Do not remove the numerical discriminators!

VelenZiga

This nonsense is going to help nobody.

You're removing a feature that made making a market for usernames, impersonation, and other ills harder or impossible to do. And now you're expecting 350-400 million users to just change their usernames all for what? Because a few people can't figure that a four-digit number is part o your UN?

1. Forcing people to change their usernames will result in them being longer and there being even more overlap. So you're also forcing people to make more complex names that will be harder to remember for no benefit to the community.

2. Removing the discriminators will make impersonation much easier, because all it will take is a similar looking name and the same icon as the original person to complete the con. Discriminators prevented this practice, and now you're removing that layer of protection from all your users... for no good benefit.

3. Further more this will allow people to scoop up masses of usernames to squat on and hold ransom to sell to people in order get them, making them have to come up with ridiculous usernames or pay up. Numerical discriminators tied to the account assured this was basically impossible. So again, another change for no benefit.


Get out of your reddit echo chamber and engage with your community!

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  • Falcolmreynolds
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    I've been informed by other users over on the reddit that the mods there are deleting some posts and comments expressing negative opinions about the change. But there's still several big ones up... and no real posts in favor. It's not even the reddit echo chamber, because THE REDDIT USERBASE DOESN'T WANT IT EITHER.

    Like, it's getting WEIRD how much the devs are deliberately ignoring the userbase. I thought it was just typical discord at first but it's entering levels of willful ignorance that are starting to really strike me as odd.

    Anyway, make sure to add your comment and vote to the main post here! https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/14337329256983--Do-NOT-add-The-new-discord-usernames-system

    Your post in this forum helps, but the more engagement we have with the mega post, the better.

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