[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)
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(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.
- Original post was deleted by reddit admins, link is now for archive.org
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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No one wants this update. No one asked for it. I partially got Nitro, especially in the beginning, just to mess around with those little numbers. My username is so basic but it’s special to me, I’ve had it for almost forever. Yk how many other “me” is out there? And seriously, using the excuse that we’re gonna forget the 4 numbers next to our username isn’t good enough. What other pros are there? What’s the real reasoning? This isn’t preventing or solving anything, this is making things worse. (Please refer to the thread as to WHY this is bad.) I had yet to see a bad update from Discord, but this takes the cake.
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Worst update ever! Discord just want loose their face! I really consider that this nickname system is one of the main recognizable feature of the platform!59 -
I second this. I would like to comment this on every single post saying DO NOT ADD THIS FEATURE because I genuinely DO NOT want this feautre.
The discrims are great, it allows me to change my nickname and change my username to what I WANT to be called. It's why I pay for Nitro in the first place, for people to find me under my nick and Discrim. This is such a stupid decision from Discord corporate offices.
Please DO NOT implement.
EDIT: I wrote a larger post here, and as updated my post here too as requested.
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To the intern/moderator reading this: I know I'm just one voice of several, but please escalate this matter to higher management and especially to the person recommending this change from discriminators to the pomelo system. I know how hard it is to get your voice through in corporate, so even escalating this to your manager who then escalates it further would be wonderful. This change is absoluely terrible and I genuinely would like to sit down over zoom and have a chat - where no corporate language is used - to understand whoever approved this terrible decision to impact the end-user experience.
Please do not implement this change or push this change into production enviroment.
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This is yet another post about the terrible change Discord just announced regarding removing discriminators to a pomelo system, and I want to give my take on this. It seems like huge tech companies don't care about the average end-user experience unless the sterile corporate bigwigs come in and want to change things up to make the green line go up, in which case the end-user experience gets messed.
So, I'm here to add my perspective to it: I'm a long term user, I've been on Discord since July 2015. I've paid for Nitro since it came out, and most importantly: I've been bringing in my irl friends to Discord. I will go point by point commenting on each claim on the blogpost and adding why this is a bad idea - my passion is cybersecurity so I will involve this aspect to the best of my ability into this.
- The whole point of these changes is that we want to make it a lot easier for you and all the new users coming to Discord to connect and hang out with friends.
No, sorry. I don't buy this. I've added plenty of my irl friends to Discord and most of them have understood how the discriminator system works right away. If that's an issue, why not add a tutorial for people like - clippy - on how to add people or join servers? Not only that, I've made plenty of friends on Discord and no-one has ever said "The Discriminators are hard" .
- We also recognize that our current username format has been one of the things that makes Discord unique, and that this change makes our usernames look a lot like those on other platforms. To be blunt, that’s kind of the point.
- When we were first building Discord, one of our top priorities was to let you give yourself just about any name you wanted [...] We didn’t want people to ever hit a screen that said “Your Desired Username is Taken.” [...] we didn’t even have a friend system, so no one had to type usernames manually.
Then... why change it if it makes Discord unique and if it makes Discord stand out? If the point was that no username you want should ever be taken? I mean, I've literally paid to have my name on Discord with a discriminator that I like for years at this point. I very well remember back in the day on Discord when I joined and there was only Light mode and I was so happy to see a lot of features being implemented we wanted.
I was so happy when I could actually pick a name I wanted when I joined and wasn't met with 1000 messages on how variations of my name are taken.
Edit here: I actually have given this a bit of though I've talked with people who are adamant this change will bring "more individuality", but I simply am not convinced.
I just want to stress this even further, even if I am not able to explain this more throughoutly I know will reduce individuality and bring a 1000-times WORSE sign-up expereince. I can from experience say, my name is a very general name and the amount of times I've attempted to sign up to a website, only to be told my name and all it's subsequent variations are taken, is too many to count and at some point I've just given up. I actually did exactly that yesterday - I absolutely loathe signing up for any website, as often times even my realname.lastname is taken.
So, think of it this way: My name on Discord is a very common word, "Rain". I signed up in July 2015, and I was already informed by people in the Discord Town Hall that my name is already taken. Great, so signing up early made no difference in getting the username and identity I like. Now comes the fun part: because, let's assume, there is 9998 other Rain accounts, how can we decide who is the "only" Rain? Sure, we can make our names as "Rain.." "_rain_" "rrraaaain" and so on, but at that point it's just so much more convoluted than anything else. It's why I loathe Instagram; My name (literal first-middle-last) name taken there, and I know plenty of people with he same issue so they end up with "looooong-words" to go around it. And that's still so not fun.
But even so - especially without username culling or deleting inactive usernames: do you realize half instagram handles are just people "squatting" on them, where they took the username and deactivated their account so they can say they have a rare name?
And now let's think of the other aspect. Maybe for some reason my usernames elsewhere are "RainTheDiscordUser" becasue just Rain was taken. I have no social media connected to my Discord, because I don't care. However, because I use this same username elsewhere due to the fact that the username I want has been taken everywhere else (which is, again, such a common thing), now the barely-above-TOS age person who find me can just google me and get the rest of my information because all the other usernames are taken. Yeah, sure, I can switch my name to "Rainthewqjasjas2190892311" but now it defeats the purpouse you wanted in the first place of people "finding you easier".
OR, better yet - let's say I have a rare name like only "Rain" under the pomelo sysem. Because of the username, people who break the TOS with self-bots (or other malicious bots) finds a way to keep a list of me, like a Twitter feed - in which servers I am in, in what servers I like to talk with. Maybe they realize I am friends with "Sunnydays" and hey are not so used to tech. So Sunnydays get's compromised - and suddenly my private server where hey are in gets compromised too with all the data raked and the person who managed to phish Sunnydays is threatening me to release all my information unless I give them my username. This has happened before for a friend of mine - not on Discord. A man died because his name was Tennessee on Twitter and someone Swatted him. Do we really need this issue? No.
Granted, digital fooprint is a thing, but it's absurd to think someone wouldn't talk about their peronal life with their friends on an instant messaging platform. And keep in mind, cybersecurity is a field that changes by month - maybe you and I are smart enough to roll our eyes at this, but why do you think scams work? Because that one person out of 1000 fell for it. Hence, always assume all threats are the worst kind of threat.
I can't stress it enough how this current username system is good, and this change is so ridiculous.
I can understand every code - if built flimsily or pushed to prod on a patch - comes with a detriment and potentially huge issues that may flare up later on, but considering several places, such as Microsoft or Activision Blizzard, has started implementing the discriminators or have them so I'm sure you could be able to cooperatet with them to figure out how to fix the discriminator system. Or better yet: add a new discriminator number, or two.
Edit: I somehow randomly realized that Discord already has ID's - your unique ID. When you do use support or right-click your name you are able to copy your ID, so again, using the argument that this makes the database easier - why on earth wasn't the database run on ID's instead of name#discrims then?
- As Discord has grown and friending has become more popular, more problems have emerged. The technical and product debt we incurred years ago caught up with us and small issues that seemed to impact a few people started affecting tens of millions of people.
Okay, so. That sounds like it can be fixed with a dedicated, motivated and understanding team of programmers. Re-writing the code from scratch will suck, but discriminators - like Discord said themsevles - is a part of Discord so why remove it?
- The biggest problem: our current usernames can often be too complicated or obscure for people to remember and share easily.
- Your friend says they changed their name to “vernacular” but actually it’s “𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖆𝖗” and you have trouble finding them.
That sounds like a non-issue. I have a very generic name - Rain, as you can see - which I identify with and I know plenty of other people with their name as "Rain". The point is literally so you don't find me unless you know me. Yes, I pay for the discriminator, but even then if someone adds me it's because it's intentional.
People with Zalgo in their name has it because they have it in their name. I'm sure it's not because they pressed the wrong buttons but it's intentional. However, I get that this comes with technical difficulties and could open up Discord to vulnerabilities; so why not just forbid special characters in the Discriminator username? Not optimal, but then most people would not need to change their name.
- You try to share your username outside of Discord. Unfortunately, you either can’t remember the discriminator, have to explain which letters are uppercase and lowercase, or have to try to specify which special characters your name uses.
- You meet someone IRL that you want to talk to on Discord, and they say “I’m Phibi Eight Nine Three Six!” You go home and add “phibi#8936” only to find out you added the wrong “Phibi” because your new friend’s username is actually “PhIBI#8936”.
This is a non-issue? I'm pretty sure that having my name as Rain#0000 is easier to remember than Rain12451245 or R41N12412 since I'm quite sure that my name will be taken the moment this change rolls out. The same way goes for everyone who has a generic name: I know plenty of people named Mike, Jack, Jake, Kim, Tom... I guess we're not allowed to have the name we want anymore, eh?Not only that, but from a cybersecurity perspective this sucks as it increases phishing attempts: I knew someone who on Instagram got a 3-letter name, their real name, by some sheer luck. They keep getting random people adding them, DM:ing them, tagging them in pictures, the phishing attempts are constant. They are never having a calm moment. So now you're subjecting the select few people who are lucky enough to get the name to constant harassment and phishing attempts because you're opening a black market for "fancy usernames". So much for individuality!
- 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.
This... is the point. Sometimes I don't want to add people and just tell them my first name on Discord. This is for my own safety as a woman on the internet.
And if I stream, I don't want people to find my account and add me. What is going to happen to streamer mode now, when streamers will have people adding them the moment their url leaks? Or if they take the username on Discord so people don't impersonate them and then get targeted? Or better yet - they don't get the username because someone else got it and now they are being impersonated? This by design is already a terrible choice.
- You like to change your username a lot and get rate limited.
A non-issue. I've not changed my name because I like my name but I used to change my name occasionally because I want to feel comfortable in my name. Make it so that you can change your username once a month then, like on Twitch.
- More than 40% of you either don’t remember your discriminator or don’t even know what a discriminator is. That’s a big problem when discriminators are required to add a new friend.
Funny you mention that - I only lurk Discordapp whenever there's a happening (like this). How was the data collected? What statistics are you used? How did you vet the data that it's 40%? Because I sure as day never got a questionaire on my Discord client, nor did any of my friends or anyone in several huge servers I am in (totaling almost 300k people). How do we know your one linked anecdotal post where the person asking what the code is called isn't asking what it's just named? For example, there are several thigns I don't know the name of but I understand what it does and understand how it works.
Not only that, but with a quick look at the user's profile, this user seems to be - this user is allegedly just around the age of 13.. so it's expected they don't know what a discrim is but understand what it does.
So if we're going to use reddit's Discordapp as a reference, why does it turn out everyone posting on the subreddit says they don't like this change, even your own staff? Or, I don't know, when a staff mentions Discrims as a better option?
- Across Discord, almost half of all friend requests fail to connect the user with the person they wanted to match with, mostly because users enter an incorrect or invalid username due to a combination of missing discriminator and incorrect casing.
That's happened to me too, but I don't exactly find this to be an issue - it doesn't bother me in the slightest because it's the point. If someone truly wants to reach out to me, like a friend, they will find me. Otherwise I do not find their friend request to be important.
But if this is such a crucial point: why not implement friend codes or friend invite codes like Steam or Hoyoverse then? Let people copy a link from the settings where, when pressed, they will send a friend invite to the person they want. And this would work like a server invite; but for yourself. Granted, there may be issues that friends lists needs to be limited and only X invites a day should be sent to avoid bots, but that's not a bad thing.
- We decided at one point that the most important issue to solve was case-sensitivity and special characters, so there could be only one phibi#8936, instead of allowing permutations like PhIBI#8936, and PHibi#8936.
- [...] Unfortunately, we found that nearly one-third of our active users would be forced to change their name just to accommodate this. Meanwhile, people from regions where non-alphanumeric characters are common in names, such as Asia, would have difficulty fully representing themselves.
- [...] We came to the conclusion that if we were going to ask a lot of our users to make a change, we needed a more comprehensive and robust long-term solution - one that gives people the power to have a Display Name they can change anytime with very relaxed rate limits. Think of them like a global nickname.
Okay. But having one third of people change their username because it's case-sensitive, in order to accomodate the systemt, is better than having 1000 people change their username to accomodate one. So you're basically going to alienate entire regions such as Asia with this new system because...?
Edit here: With a lil bit of research it turns out Discord has started flourishing in Japan due to the fact that they can use kanji, kana and hiragana in their names as most other apps do not allow this. This is a MASSIVELY Americacentric change limiting characters to only latin letters a-z . _ 0-9 and I can forsee huge negative market impact due to this change.
Yes, I understand lack of language skills and knowledge of potential vulnerabilities that can exist within other alphabets exist, however, this seems to alienate a huge part of your userbase. No keyboard is coming to come with 15k+ symbols installed but limiting it to the American English alphabet only is just... bad.
However, again, this could simply be solved with a friend invite code like Steam or Hoyoverse has. Or better yet: make a lil tutorial like Clippy when someone new joins Discord on how to use Discord and where you can invite people and so on. Not only that, I've used Blizzard's services for years as I'm an avid video gamer and I've never, ever had issues with the Discrim tag there. Yes, it has 6 numbers instead of 6 but I remember those numbers even if I've not played any games there for years: I highly doubt someone "forgets" their 4 numbers on Discord as your SIM PIN, Bank code etc. usually has 4 numbers. But again, if you truly want to "Patch" a consequence: make discrims longer to 6 digits. Going from 4 to 6 discrim numbers, with a quick google, gives this:
"A four digit PIN has 10,000 possible combinations. I know that sounds pretty impressive, but it's actually quite easy to break using various electronic methods. However, a six digit pin has a whopping 1 million possible combinations". That sounds like a huge upgrade to me which would patch the issue of only 9999 people being able to have the number!
You've truly not thought about the end-user perspective here; the average Joe and average Rain is not going to get the username they want. You, as a [inset high title] will probably always get any name you want with the contacts but we here on the bottom are just going to be left to fend for ourselves where our individuality is being stripped away.
And last but not least,
- We recognize that this is a big change. There may be hiccups with this process, and it may be tough to part ways with that “#0001” that’s meant a lot to you over the years. We’ll be doing everything we can to manage things as smoothly as possible.
- Jason and I truly believe this is the right thing to do to help more people hang out with their friends on Discord, which is what we’re all about
You started out by saying that you wanted Discord to be a place where you can express your individuality, and now you're removing it. How on earth can you sit and write this blog post expecting it to go well, when it's clear you don't even want this change to happen? Who greelit this?
There needs to be a change in Discord management where the people who suggested this change - all the way down to whoever greenlit this - needs to go.
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And last but not least, think of this from a security perspective:
- A huge black market has now been opened for rare usernames: People with rare, small or otherwise fancy usernames will be relentlessly targeted. Scams will go up. Impersonations will go up.
- Swatting and other targeted harassment: There are plenty of stories on Reddit about people getting swatted because someone else wanted their username.
- Stalking: as a woman on the internet, I've been subjected to people stalking me. Going through all my posts to find one username and then intimidate me. I've had to delete or deactivate so many of my accounts because I don't want to be found under one name. I don't want Discord - my safe space to talk for people - to be targeted by people because of my name.
- Government surveillance: People in hostile countries - for example, where LGBTQ+ people are oppressed - may use Discord under a name that's common and change their name often becasue of said oppression. Now they are only stuck with one username and it makes it unsafe for them to talk to their friends. This is not only limited to LGBTQ people: you are now putting people in authoritarian dictatorships under danger too. People who speak out about their government, people who share information against their government, people organizing protests; all a pilar of democracy taken away.
- Scams and impersonations: related to the black market, but also going to see a huge amount of "youtubers" on this platform that's actually just not them. Or it is them and they can't be left in peace. Either way, scams will go up because of the rare usernames.
- Removes individuality and in general sense of security. Just yeah.
And last but not least, this will be a larger one:
Children will be targeted and their safey put in danger. This is something that I realized as I was reviewing and finalizing this post, but a huge reason other social media platforms have obscured and removed a lof of public data is becasue of children. Discords TOS is 13, which is understandable - the name change is great as if you get targeted by creeps at that age you can block them and change your name quickly. Or make a new account with a new name so you can keep your individuality, but be out of reach from the creeps.
It's very well known there are bots and other kinds of creeps making lists and keeping tabs of people. Bots can scrape the internet for known minors and make a list of them - which makes it easier for creeps and predators to contact them. And now with the new pomelo system, minors will be disproportionately targeted and disadvantaged because they can't escape the grip of predators as easily as before.
I'm sure I don't need to write more elaborately on this, but how was this overlooked by any of your teams?
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I'm ending my post by linking this post on reddit, that nailed it.
Please do no implement or push this change into production.
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Discord, PLEASE. PLEASE LISTEN TO YOUR COMMUNITY. DO NOT DO THIS.
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HUGE +1, this planned change misses the mark SO massively and genuinely will do more harm than it fixes. So far I haven't talked to a single person who considers this a good, welcome change.
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how could this possible go wrong :/
like first the ass backwards new mobile app design now this.
what on earth are you doing over there.
There are soooo many ways to improve discord, and yet you choose to eradicate discord´s identity.
*You guys love qr codes*. Make a friend request url/qr code people can scan with their app to add their friend.
Like hell this crap ain´t complicated.
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+1
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I think this image explains it well (Pomelo = Internal name for Discord Handles):
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Discord is not a social media, we dont need @s. the discriminator numbers were fine - you can copy them with one click on desktop AND mobile.
This new move is some bullshit, and is once again just going to screw people that actually use it for networking.
or they're pushing to try do the username NFTs that telegram is doing, lol
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anyone else notice how it didn't actually fix any of the problems they listed?
in fact it actively makes some of them worse, like it's going to have people as xx.mike_12213 and similar because all other permutations of 'mike' will be taken instead of having 9k of mike and 9k of Mike and so on
not to mention who the hell is trying to share usernames verbally, since the only occasion most of those issues would be issues is if you're not directly copy/pasting a username
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One of the Discord team's worst ideas yet.
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This update is the stupidest idea I’ve seen in a long time. I’ve never seen so much negative feedback on the platform regarding an update. TownHall received so much negative feedback they set the slow mode to 10+ minutes. DAC is filled with complaints about this update.
This update was rushed, without any regard to what the community would think about it. This is the type of update Discord should collect user feedback on PRIOR to implementation.
As a nitro obsessed user (my subscription is $72/mo + $10/mo on my alt + the monthly nitro for 7 staff members of my community) I find this to be a horrible idea! Discord can’t possibly think removing a paid feature won’t have consequences. Way to kill off investors! This update needs to be reversed, and Discord needs to start collecting user feedback via in app surveys when looking at removing paid features in the future.
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I am looking forward to this feature and want to make sure my vote is heard in support not against
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+1 worst idea by discord so far
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+1 really bad and some of the worst ideas discord had yet. I see already people claiming names for public users or big bot devs.
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like I (the original sender of this message) said on discord:
Respectfully, this is a terrible update. Please consider not doing this not just for the aesthetic reasons (because honestly, it's very ugly - discriminators look better) but LARGELY because now it's going to be a race to pick our preferred usernames. People are going to be hacked because others will want their usernames. Content creators are going to be affected in a big way too - a lot of them buy Nitro specifically so they can have contentcreator#0001. Now they'll be REALcontentcreator or something silly when someone inevitably takes their username first.
Monetarily, this is also a bad move for YOU. A very big chunk of people buy nitro specifically so they can have their own custom discriminators. Aesthetic means a lot to people. It also makes it so that more of us can share the same username, which is what we all love.
I don't really see how this makes it easier to add friends. If I want a friend to add me, it takes a whole 3 seconds longer to tell them my discriminator numbers. We don't want to look like other social media platforms. The discriminators are what we like and what makes our chosen nicknames unique & personal.
The update is ugly, inconvenient, and will make things a lot more difficult than they need to be for the actual users.
It would be great if you'd let us vote on this, as the people paying you tbh
Change is NOT always better. Don't fix what isn't broken.
ETA: I cancelled Nitro. I encourage others to do the same if you're considering it :)90 -
+1 #KeepDiscrims
I think this update is bad. As people may have mentioned before-People will start selling accounts with unique usernames
-Discrims are/were a unique thing on Discord, a lot of people feel somewhat of a connection to their discrim and remember it by heart
-People with big audiences will get their username sniped for impersonation purposes
-A lot of nitro users ive seen speak about this said the discrims were one of the or the main reason they have nitro, so this update doesnt even make financial sense, it seems to me discord will lose nitro subscribers because of this update if/when it goes through
-People will end up adding numbers in their username anyway if their choice is taken, we'll just get loads of DIY discrims anyway, making this update pretty useless
I honestly am also one of the users that has somewhat of an attachement to my discrim, and I'd hate to see it go, it's just part of Discord and its culture and seeing it be replaced with a generic username/display name system just pains me
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+1, bafflingly stupid change.
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This is going to be a horrible change, it's going to be having random numbers after your actual desired username like it was on other sites. Name sniping will be horrible and overall discriminators are a much better system to allow people to actually have the names they want. If only being able to have 9999 people with the same name was a problem, imagine only ONE person being able to have a particular name.
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Discord if you add this, it's gonna be the biggest L your organization has gotten so far...
BAD IDEA!!
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+1
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Quite apart from anything else, once details of the API changes are public, we then need to wait for bot framework developers to update their libraries and THEN for bit developers to update their bots. Otherwise, everything is still going to be trying to display name#discriminator ...
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is this an out of season April fools joke?
pretty sure at this point there have already been said at least 10 times more reasons for this downgrade to be a bad thing rather then a positive upgrade. Lets be honest, at this point, if discord wants to keep any credibility as to being a good functioning company that cares about the users, they listen to the community and scrap this change. Simply admit this was a mistake and go back to the drawing board to find something that works better if the current system requires attention, because this just isn't it.62 -
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The answer to poor education on a necessary feature is not simplifying it, it is educating people about it.
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