work and play profiles / aliases
basically a very simplified version of the proposal from here: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360053100693-Feature-proposal-for-account-alias-system?input_string=work%20and%20play%20aliased%20accounts
(simplified, because my proposal is a preset for two aliases (a work/fun switch); — it can also serve as a testing ground for the proposal from under the link.)
this is an issue for those of us who use discord for both work and fun — either you have two accounts and can only link one of them to a phone number (a lot of people don't have separate work/company phone numbers), or you're stuck on status: invisible + activity status: off + about me: empty.
maybe it'd be easier to introduce an option of aliased accounts? same number and email (an option to use two separate ones would require any verification to get a confirmation from both,) same user ID, but a different username and everything else — and a dot/counter for pending notifications for the other username, tied with a "switch profile" button.
and a way to integrate / divide already existing accounts.
account activity (rich presence) could be only available for the fun profile (if it's easier than making it toggleable), as it's reasonable to not want any "plays [game]" info on a work profile anyway. — just as much as a status/about-me like "looking for a party member for a DnD session, pls DM" to be visible to co-workers, — or "due to a deadline, this week's consultation hours moved to Wed-Fri 16-18" to be visible to all the users in game/fan servers.
the online status only for the alias/profile that the user is currently in, default invisible/offline/do-not-disturb for the other alias/profile.
this is inspired by major web browsers for PC - introducing togglable containers/workspaces for that exact purpose. (for Opera it's an build-in functionality, even, no extension required.)
I know that this would still take an enormous amount of coding, especially given that there's several platforms (all the apps and the browser version) to adjust there, and an enormous amount of code that'd need to be changed to make stuff like e.g. transfering servers to a specific profile — at all possible. Still, it's something to think of, as Discord's userbase and functionality is expanding.
Perhaps some of the code from Students Hubs could be re-used? I'm not sure what's the functionality of the Hubs, except for inapplicable-to-freelancers "same unique domain email" requirement (the one that was a major issue for schools that had all students' accounts set as no-reply for web security reasons)
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