Rename Friends and add Friend Groups
Please add the ability to rename friends in discord, because its very confusing when friends change their names and you haven't talked to them in awhile and it makes it very difficult to find them. or at the very least be able to search by notes. also adding friend groups would be nice instead of having to create individual discord servers to organize friend groups.
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Notes on their profile doesn't help me find their account when I am looking for them. I want to be able to nick my friends and group them somehow, just like you can on Steam. It has been insanely useful for me to organize both close friends, friends of friends, online friends for matches, online friends from communities, and so on.
TL;DR- A way to group friends
- A way to set persistent nickname on friend so I can find them when I search
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Renaming friends is extremely useful for people you don't often keep in contact with but who you want to look at in the list and see their full name instead of an obscure alias. The note is difficult to get to since you have to open their profile. It would be much easier to just use your own name for them right in the top-level friends list.
Plus sometimes it's fun to have your own slang name for good friends that you want to have show up in the top-level list.
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Agree with renaming friends in own friend list. Like someone mentioned steam allows me to put a nickname to identify and view directly in my friends list who that is cause of the weird account names. Yes they are my friends but you can't expect me to remember 101 different weird account names just cause they're my friends? Same as you not remembering every single one of your friends' phone numbers..
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@VirtusGraphics has right! or u add a function that search throughtout notes or let peoples rename their friends
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I agree. Steam is doing it right, I have both their nick and whateveriwannecall'm in one screen a.k.a. "Friends".
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I totally agree with being able to rename friends. Discord is amazing in every way and has changed the way I've thought about communication with family and friends. Renaming friends is a must. Grouping/tagging would be a huge plus.
In the meantime, it might be helpful if the CTRL+K search function searched the NOTES field for friends. Also show the note when hovering over a friend.
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+1 to friend groups and nicknames. VirtusGraphics's explaination for this is very clear as well.
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The real Question is why isnt this done yet? its been months
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I think this would be very useful.
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For me the friends grouping isn't very useful but I can see very well how for many people it is very important.
However I really want to rename my friends in the friends list. Many of my friends have weird / stupid usernames and I want to change it to their real name.6 -
+1 for being able to set a nickname for friends! Usernames can be changed, they can be hard to remember, and sometimes they can just be plain weird. Being able to set a nickname would help a lot.
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+1 This would be insanely useful.
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@everyone who says use notes. just stop. notes are useless. no one wants to click one by one on peoples profile to see their note to find what they are looking for. notes would be useful if you could search by notes, but that just pushes the problem down the line. we should be able to rename people, there is no reason not to.
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i'd like to use this program but looking for a friends is too messed up in this app
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I submitted feedback and this was their response. I guess we need more upvotes.
Sadly, it's not that easy to implement new features in the app. We have to consider how the feature is needed and by how many have upvoted the post. Usually, the top post is the one to get focused on implementation. We can't just add anything that is posted on the feedback site, otherwise, the app may fail in functioning.
No worries, I'll be happy to forward this to the team for us to ponder on moving forward. However, it would still be better if the post could be upvoted more and brought to be on top.4 -
Sadly if it's "not that easy to implement new features in the app," then their app is going to get its shit kicked by a new app in the near future. In a SOCIAL app the management of your methods for interacting with friends should be a top level concern all the time. Sure, listen to feedback from the audience, but you should also identify things that can make the experience better and implement those changes, even if the audience doesn't see that potential—the audience are not professional designers.
Do they not have Designers at Discord?4 -
+1 to being able to change the displayed name for your friends at your own end. Once you hit a critical mass of friends it's very hard to recall who everyone is when people are using different nicknames.
+1 to making Notes searchable. Would be super useful.3 -
Renaming friends still hasn't been added? This seems like such an obvious feature for an chat program. +1 please add!
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Steam has the feature. it's literally impossible to tell who is who in the roster after a while because people are so dumb these days it's impossible for some to keep their name consistent.
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+1 Just fix this
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I can't find my friends because they keep changing their name.2 -
Long, that isn't enough for those that have a bunch of contacts from multiple circles.
This could be Friends, Family, Support, Customers, etc, etc.Notes are also not easy to read in a single glance, you would have to click each person to see their notes.
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I just friended my teacher on discord, And He wanted to see my name to know WHO is the person behind the pseudo, and I think it's really a needed option. steam is really better at gestioning friend. EVEN in SKYPE you can reanme your friends !
plz ?
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So need this feature. Notes are visible in profile, but editing friend's visible nickname is a must. I do not understand why this is not a feature. Imagine being a teacher and have a full group of A$$Bu$ters 0345.
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I'm still waiting for using this software since 2 year, untill they won't do this change i'll don't use it. I think this voice chat could be the best one compare to every other V-Chat but i need to find my friend or it will be usefull. too messy for me.
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но как попасть на дескорд сервер и отправить заявку
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Oniguro : sure, I just provide a way to get the job done right now, while waiting discord developer to add features for advanced managing contact :D
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Came here because of this, really struggling with memory issues and when people change their names it causes absolute chaos. Steam allows you to rename contacts, it's fairly simple stuff guys - clicking on notes for 20 people in a channel really isn't workable :(
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Hee @Denyer, It seems - and I use Discord very sparingly - that our quest has come to an end. Without fuss I was able to change one of these very fantastic but very hard to remember-usernames into something that I *can* remember. This holds true for the Discord website and app. So give it a try.
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Hees I can see that if you right-click a username in the desktop app, there is an option to change their nickname. However, the name you choose only shows up in direct messages. While that's something, it's still not useful at all when you're in an active chat channel. In a channel, that person's username still shows, not the updated nickname. It's in channels with a bunch of users where renaming would really be useful, far more so than in a direct message where it's much more likely you know who you're talking to. So, I don't think the nickname approach really solves the issue here.
If you're seeing a way to rename people where it will show the new name in channels, please tell us the steps you took to do so.
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