New username rollout system was done with terrible forethought
I feel like the discord administration team really let the user base down here.
They lost a piece of their identity - the unique #### system made obtaining your username possible. Now, they've conformed to the username principles of every other website. It's honestly super sad and I feel like discord is losing its spark.
Further, the roll-out plan seems haphazard at best. A little warning would've been fantastic.
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"Haphazard" is putting a bit lightly, imo. The rollout was a complete disaster from what I've seen. Accounts from 2022 and 2023 getting access to names that were supposed to be reserved, 2015 users with active Nitro still not getting the username change option, usernames of popular Youtubers and content creators being swiped, etc. There are even 2015 - 2016 users with active Nitro in some of the servers I'm in, who have had their Nitro for years, who still haven't gotten the change while users from 2019 onward WITHOUT Nitro have already gotten to choose a username. Forget there being terrible forethought to this update, the reality of the matter is that it feels like NO thought was put into this update, at all.
How Discord could go from an actually functioning system that allowed anyone to get their desired username, to going backwards and reverting to the @/username system, is beyond me. I can't stand the pomelo system on any other site that utilizes it because it creates a market for "vanity" names and username blackmarkets, which is part of why Discord was so appealing to me in the first place. Because it didn't matter what the username was, many people could have it. Did that lead to impersonation? Yes, but the new system isn't eradicating that issue either, in fact it's made it worse because several well-known online profiles have had their usernames stolen from them.
Now, the system that made Discord appealing is gone because they'd rather revert to a system that cannot accommodate the needs of the massive online population instead of just add another 0 to the discriminator for reasons that weren't even an issue in the first place. The fact that Discord pushed this out despite the backlash makes it feel like this move was requested by whatever investors or stockholders are backing the service at this point. Clearly, this was not about the community in any capacity. If it was, the 50k upvoted thread protesting the change and all of the feedback on WHY this change was a terrible idea, along with the backlash on other sites, would have had more success in making the staff re-evaluate the change.
It also did feel like it came out very suddenly. I only found out about it when I did because someone in a server linked the blog post about it, but the actual announcement on Discord itself didn't show up for a week or two after the blog post was made and by then there was little to no time to react before the change starting hitting peoples' accounts.
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I’m praying they just recognize the mistake and rollback to snapshot.
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I think the product owners of Discord have no clue about how developing a good app...
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I really felt bad when I saw that they changed their name format. It's something that I really loved about discord as it was one of the things that made it so unique. Now the names I'm seeing my friends have look like as if they are using Instagram. Like we already have an Instagram, we don't need another. I really hope Discord would go back to the previous format as it was.
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