The Username Change Is A Failure on Discord's Part

Genuinely, the username change is a complete failure of Discord's management of the application.

If users don't know what a discriminator is, and that's not even the majority according to them, that is a failure on Discord's part to teach the user how to use their app.

If people can't remember their discriminators or have trouble saying their usernames/discriminators out loud due to typing problems, what's stopping them from simply showing the other person their Discord profile? What's stopping them from sending a screenshot to the other person?

Not to mention, how does this new change make it any easier for anyone to have usernames when someone can't have the username "john" because it's already been taken? Now they have to do something like "john12345", which is functionally the same thing as a discriminator in the first place, or even worse, if all those numbers are already taken up because there were already #9999 users using the "John" name on Discord already and now that username can't be transferred to the new update, then someone is going to have to over-complicate their username into something incomprehensible, like "x_jo_h_n_x45".

I'm sure Discord thought about the change a lot and only did this to appease shareholders or something along the lines. They do not care about what the userbase actually wants.

If you want to improve the username system, then how about starting with not allowing strange fonts that people can't normally type in? Allow other languages, but don't allow people to make fonts that just do not exist on a keyboard so that people can ping them or add them as a friend. THAT is one of the biggest problems in Discord usernames right now. But will they fix that? No.

This is all just showing that Discord doesn't care about its userbase at all. People are already showing that the username failure was *supposed* to prioritize older users, but when someone who has been on Discord for many years tried to type in the username that they've had on every social media profile for years, it didn't work. When they tried to add the person, there was nobody with their username.

On every account, this is a display of Discord fumbling and failing to provide the kind of application that users signed up for in the first place, and I am deeply disappointed.

I am legitimately considering canceling my Nitro subscription over this.

Moriy

23. Mai 2023 14:05

I was Nitro subscriber for years, my renewal would have been around end of May but the Company lost me with their unwillingness to listen or even acknowledge our frustrations.

This Username has been my Identity during the pandemic and they're deleting it

Chrona

23. Mai 2023 15:47

This change is honestly one of the most frustrating things I've seen co.e from discord.

I'm not changing my name, and if it isn't avaliable, I'm going to keep adding digits until I get it. And unlike an assigned discriminator, it's probably going to be 6 or 7 digits long, unlike the 4 or 5 if they increased the cap. And yeah, it's going to keep going until someone has john174929437

They could have leaned into the discriminator, and created friend codes, like nintendo, or even steam does it now! But no, they've leaned towards worst of all worlds

This solution is only really viable for early users, and becomes exponentially less useable the longer a service exists.

23. Mai 2023 17:13

EXACTLY. it's an awful update and i hope they roll it back at some point, but honestly i don't see them doing that any time soon. they really and truly do not care. that's why i'm personally considering canceling my nitro subscription. i probably will. if you or other users in this thread have one, i urge to to also consider it. maybe if we hurt them where they actually care--their wallet--then maybe, just MAYBE, they'll finally listen to us when we say we don't fucking like this update.

MissLeaP

26. Mai 2023 06:09

Agreed, they don't remove discriminators. All they're doing is making the discriminators a LOT more random and less streamlined. This is a HUGE step backwards. Welcome back to the dark ages of the internet I guess. Discord must be run by people in their early 20s or something.

Falcolmreynolds

7. Juni 2023 03:24

Just FYI - in the public survey that's been put out (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSO_YpkKZ27ybQaBWVu6fHr3iStgadQeGmP7gHPlQZeaP26A/viewform?usp=sf_link if you haven't taken it yet!!!) 94.8% of polled users DID IN FACT know what a discriminator did prior to the announcement of their removal. Discord lied about their stats.

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