Get rid of the four digit tag numbers at the end of usernames
This is so frustrating and the reason I took so long to join discord. The useless random numbers at the end of usernames.
When someone irl asks me for my social media, I tell them everything except for discord. Why? Because I can't remember than random 4 digit code at the end. The exact same thing happens when I ask other people. It has happened at least twice, I asked for their username and they just give me their username, not the last 4 digits, since they didn't choose the numbers, and thus, don't remember (or even know its a thing).
No other social media does this, and it makes adding people extremely difficult. There isn't even a reason for it that I can think of.
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The thread had sparked up again. This is a fascinating argument of stupidity that will eventually be lost in the vastness of the internet.
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For all the guys that are saying that this conversation is stupid, your attitude is toxic. The discussion you are creating is not constructive.
I feel like this thread is like trying to convince people from the the medieval age that the earth is spherical and not flat.
Everyone saying that the flat earth serves it's porpoise as a model, that there's no need to think about that, that he's the only one saying that so he must be wrong...It's impossible to make you understand the issue because you don't want to listen.
You are blinded by your comfort. @poochyena is proposing an improvement, that none of you is even trying to understand. He's not obsessed, he's willing to help the community, one that replied to him with disrespect.
It's very sad that discord has this type of community. Insulting someone because he's proposing an improvement. What the hell.
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Ok, I haven’t talked on this discussion post in months, and I am returning to it now.
We’re not listening? What? If you see my earlier posts in this discussion explaining things as thoroughly as I could, and everyone else who explained things in this thread, poochyena fought back every single time.
Both of you are stuck with the mindset that the tag is part of the username. Me and countless others have tried to explain otherwise. This is not a discussion if poochyena is not making the slightest attempt to open their mind and consider that the username, may indeed be seperate from the tag.
You guys are the toxic people here. We have wasted our time and effort to explain to you how doing this is completely unnecessary, and I can’t believe it’s still getting comments when this post was made years ago. Have you read this entire thread and seen everything going on?
One more thing: You guys aren’t stupid. A lot of people are saying that, but you aren’t stupid. And I’m not insulting you, either. I believe you guys are just misinformed people, and I wish for the day that someone will be able to educate you on this matter.
Good day.
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Ok, so here goes my take for anyone who comes here.
A while back, when Discord was getting started, the developers had a problem. Many people were going to want the same username, but would not be able to get it.
One way to solve this is like Twitter and the other examples. You could let users figure out a unique username. If bob was taken, you'd have to do bob1 or bob2 or so on. Then they could choose whatever display name they want.
The problem here is, many people are either lazy or not really interested in finding a new username. So Discord said all right. We'll let everybody choose any username, even if another user has it already. Because multiple people can be called Bob, we'll stick a four digit random number at the end. If you want your own number, you can pay for that.
You say this has no benefit. The benefit is that new users (and existing users) don't have to think when they choose a username. They can enter whatever they want.
I do not claim that this is a superior system to others. In fact it is just as viable a system as any other (including a unique username system). Since you, personally, may not be familiar with it, you may be confused by it. It is however a design decision consciously made by the Discord team. It works exactly as intended and takes the headache of finding a unique username away from the user. Personally I like it, because I don't want to deal with figuring out a warp on my username.
If you don't like the system, that is fine. It is your personal opinion. But many, many people do like it, or see nothing wrong with it at the least. So it has continued without issue.
If having complete autonomy over your username is so important to you, please choose another service. The system here is neither (from most people's perspective) stupid or redundant. It actually solves a problem. It may not be a problem that you have. But it is a problem some people have.
Cheers!
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mauriciabad is kind of right tho, my username is retro#3526, people should be able to search up retro and then there would be a list like
retro#3526
retro#3566
and whatever
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Yes!
It is so simple I dont know why we have 6 pages.
or everyone should have a unique username and a display name,
and then you can search for people username for more accurate search
and also have a list if you search by nickname then you can tell someone, I have a border collie dog profile picture.-3 -
You know what? I’m just going to give up. Username + tag is a design choice made by the Discord team that has worked for years. I’m not sure where all these people supporting the idea came from, but just to let you know, you have wasted people’s time trying to explain how things work around here. Really, I’m sure the only people who complain about this sort of thing are new to Discord and just aren’t used to the system. If you would rather not be involved in it, just don’t use it. It’s so simple. This entire thread is chaos, and I’m tired of dealing with people who refuse to listen. We all are.
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As much as poochyena seems overly stubborn about all of this, if you go to Discord and click to copy your username, it includes the tag. My username, according to Discord, is cuteapoot#1220
Poochyena started this whole thing being upset that they couldn't choose for their username to just be "poochyena." With a name like that, there was going to be a high chance that it would have been taken before they even signed up. So without the random tag, they would have been forced to choose a number, which would have become part of their username and could not be separated out into the "display name + unique identifier" format Discord uses. I personally really like the way Discord does it, because even if the #1220 is technically part of my username, within Discord itself it doesn't look like it is. I only see the full "cuteapoot#1220" when I copy/paste my username from Discord.
You all spent too much time arguing about the definition of a username instead of focusing on the real debate, which is whether it's better to force someone to choose a unique username themselves and set a separate display name, or let people choose the display name they want and assign random numbers in a half-hidden way like Discord does.I like not having the extra step of having to figure out a unique username myself if I'm just going to override it with a display name that's the same username without the unique numbers at the end. Poochyena seems to feel otherwise. I doubt Discord is going to change their system ever, so at this point the best any of us can do is choose to accept things as they are or just stop using Discord (which is probably going to be more and more difficult as it becomes more and more common for communities to use it).
Sorry for the extra ping, everyone. Hopefully this helps instead of just being more noise.
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The number is NOT part of your name.
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lmfao this thread thoo
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This was entertaining as heck.
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what the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
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cuteapoot, nice comment good point
everyone else please stop replying to this thread it spams up my email inbox and i can't turn it off
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Why.
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Just unsubcribe from it.
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It looks like @poochyena hasn't been active for 7 months now!
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This was the funniest thread I have ever seen.
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e_block you can literally just use one comment to say everything you just said. Instead, discord sent four individual emails to my inbox and I literally can't unsubscribe from the thread.
PLEASE STOP TRYING TO REVIVE THE POST? IT'S SO ANNOYING1 -
Mate, there's an unfollow button you can press next to the "Get rid of the four digit tag numbers at the end of usernames" at the top of the page. It says there are currently 67 people following this thread, one of them being me. Press it and, what do you know? You unsubscribe from the thread!2 -
I clicked 'unfollow' on this thread 3 months ago and I still get emails about it.
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What the f*** did I just witness?
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Maybe you witnessed chaos?
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Oh man. Very Good thread, better than the educational system.
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I just lost so many braincells from that
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Im not sure what I just witnessed but I think I now have like -99999 brain cells remaining
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I don't understand is this a joke or something? As literally every single person on this thread has said the numbers are there to make it so people can have the same username and be distinguished, not causing any system errors. the reason why other services don't have this is that only one username can be taken once while on discord you could have tons of usernames the same.(besides the number ITS WHAT MAKES THE ACCOUNTS DISTIGUISHABLE)
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I've been a Discord member for years now, and I've always hated this system. Not because we're forced to have numbers, but because Discord doesn't allow you to configure them to your liking at account creation.
I don't think that having them is bad per se, I like the obfuscation layer between my account and my email. It adds an extra layer of security in a world where our login credentials usually involve our email address. I like that I can give someone a unique identifier to look me up that isn't my email address. I like that the portion that makes each of the 9999 potential users of a name 'unique' is usually hidden from chat-logs, it definitely cleans up the text. Although, in the 15 or so years I've been using my name, it's been pretty rare that I haven't been able to get it. Facebook wouldn't give it to me when I needed an account with them to socialize on my Oculus Quest though. =(
For those saying that we can just get Nitro and set them to whatever, that's got a caveat. Once you do so, if you want your number to remain static, perhaps be something you can have posted in a social page- well then you can never cancel your Nitro.
Once you cancel your Nitro, they randomize your number. This is a deliberate blackmail of sorts, they are trying to make Nitro desirable by deliberately making the service less convenient for you if you don't pay for it. They hold your very identity hostage and take it from you if you choose not to pay.
Battle.net is the only other service that I am aware of using a similar system. A key difference is that they allow you to customize your number one time after creation for free. It's a permanent change that doesn't go away if you cancel a payment plan with them. They do charge more than Discord if you want to change it again, but since it's a one time fee and not a subscription that gives you a random tag after you cancel it, is it really more?
I've never been so silly as to believe they would make a change to this functionality. It exists in this form because they want it to. Randomizing your number when your Nitro expires is not accidental, it did require additional lines of code. This is a 'feature' that they benefit from.
I'd like them at the very least to not randomize your number after discontinuing Nitro. Optimally they would also give you one opportunity to set it to another number for free. I already gave up on hoping for this after I found out that they randomize your changed number when you cancel Nitro.
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Activision Blizzard is worth around 20 billion dollars and they have around 10,000 employees. They develop and publish video games. Their main focus is definitely not a chatting app like Discord.
Discord generates its revenue with the nitro subscriptions. They do not develop and publish games, they provide a chatting app. And they need to generate revenue. If they allow changing the discriminator for free, then most people wouldn't buy a nitro subscription because changing it is one of the main things about a nitro subscription.
Why the hell would you even complain about a companys main revenue model. Your comparison between Discord and Battle.net makes no sense at all.
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It seems like you only read a few sentences in my previous post. I already said that the purpose of this choice is to make money. They have a right to try and make money, and I have a right to not like the way they go about it.
At least in my case, their specific choices on how to design this subscription service has ensured that I will never pay for it a second time. I never suggested allowing limitless free changing of the discriminator. I despise systems that allow for limitless free changing of identity because it devalues identity. Given my previous post, it should be pretty obvious that I consider identity something to be valued.
FYI, I would pay for Nitro if the only thing I was paying for was animated emotes and server boosts. Nitro is pretty cheap, and I'm an adult with a job, so I can afford it. I don't like the way they hold identity hostage against a subscription fee and so I will never pay for another month of it, that's capitalism.
My comparison between the way Discord and Battle.net implement discriminators should be pretty obvious, they are the only other organization that I know of who uses a discriminator. I don't have any other entity to make a comparison against. Plus, they use a system that I approve of and it includes a system to gain revenue.
You argue that the scale invalidates the comparison, and I simply don't agree with you. My statement's in my previous post were never about what Discords revenue model should be. I'm not interested in designing a revenue model for Discord, they may hire me if they want that service; They won't. My statements were about how I would LIKE for their DISCRIMINATOR to work. A quite different issue. In fact, I explicitly stated that I don't have any expectation that they will change their system and that the reason for that is: that I see it as a deliberate choice on their part for the purpose of encouraging subscription.
Anyone who pays money for Nitro to change their identity is making a poor choice in my opinion. I have an optimistic view of the tightfisted nature of your average netizen, so I seriously doubt this perk is a major deciding factor in the decision process of most nitro purchasers. I do acknowledge I could be wrong though, perhaps people are really that stupid.
I'm not complaining about their revenue model, because I don't have a problem with it. Their model is to make money off of subscriptions that enhance their service. If you don't like that business model, then you're a masochist.
I was talking about how I would like their discriminator system to work. That's not their revenue model.
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I don't know why the little shits here are downvoting OP's suggestion. This has been bothering me a lot. Stupid hashtags. Just give us a unique username. I don't want another impersonator with same username with just different numbers.
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