Please read my thoughts on the username update

Max
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Dear Discord Staff,

 

I've been on Discord since 2017 and have not experienced any issues with the discriminator system. I understand the wish to allow users to have any name they want, but Display Names alone achieve this. The change from a discriminator-based system to handles makes adding friends more complicated because of the not easy at all to remember usernames that everyone will end up having.

 

The only benefit of having handles is only alphanumerical characters being allowed in handles, which in my opinion it should have been like that for usernames with discriminators from the start.

 

Please consider keeping the discriminators while adding the display names. You should add letters to the discriminator to increase the number of people that can have a username since it will be used for friend purposes only anyways.

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  • Yosuke

    Why not keep the old System and just add Display Names. Also, we had a feature in the past where you could create and invite code to add yourself as a friend, but since Discord doesn't really care about us, they removed it. This could also be a perfect solution. 

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  • Falcolmreynolds

    Discord is literally going BACKWARDS with this change. It's absurd.

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

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  • 天天

    The only benefit of having handles is only alphanumerical characters being allowed in handles, which in my opinion it should have been like that for usernames with discriminators from the start.

    Hey, people who aren't from English speaking countries use Discord and will be affected by this change. It's really insensitive that so many people seem to want users to be forced to write their name in latin letters. I will lose my username because it is in Chinese. Many Japanese players of the video game played by the creators of Discord, which inspired them making the chat program to begin with, will also lose theirs.

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