the removal of discriminators, unreasonable.
Good day, you are reading my protest against the removal of discriminators.
the reasons why i wholeheartedly disagree with the removal of them;
Nobody in the world has had a moment where they met some hot girl in a bar that asked them for their discord username and your phone happend to be empty.
we got mobile phone numbers for that.
98% of people using discord have a phone and have the mobile app installed, it is REALLY blooody easy to open your phone and look at your username.
the post from discord themselves saying that ''some people find it hard to find or remember their username'' is completely false
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both on pc and mobile it is extremly fool proof, clicking/tapping your username for it to be copied to your clipboard and you can now copy paste this anywhere you want! WOW! ( use your brain people)
the removal of discriminators will not fix and identity issues, if you were named ''john#1234'' before, you will now get people named John234897 and John 288476 and John0239485 and John01923847 and..... etc, you get the memmo.
people PAY for their discriminators to be changed, custom. taking this feature away, as silly as it sounds, will cause people to stop getting nitro as it is something that distinquishes you from other people.
i've got friends who are recognised in random servers or events due to their discriminator and username combination.
a lot of other gaming companies use discriminators, like battlenet for example. it is much easier to type in DragonSlayer#9265 then to add Dr4g0nSl4y3R927_!8 to your friends list cus all the other variations were already taken.
it is again something that is being ''fixxed'' while it isnt broken, yet adds a heap of other issues to the mix.
i've not spoken to a SINGLE person ( and i'm in the max available servers possible without nitro) that has agreed, liked or talked positively about this upcomming update. i would REALLY advise to listen to your community, specially the veteran part of this community. me being one of those.
best regards and i REALLY hope this does not reach the actual build.
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vote for it to be stopped https://chng.it/rxkzwfCrfx
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You are correct! nobody wants this change and it actively makes the messaging client (not social media platform, discord is not a social media platform) worse and more dangerous for its users.
Please also add your vote and comment to the main thread here! https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/14337329256983--Do-NOT-add-The-new-discord-usernames-system
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It's not only dangerous, but also a big issue. When i see Twitter, i see only worse experience due the abuse of handles. First the mention scamming was a nightmare for mostly users on the platform where when we got followed Discord on Twitter, someone have successfully find us and mention us without reason by adding an shady Discord link. It's just be a problem seriously!
Here an example of the nightmare. This could be worse when people start using handle to mass mention for no reason. Im really upset about how bad is communications. Such Discord and Twitter being the same when evolution goes. They make money but they doesn't spend on security measures. Wow such a disapointement and again who needs handles? Im still always glad to see Xbox, Battlenet and others companies still using Discriminators for easier recognition of a real user. But still. Handle will never solve the issue of identity and crypto will not solve too. I guess the better way is keep Discriminator because Handle was just an violation of privacy and security anyways due to nature people can do anything to steal an account with an rare handle. It's a serious problem. Handle was not the only targeted but any platform that involve unique username only that was affected. Such like Minecraft for example. I just hope if Mojang and Microsoft could solve it after the migration to add their Discriminator from Xbox App inside Minecraft to not have the issue again.
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I've been an active Discord user since 2016. I've seen Hammer and Chisel do some dumb stuff with Discord, but I have to say that this is the most ridiculous thing I have seen from them. Discriminators had absolutely zero problem, people could have the same name without having to make any modifications and it was extremely easy to follow when someone said what their username was. There was a problem with discriminators if you were dyslexic or accidentally hit the wrong button, but that's easier to remember than an entire handle of 13375p34k. I really hope there's a way to opt out of this and keep the old user#discriminator format without any of the handle stuff, because this change to me is unreasonable.
Change is not always good. The above statements about stealing accounts and targeted harassment are true too and have happened on other platforms. Discord is not social media, it's essentially IRC and AIM mashed together.
I think if I had a choice to take Discord back in 2016 over Discord now, I would take it. The stuff that's been happening ever since Discord moved from the "Free voice and text chat for gamers" to the whole "Imagine a place" thing it seems to have been going downhill FAST.
That's just my two cents though.
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