jumping between invite links, old posts, server lists and search results.
At some point I thought, why not build a better way to discover them?
That’s how I started working on Dizord.
The first version was pretty simple. I wanted a place where a server could be listed, people could discover it, and everything could be organized around interests instead of just one giant list of servers.
Then the project started getting bigger.
More servers meant more categories and tags. More tags meant better search and filtering. Server information changes constantly, so keeping listings updated became another problem to solve.
I’m building the backend with Laravel and working with the Discord API to handle server information and synchronization. There are also a lot of small things behind the scenes that aren't obvious when you simply open a server listing page.
One of the things I'm currently working on is making discovery better for smaller communities. A server shouldn't need tens of thousands of members just to be discoverable.
The goal is pretty simple:
Make it easier to find a Discord community you'll actually want to stay in.
The project is still evolving, but the current version is live:
I'm still experimenting with search, categorization, server activity and ways to make a large directory useful instead of overwhelming.
If you're building a directory, marketplace, or any project with thousands of constantly changing pages, I'd also be interested in hearing how you handle discovery and indexing at scale.
