Why are Usernames evolving?

Todo

not sure if anybody else made a fuss about this in a different post, if that is the case, then I am posting again. I read the article about the discriminator and read where it said most people supposedly don't remember their discriminator to begin with, but I firmly believe that (plus removing it) to be a mistake. remembering those 4 numbers after someone's username is what helped make usernames unique. It was easier to remember than a 7 to 10 digit phone number. For me its even considered my personal calling card (Todo#1732) and now that the discriminator is getting removed, I'm now required to recreate my username to become more unique???. if someone said they didn't know their discriminator number either doesn't use Discord very often, or they haven't had their Discord account for very long. If I am missing something, somebody please help me understand, because I am confused about this change.

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  • JRM

    A lot of people are, understandably, against this update. Here is the masterpost that has been made against it. #1 overall on the feedback forums, and still growing. There's a link to a server for it in the post, and we courage you to share it around.

    https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/14337329256983--Do-NOT-add-The-new-discord-usernames-system

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  • Architeuthis

    we've been complaining about it nonstop. i even made this account (because you need a separate account to send feedback for some reason) to express my thoughts, but neither of the posts i tried to make went through. it's not helping anyone, it's just mimicking twitter, which is not a platform i would suggest emulating right now. ridiculous is what it is.

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  • Kazuma Taichi

    I personally never memorized my discriminator, but like, in the rare instances that I'm adding someone on discord from IRL or another messaging client, I just pull out my phone/alt tab over to discord, grab my discriminator there, and show it/send it to the person

    it really isn't that hard, I don't know why today's discord devs seem to be struggling with the concept so much

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  • Rishon

    By the looks of it from what we know now about the unique usernames, it seems fair enough to remove the user's discriminator and replace it with a more readable and memorizable name.

    Think of it like this, DIscord users can manipulate their usernames to special characters/symbols which makes it impossible to manually copy the name or even somehow pronounce it in real life to a friend. Discord makes it now easier for new and old users to connect without having a hard time trying to figure out what is the name and discriminator where everything can be readable in one name.

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  • Kazuma Taichi

    Okay, in the realm of fairness, think of it like this: discord users can manipulate their usernames to special characters/symbols, which lets users who live in countries that don't use the latin alphabet (sanskrit, cyrillic, literally the whole of east asia) to actually use the script they're most familiar with for their usernames for once.

    Discord makes it now harder for new and old users to connect in these countries since they have to figure out what their names are because everything is in this unreadable script.

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  • Maisen

    This update will be very bad, people are going to start selling accounts and honestly it’s going to make people hate the app more

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