Hate The New Usernames

Hate the new username system. I hate the point of "Oh well if there were 9999 people with the same username then you couldn't get it!" so you just made it so One person would get it? That's just awesome for the other 9998 people, isn't it? What would be the problem with like...adding more numbers to the end? Additionally, it just screws everyone over who Doesn't use a Latin alphabet! Which is a Lot of languages, a lot of people this app services. Also I've already seen username hoarding.

Also, this just makes it harder for people to make accounts. I remember being a kid and being so frustrated making accounts on sites when I'd have to try dozens of usernames to actually get one. Discord's system actually made sense before!

The thing in the post about how people didn't know about discriminators? I just get the feeling that data was skewed. Everywhere for adding friends always mentioned it on the page. I had never come across anyone who didn't know about it, even new people, and I've been on the app since 2015. Basically everyone I know had their Name and Discriminator Memorized. I'd make friends in real life and be able to give it to them easy. Now I, and everyone else who had theirs memorized, has to override that.

There was this experiment that Coke did once. They did a taste test, and made their soda taste more like Pepsi. The people who didn't like Pepsi and drank Coke to drink Coke? Stopped drinking it! People who liked Pepsi? Stuck with Pepsi!  We like Discord for Discord. If we wanted something with Usernames we would have stuck with Skype or Teamspeak back then.

None of this makes sense except to make Discord more like a social media app! Which isn't what most people want. We want a *chat app*. Having usernames makes it less private, too. Having the numbers made sure that even if you used your like..usual URL for a site, people would still have to ask you to find your account! Now if you keep everything the same, anyone could find you.

I've had Nitro for years, but this actually made me want to cancel. I've not met anyone who likes this change. I know dozens who hate it. With all this backlash people would think you would listen, but it's not happening!

In summary. This sucks. Everyone I know hates it. I wish we'd be listened to.