[Enshittification][DO NOT ADD] Discord Username System
Did you know? Discord is reworking/removing their partnership program (as it currently stands)
Hey there @everyone! Been about 2 months since I changed this post. And it's been a hot minute, but the username update has now been worked into Discord. No matter if we liked it or not. And people will now (forcefully) get used to it.
As a suprise, this idea has the MOST ever comments and votes recieved on a single post on the feedback platform EVER. The story around this event is the most interesting I have ever seen. And the gerne around it still hasn't ended either. We'll see where all of this goes.
On that note, I have been working on a little project regarding that, since Twitter, Discord, Reddit and Tiktok are heading all into the same route. Our own little enshittification.social! A mastodon instance for the enshittification of companies and they services they used to offfer. (Twitter, Unity, Discord, and so on)
Would you like to participate in an UNOFFCIAL poll? Click here!
(NOT affiliated with Discord in any way, shape or form)
We thank everyone for their votes, comments and joining our DIscord server and enshittification instance. The story of enshittification will never end and we can see that with the recent Unity Pricing changes.
I've recieved a press request through Discord, however I'm moving that to email, if any press wants to reach out about the update from someone willing to represent the entire discord community against this change, send an email here:
- press@stefanocoding.me
Need more information? Check NTTS's Video:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3LUtBVe3Jk
Want to talk with people about the update? Check this server:
- https://discord.gg/jpFhkeqGHS
An anonymous Discord Partner has spoken out about the reservations, check it out.
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Hey, even game devs are struggeling getting their official name as verified servers:
- https://www.gamesradar.com/indie-studio-has-their-discord-username-stolen-out-from-under-them/
- https://twitter.com/rustylakecom/status/1659556388526338048
So what is it with this update?
So generally, this update has recieved a TON of backlash. And this feedback post has already recieved just about 13k upvotes at the time of writing AND a change.org petition with 13k people having signed it,
Fundementally this change to discord is going to cause more issue's for it's users then it could be worth. Among the comments, there are a few I'll display/mention.
One of the major issues that can be confirmed is the resale of Discord accounts. That is something that is unable to be denied and is going to be a major issue. Example here:
What discord has done absolutly wrong during this update:
Discord staff has been claiming double the names, one for their private account. Another for their staff account. Some of these usernames that are being claimed are so rare that people are speculating they are planning to sell it one day or another. The communication is absolute crap, they have not communicated how they where planning to do the roll-out and the way people are now claiming names left and right, from piewdiepie, markiplier and other names that should have been reserved. Then the way access get's rolled out? Verified bots where supposed to get access first, then supposedly brands, moving on to the staff and then the partnered and verified servers. Then the general population. But this has so far changed even more, starting with people from the moderator program, and suddenly the Hypesquad event team. And we still do not have enough information to know what the next bracket will be. There is no proper communication apart from Discord telling us to append our tag/discriminator to our usernames if we can't use it. Or you know just don't make usernames unique. The reddit has been stormed with people hating this update. And when people go to the support page, they're told to respond to feedback, or create it. We've all done this, but Discord still hasn't made an official statement. The entire update wasn't even properly announced like they do with everything else. Hidden behind their Birthday suprises. With the nitro trails providing people with 2 weeks of nitro to forget they signed up and pay an additional month. Normally, this would be tweeted and announced everywhere properly. People are moving away from Discord in an attempt to revolt, they're disbanding Nitro to put a dent somewhere in Discord's earnings. But that'll probably be recouped by investors. Discord claims to listen to feedback. But we've seen nothing of this yet. As a ton of people are saying, Discord is turning into Twitter, we don't want to see it happen. But with the 300 million active users on Discord, we're barely making a dent with this feedback post.
What are some good ways to fix this update?
The previous system worked perfectly, nothing to change about it. However using the display name system is a good idea. Maybe even supporting for official known people to get a username, or a checkmark to define "hey they are official" without the Twitter "pay for a blue tick" bs.
> BELOW ARE COMMENTS MADE BY THE COMMUNITY, NOT BY ME DIRECTLY <
Mikey's, Gen, Rain
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discord is run by cowards so it's no surprise they don't listen to their users, especially when it results in this much feedback
it's like they want to lose money
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Whelp y'all, it's confirmed that they don't care for their community in any way anymore.
Time to look at alternatives and see communities move elsewhere; the management of Discord has finally proven how little anyone means to them- especially the very community that caused Discord to become relevant(the gaming community).
Salud
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The fact that Discord refuses to even ACKNOWLEDGE the backlash against the removal of discriminators is very telling. They simply do not care about nor respect their user base enough to respond to us within a meaningful dialogue. They are cowards who won't even address the points and skepticism brought against them, to reassure us of their best intentions or provide their community with empathy and support as they work towards rolling this all out. Instead they are silent, pointing passive aggressively to the support and help pages in what I assume they believe to be a helpful and supportive fashion. It isn't, it's just demeaning and infuriating. If they had any ounce of desire to prove themselves as anything other than greedy cowards they would actually make an effort to acknowledge and address all this. But they won't, because we're just the peasants right? They don't need to justify themselves to us. They "thought about it a lot" and are willing to cite a multitude of issues no one ever complained about in any serious sense, and that should be enough for us, right? If they understand that we feel strongly about it then maybe they should work harder to address those feelings, instead of ignoring them. Instead of making it seem like we're just disgruntled people who "disagree". This isn't trivial. If it was we wouldn't have signed a petition to end this. We wouldn't be vocal about it.
Honestly? I feel like I'm being held hostage by this app now. All my friends, all my communities, utilize it. It is quite literally the entirety of my social life. And now this change is happening that I don't support... yes, I canceled Nitro. But what am I supposed to do? Lose access to my friends and communities to protest this? Keep yelling when no one is listening? This is ridiculous. Discord IS holding their user base hostage. They are banking on the fact we have nowhere else to go, that transplanting friends and communities will be too daunting a task for most. They've made up a community that depends on them and now that they've got their fingers in our scruffs they're willing to jerk us around to their own ends. They simply do not care, and have justified it like every other capitalistic fiend on this planet.
I genuinely hope they are happy with this. Because I genuinely know, somehow, someway, it's going to come back and bite them.
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You've just crossed a terrible threshold, Discord.
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It's quite upsetting that Discord has decided to completely ignore all of this overwhelming feedback towards the removal of the discriminators. I think I can speak for many by saying that the response (or lack thereof) to this well-meaning constructive criticism has soured my opinion of Discord's management as well as the community managers.
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How much more of a big ol' mistake can the people who even thought of this change make? Like, seriously. It's bad enough as is to see Discord's security be bad enough that the very discord account that was named after this zendesk account, got deactivated by a hacker last year, resulting in me being unable to recover it because their support team just doesn't exist for such stuff. But also the countless other issues that they could be fixing instead of making the overall platform worse. Such as them fixing issues with app connectivity, performance, functionality, among many other things they could fix up, without having to make things worse by making this platform the same as nearly every other chatting platform that either has existed, or still exists to this day, that uses the less secure system of the two for usernames.
I genuinely don't know what Discord was thinking though, because there's also a good chance that this'll break stuff like the blocked user system and whatnot.13 -
How this passed through internal discussion actually completely blows my fucking mind. I have never been more stunned than what I am seeing here with Discord and how all this shit is being handled. For a platform this large, 300 million registered users, this is absolutely fucking ridiculous.
300 MILLION!!!
How didn't a SINGLE person at the forefront say, "hey guys don't you think this is a bad idea, the community is clearly up in flames right now" or, "there's a feedback thread on the forum about this and there are many valid points that the community have brought up"?
Like, it's already bad enough that they didn't ask us what we thought at all and ran this shit by us, but Jesus Christ almighty.
The fact this starts rolling out the moment Discord's anniversary rolls around and how people were saying that was going to be the case just shows us that you guys literally don't give an ever so giving fuck about the community.
You guys had this all planned out and wanted to do whatever you guys wanted to do. Whatever you thought would be best for the platform.
Like you guys are going to fully regret this shit entirely. All the problems this platform is about to have. All the fucking support tickets that will be made. Support is already bad enough as it is, it's already near impossible to get an actual human to speak with and not get automated responses from Clyde.
There are users on this platform who have only been on this platform for a few months that even acknowledge and understand just how blasted and downright horrible of a change this actually fucking is. Meanwhile, the FOUNDERS OF DISCORD do not know their platform and think that this is an amazing change for everyone, when clearly it is fucking not.
Just let that all actually sink in.
It's complete fucking insanity.
To keep it completely real too, I honestly and truly believe with the amount of stress and anxiety that some people are suffering over this shit, there's probably people who may even take their own lives over something like this. This is shit that can really affect people on such a level that Discord seriously doesn't even have a single clue at all about. It's absolutely terrifying.
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Great to see that Discord staff have already started rolling this out without addressing the massive wave of concerns and backlash both on here and on their social media accounts.
Also wonderful to see them try and cover up the large numbers of people cancelling Nitro in direct response to losing a feature we PAID REAL MONEY FOR by handing out "free" (aka "input your credit card details and please forget about it so we can charge you $$$ and boost our sub numbers") trials of Nitro. Really great addition to the radio silence guys!
The only positive of this is that it's had me looking into Discord alternatives like Matrix, Revolt, and Guilded- which share many of the features you forced me to pay for, for free! I'd advise people check them out if this truly makes you feel like using Discord less or not at all.
I do still want Discord to turn around and be better, to actually listen to the people who've been using it from the start and generated them so much revenue. But I'm not going to hold my breath.
EDIT: LMAO
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Adding my vote - keep the discriminators! I do not want strangers to find me by my username, to have to buy my username, be targeted by hackers who want my username, or not even get my username because some other account has it! This change is unnecessary and unliked by the majority of users and I will not be supporting Discord financially anymore.
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This decision is bad and Discord should feel bad.
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+1
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I personally think people are extremely overreacting over a very nothingburger change
The OP mentioned that this will cause account resales, however the problem with that argument is that account resales have existed since discord was a thing so it's not a new issue. People have been selling 2015/16 accounts for years, people have been selling accounts with unique badges for years now, it's not a new issue so it's not really valid to bring it up for this change.
Some people have the argument "oh, they are called name#1234 but after the update they are going to be called name1234567891011213", not realizing that people can call themselves the same exact thing right now, so it's not a valid argument once again because it's an issue that already exists, but it realistically won't because if people don't call themselves that right now they won't after the update either
Overall, the people bring up as issues for the name change are issues that already exist and I think people are extremely overreacting.
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+1
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Seeing few previous incidents, also shown in one of NTTS's video, we could go as far as to say "thank you discord for being the reason of a murder".
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I suppose this was as a good as Discord was going to get, and this update shows it will all be downhill from here.
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So for that reason MOVE TO GUİLDED NOW!!! https://guilded.gg / https://guilded.gg/mxo
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I will say in response to gregest is that especially given how large discord is, it's gonna do a lot more than you think from our reactions.
People will get hacked for their usernames, literally minecraft have had people have accounts eventually confiscated by mods due to how often people would sell the account and hacking to those accounts.I highly doubt any of us will be okay.
The discrimator and username are NOT the same thing. in fact they're stated to be different so many times.We are not over reacting. anyone within any sense of not wanting to loose their username over something useless and honestly dangerous as this is important.
I don't want to be stalked or any of the sort because I reused my username. I like having my dms open for a reason, it's helpful for interacting with friends or people who need help.
not to mention it's just shit, It's a system that has shown how annoying it is, especially for longer it's up. I want to point out people's old accounts or those who have died will be negatively affected as well. I do not think anyone needs a feature from the head of a company that doesn't know shit about the userbase anymore.
There is nearly 13k upvotes on this. and on feedback that's insane. I do suggest everyone to directly complain to people even outside of feedback, as they obviously love ignoring everyone. (ie with the gg font being horrible to disabled folks and a nightmare to read in general, even when typing this.)
Don't let the anniversary trick anyone tbh :/
They're just trying to bury this like many other cases, and it will affect literally every person who ever made an account.12 -
+1
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Getting pretty sick of Discord’s awful updates. I do not want my account to be found easily. It’s a PRIVATE MESSAGING APP.12 -
Honestly the display name was a great idea 10/10 but the fact that you are completely changing the landscape of identity tags on the platform is very disappointing
I think the best way we should leave a review on the discord app on the play store, this is how we got amoled mode back on android devices. So they have shown they are willing to change things back we just have to show the upper chain through reviews12 -
Discord, C`MON STOP PUSHED OF YOUR UPDATE.
Or you will be lost more nitro and users ended up like Skype. If you won't listen to this and you wouldn't worry about this? Seriously discord staff. It's time to ditch this discord app and move to alternative app like Matrix or Revolt, app.
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+1
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Hello all! I received a reply from Discord about this after posting a 1-star review on the play store. Felt like a Karen but it got a reply: if we are claiming security concerns they said to submit a ticket! It's not well within in realm of knowledge to make a lot of good points regarding security, but for those of you who are more inclined, it sounds like a possible way of Discord actually listening. Or at least not turning a blind eye to thousands of people's plights.
Obviously I will still be submitting a ticket, but doing this as well as reviewing poorly on app store/play store sounds like one way to get them to give us a glance.
And once again, if this doesn't work, Revolt and a handful of other instant messaging platforms are doing well and listening to their consumers! Fancy that. Happy reviewing and ticketing everyone, let's hope this works out in our favor.
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+1
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worst update ever, +1, please backpedal on this asap
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"You want to use a common name like “Mike” or “Jane” but there are already 9,999 Mikes or Janes so you’re blocked from that name altogether."
So instead of 9,999 Mikes, now we made is so there can only be 1 Mike
Fire whoever approved this idea
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The OP mentioned that this will cause account resales, however the problem with that argument is that account resales have existed since discord was a thing so it's not a new issue. People have been selling 2015/16 accounts for years, people have been selling accounts with unique badges for years now, it's not a new issue so it's not really valid to bring it up for this change.
You miss the point entirely.
The Black Market has obviously existed, yes. But, up until now it really hasn't been THAT bad. This change is about to make it be a major issue due to how this "new" username system is like. Instead of 9,999 name for an account that you could sell on the Discord Black Market as of now (which a certain name really doesn't hold much value not even most #0001 tags), now there can only be ONE of those user names in particular.
So, any name that is rare or sought after can easily be sold for thousands of dollars, and they WILL be sold for thousands of dollars.
2015 dated accounts were already selling upwards of 1,000 USD with this change being announced, and people HAVE been buying them.
People buying accounts for badges is nothing compared to accounts for usernames. People buying accounts for usernames specifically really hasn't been as much of an issue as badges up until now. Now, both of these combined will create a very massive issue with account selling. Given the right names with the correct badges, there will be accounts worth 10s of thousands of dollars being sold off without a hitch.
Some people have the argument "oh, they are called name#1234 but after the update they are going to be called name1234567891011213", not realizing that people can call themselves the same exact thing right now, so it's not a valid argument once again because it's an issue that already exists, but it realistically won't because if people don't call themselves that right now they won't after the update either
Missing the point yet again.
With this "new" username system it's going to be more likely that people will end up inevitably getting cornered and forced into picking usernames like those. Especially with there being lots of snipers picking off usernames and hoarding them.
While people can pick them now (those more undesired usernames), they don't really have a reason to when they can actually get the usernames they want. Even more common, sought after, and rare names. That's all thanks and due to discriminators existing.
Most people WILL end up with undesired usernames that they will not be happy with especially showing and displaying on their user profiles.
What you're trying to say is easily flawed as it is not realistic in any way. The issue that is being brought up about this "new" username system is not one that's an issue right now with discriminators.
Overall, the people bring up as issues for the name change are issues that already exist and I think people are extremely overreacting.
The downvotes on your post should be telling you something.
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Steals our data. Now steals our usernames.9 -
+1
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this is great advertising for different platforms!
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