Discord’s New Usernames are Here…
Usernames are being rolled out and it is problematic to put it kindly.
The way Discord is releasing these new usernames is through a rollout system. Waves of people gain access to change their Discord username. However, many people realize that a ton of usernames are taken… What gives?
Well Discord has put in a fancy little reservation system which is so super clear and obvious and totally not making me want to smash my head against the wall. But it either completely screws you over, or it keeps your username safe and sound from people’s grimy mittens.
LINKS
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Discord Previews Server
https://discord.gg/discord-603970300668805120
SOCIALS
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Discord Server
https://discord.gg/B46HXK5fZm
Twitter
https://twitter.com/notexttospeech
TIMESTAMPS
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00:00 – Username Rollout
01:45 – Reserved Username System
03:55 – The Username Filter of all Time
04:14 – Harassment
05:35 – Rare Username Market
07:50 – 1 Letter Usernames
08:39 – Discord Staff Corrupt?1?1?!!?12!
10:44 – I drink gasoline
Also if you own a server with Server Subscriptions (and made some money like $100), then you would also get early access to usernames before everyone else.
fml
lol ok
Thank you for this, I now safely have my og name which I did not want to change
hey dude, how did you got capital letters in your username?
I don’t get why all platforms are being extremely anti-user right now all of a sudden.
I’m not dev but it seems like a pretty easy solution is for companies to not be stupid
Money
@Flutter Luvbreaddoesn’t explain why now
It’s all about money. Rising interest rates and inflation are hitting the tech industry hard right now, and they’re trying to squeeze every dime they can out of their customers (advertisers) and their product (users to advertise to) to appease their investors.
those companies make youtube look actually good…
Apparently Discord has been hiring ex-Meta managers as of late, which makes a lot of sense considering these changes.
I feel like it’s perfect chance for discord alternatives to strike
@Scortnent revolt is about to go crazy…
@Scortnent I hope they go bankrupt
@Synthix. // シンシックス。 i have the early adopter badge for revolt and honestly it’s ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
@Meta this is sort of the problem im seeing with places like lemmy
they got no traffic before so now they are not ready for an influx of users and it is designed for less users still, not more.
Non-unique usernames were one of the selling points of Discord back in the day, because it was meant to be a more intimate place to chat with your friends. Unique usernames would detract from that significantly. The reasons that Discord cited for this change don’t make sense either. I’ve never had an issue adding someone on Discord.
honestly this is an unfortunate case of: rare discord L.
@dreamin_jayden nah, discord takes plenty of Ls. This is just the most egregious one lately.
You never came across one of the people with an untypable username.
yeah, and if they wanted to make it easier to add people, they could’ve taken the route that things like roblox(bad example, ik) took, and made it so you can scan a QR code to add someone
@Ambrosia Palace Zonethose are not the kind of people you would want to add anyway
those names right there were one hell of a self-report
It’s funny how one of the reasons for the change was to make usernames more simple, but now people need to make more complicated usernames because their old ones are being sniped.
Your comment was made at 15:24 o clock
16:17
Discord trying to make good decisions: *IMPOSSIBLE*
Replace Discord with Big corporations and it still would make sense
Money, money and even more money.
Twitch and Reddit are also competing
Discord is like the dude who has money raining on them
you cant even enter capitals in ur user lmao
I just love their logic of “People are not able to have certain names because there already 9999 people who have it, so now instead of letting 9999 people having the name they wanted just let 1 person have it ! :D”.
A very smart decision if you ask me.
Just add another digit 💀
i think the point is that your display name can be anything, so everyone can have the same username. In their eyes the username is just a formality, like the discriminator
@BagelDog still stupid it was a mark of Discord display name was already a thing they dont even needed to that since every person as already a unique ID
Discord, Reddit, Twitch and Twitter are doing the “ruining the whole company” speedrun
Yessir
Twitter is better
@plutia I oppose to that
Literally
yes.
I think discord or the internet as a whole would make remarkably better decisions if they’d just, right before rolling out anything, ask themselves, “why is this necessary?”
but instead, they’re asking themselves “how should we justify our decision to the users?” to think of an excuse to a non-existent problem. really, this is honestly just a downgrade as discriminators allowed for 9999 of the same usernames, but now it has all just been reduced to one.
It’s not that they could just add one number. Not at all.
maybe if they pulled a poll for the people who actually use the app so we can have some input cus I havent seen a single person who likes this update
@RalverTTbecause there isn’t a single actual discord user who likes this update. But hey, they saved me 5$ every month, because now I stopped paying for my Nitro Classic.
What annoyed me the most now that the change is forced and no backing out is the lack of caps in the username.
A lot of usernames look bad without capitals and it just annoys me so much.
why? Nobody will see your username anyway… Unless you’re trying to say that the discriminator #5312 was more beautiful?
@Luxalpa It actually was, I loved the 6942 discriminators…
Same 😂 i was fully like oh come on. Now it just looks like a toddler typed it that doesn’t know what the caps is
@Luxalpa Anyone who clicks on your profile sees your username, that’s a lot more than nobody lol.
Discord could of allowed capitalization with this change but didn’t, and it annoys me as it makes a lot of usernames look visually worse.
Also I didn’t think having a number discrimintor looked bad, so yeah I guess I do think the old system was better because capitals were allowed for the text part.
Yeah my discord username looks bad without capital letters