[Enshittification][DO NOT ADD] Discord Username System

Codixer
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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.
- 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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  • gregest

    I (sadly) have read all the comments and even refuted the original points that are just extremely wrong and inaccurate and pretend that the update will bring issues that currently do not exist, many of the issues that were brought up regarding the update already exist    

     

    it is just a username, discord is not kicking your puppy is taking your family hostage, you will be fine

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  • Autumn

    gregest
    I'm more than sure you haven't read even a small portion of the comments or the main thread, because you're making the assumption that these are non-issues or that they don't exist. These problems exist in every platform with the pomelo system. You don't know what you're talking about, plain and simple.

    Stop downplaying the severity, and get a taste for something other than boots, please.

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  • gregest

    don't you dare insult me anime avatar, back to the shadow realm with you    

     

    anyway, if you knew me you would know that I have always been very critical of discord and have never given them a cent, I always advocated against nitro and have advocated for... other ways of getting nitro features that do not require you to give any money to discord, as I don't think they deserve the money     

     

    as much I hate discord the company for being incompetent, I think this update is very nothingburger and I could not care less about it because it's just a username, I personally will be sleeping just as well

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  • Ephenia


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  • Ephenia
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    ADDING THIS NEW UPDATED DIAGRAM TO THE TOP FOR BETTER VISIBILITY

    Discord... Discord... Discord...

    You know how horrible that you look right now? You know how much all of this simply isn't worth it?

    Of course, you don't know. You Literally don't give a f­uck at all about the community abroad. You don't care about what's best for us. What's right.

    This Reddit thread here, it was up for over 3 days. It was eventually removed by Reddit themselves. It's extraordinarily rare to see a thread like this be removed by Reddit themselves.

    We know that it's complete utter bulls­hit and that you guys had taken it down. I am genuinely surprised that the mods over on r/discordapp didn't go taking it down that love to abuse and be biased.

    Here is also the archived version of that thread, before it had got taken down.

    The r/discordapp subreddit is complete f­ucking pandemonium and has been for the past weeks over this shi­t.

    Countless threads being shot down, there's f­uck loads of them.

    Here's only just a few:

    Here's some more dirt and other things, anyway.

    Support giving out scripted responses about this c­rap. It's like they acknowledge this thread's existence, but then again they f­ucking don't.

     

    This s­hit right here. Mamma mia if this is true, then I seriously got nothing to say.

     

    Those /r/discordapp mods are a bunch of bootlickers. I know at least one of those cretins will see this s­hit here too. F­uck you.

     

    Literally abusing their powers and displaying excessive force. I'm sure you're only making Discord look better amidst all of this s­hit going on. These people will go scraping the gum off of the boots if it means they feel they have a closer relationship and association to Discord themselves.

     

    One of the first bigger content creators to go speaking out and one of the real OGs, a Minecraft content creator of all people. Feel free to go check his tweet here and Twitter out. Dude deserves more recognition for this. I do hope when bigger media continues to pick this up, that they show this tweet more and give this man more credit.

     

    Thought the Black Market wasn't going to be such an issue and even so soon? Think again.

     

    r/discordapp mods letting multiple threads be up of other topics and shi­t, but not this one.

    Buffoon behavior.

     

    ✨LEGENDARY MEME STASH✨

     

     

    MAKE SURE TO ALSO TAKE PART IN THIS UNOFFICIAL POLL THAT CAN FURTHER HELP THE CAUSE!!! THE SURVEY THAT DISCORD SHOULD HAVE GIVEN US IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!

     

     

    Here's also a diagram that also shows you how convoluted and absolutely braindead this system is that they came up with for those who are unaware or just want an easier overview:

     

     

    MORE TO COME...

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