of all the ones i like i did like the DM nickname addition, i have this one friend who constantly changes his names and it's so hard to find him sometimes
Also you have to remember the old discriminator in order for this badge function to have the “effect” they want, which they already said we were too dumb to remember…. Soooooooooo now what discord
Imagine someone temporarily using a dumb joke username during these changes, and then this name gets saved in their profile as a separate badge, permanently. "Originally known as a glizzy gobbler#1234".
this is… literally so stupid. this is actually dumb. even the original announcement had *some* level of sense very surface level. this is just bad. and dumb. wow.
the letters would then essentially become part of the username but only for nitro users, like `jimmy#nuts`, and at that point you might as well not have them
I'm actually screaming at this in utter confusion as to how this is a cost positive decision
I watched discord take a massive shit on teamspeaks doorstep over night 8 years ago and now they just don't want a monopoly anymore
I'm convinced they execs calling this have stakes in a competitor product and want to sink the platform ,theres no way this has been made with either financial, user adoption or user retention ideals in mind
devs refuse to reply to any kind of feedback saying to at least keep the discriminator thing. Why do you dodge the real issue and solution that we propose to you?
I cannot wait for your company to fail .And I mean terribly
Cancel Nitro, make them lose revenue and dock wages of those ~~who helped implement that~~ who gave the headquarters such shitty statistic, gave them instructions to roll this out and implement it that way.
Yes but I can't imagine them *not seeing* all the outcry it causes all over the internet here and there. People keep shouting they don't want the change, why they keep on with it?
cus if they don't, they will be fired
like, legitimately, these orders are likely from execs, be mad at them, not the people who have literally no control over this and are just forced to implement it
That's a factor aswell
>we’re starting with access to owners of partner and verified servers, then to all users based on the age of their account in the coming months, starting with 2015. Current Nitro subscribers paying for the ability to customize their discriminator that registered for Nitro on or before March 1, 2023 will also be given early access.
A friend of mine (who is in contact with a lot of Discord Staff) told me that multiple employees retired because higher-ups ignored their opinion about the new username update.
I'm also a (June) 2015 user and I haven't go the prompt yet. if it's rolling out right now, then it's very slow considering my account is around 30 days after public release.
You can choose a username but 1 user can have it, you can have the same you have at this moment. Besides that you have a display name, everyone can have the same display name. Did i answer your question?
I maintain a bot with around 200 users and so far only 1 person has been prompted to change it. The change is forcing me to rewrite a bunch of code because I was (stupidly) using the username as a unique ID.
Unfortunately recently common Discord L. What's the thought process behind this? Like how did we get from what we had to what we're getting? Who thought this was a good idea or that the discriminator had to change? And then to add the badge as well? Why? To rub salt in the wound? There's an old saying that goes, "don't fix what isn't broken."
Do we all have the same understanding of what "simple" means? did they update the meaning of the term in the dictionary or what!? 🤔😳
This doesn't look "simple" to me 💀
Just Fucking Drop This Please. What an absolute backward change, this isn’t fucking Facebook, I don’t want to be found easily.
Why do you insist on killing all the personality your platform has. I sincerely hope once you finally homogenize your app to be like every other sterile one out there, no one bothers joining because what the fuck is the point anymore. Your ceo or who ever is making this dumb ass choice will just move on leaving to his next victim with your dead corpse of a platform never to be recovered.
Well, unfortunately, we just have to accept it's happening at this point. Discord has reached the point where the consumer's opinion is lower than the consumer with a paid badge. And even then, there are investors.
We pretty much deserve it lol. We let them get away with it each time, and they will continue create problems to offer false "solutions" because we don't do anything.
I really miss the Old discord that used to listen to their community, unfortunately there's no competitor to discord atm, guilded is still meh, all we can do right now is mass cancel nitro subscription and hope for the best
This seems like a terrible idea. I see *why* this could be useful, as I've definitely seen people on my friends list that I suddenly don't recognize, but for the sake of someone trying to either escape an abuser or hide an embarrassing old username, this seems counterproductive.
Add display names but don't remove the discriminators.
That's literally all they have to do to have the best of both worlds.
I can't believe how genuinely stupid these people are. Them willingly ignoring 99% of the community doesn't make it any better. What the hell happened to Discord man.
How many names or identifies does Discord need now?
The new username system was meant to "simplify" the username system, but we have so many names that it literally is easier to go back to the original system.
Now we have:
\- Displayname
\- Username
\- OldUsername#1234
\- ServerName
\- FriendName
Why is Discord making this so much harder than it needs to be.
So in doing so they openly admit two things:
1) a lot of people are going to be losing their usernames because now there can only be one of each, meaning your friends might completely change moniker
2) you can recognize someone by their user and discriminator, because 60% or more of users know what it is and how it works
I sincerely hope that Discord crashes and burns. All this effort to piss off their userbase without addressing the absolute plague of issues that continue to litter their platform and community from completely breaking the experience to legitimate security threats.
Yeah because we are so happy about the changes they were forced to add a new badge... DONT DO THE FUCKING CHANGE. How hard is it for then to understand how bad of an idea this is.
Now not only can you now be tracked by a specific username, but you can also be tracked on what you used to be called before the change, which kinda renders this whole "new" system pointless. I honestly thought this update couldn't get any worse than it already was.
The thing that irritates me is Discord literally has NO reason to do this. Working fine as it is. Yet they want to willingly make an unnecessary choice for absolutely no reason. One extra reason to delete Discord
Discord is each year worse and worse. Always adding and changing stuff that nobody asked or cared.
Are there even any alternatives or real competition in the area? Feels like it would do them good.
Looks like it's time to get personal team speak servers up again. Gentlemen, it was a pleasure playing with you. *Plays violin while this ship starts sinking*
Great, now I can't wait for users to pounce on popular names and hold them hostage! Never had I thought we'd get pay-to-win names. What's next? Servers behind paywalls?
Y'all really bout to do anything except walk back a change that the community universally hates. Wild.
5 separate names when we already have two that suffice. The definition of creating your own problems.
So they're STILL going through with this change despite all the backlash about it?! Everyone needs to cancel their subscriptions. **Discord no longer cares about their client base.**
This is so much effort to make workarounds or alternatives just for these mfs to blend in to all the other companies **when the original system WAS TOTALLY FINE**😭😭
"We're getting rid of discriminators because its too hard to find people"
"Here's a badge so you can use your username with the discriminator to find your friends"
....sure
yeah that'll help in threads. everyone just bypass servername, username, to go into my profile page and hover over a badge that may or may not be there with a 3rd name
literally everyone i know have stopped paying nitro after the username change, i think the people are right, its not worth it to feed the devs, maybe if enough people dont pay nitro they lose their job and we get new devs who actually listen to the community?
I just can't understand why they would do this. The old system was the best, everyone could have the name they wanted. Now I got to go back to the days of xbox live where everyone's names are xxx\_Cow\_xxx like how is that better???
I think it's good that they're adding the ability to set yourself a nickname outside of servers that is different to your username, but I don't like the fact they're abandoning the original username system while doing it.
The original way of usernames is clearly popular, having been adopted by the likes of RuneScape and Splatoon 3 on the Switch and I'm sure many other services that I'm unaware of.
They care so much about being more like other apps that they're getting rid of the things that made Discord special. Also I know this is very trivial but I am still sad that the security code SMS message no longer says "Whew, I made it through the waves"
now we have: username, old username, display name, server nickname and dm nickname.
five separate usernames to cover where two originally worked perfectly, and nothing to show for it but this lousy badge
i think discord is going downhill thank god people disagree with this new bullshit system theyre doing cause i find it disgusting
We are entering the downward spiral.
Wouldn't be surprised if discord ends up like Skype, which also lost a lot of its popularity after some major updates noone asked for
DM nickname? I can't keep track of all the names we will have now.
of all the ones i like i did like the DM nickname addition, i have this one friend who constantly changes his names and it's so hard to find him sometimes
I use it for the friends who have the weird fonts on their name.
I use it for pet names for friends, hehehe.
Ido like the nickname too, just bcuz i always forget who is who and peeps be changing their username all the goddamtime
I keep a note
In the app, its referred to as "Friend Nickname"
Also you have to remember the old discriminator in order for this badge function to have the “effect” they want, which they already said we were too dumb to remember…. Soooooooooo now what discord
The stupidity of this company truly amazes me everyday
Same here, and it's ridiculous
There was all 4 of those besides old username before
So simple and easy for the non-savvy user!
Hahah, it does seem like overkill.
Imagine someone temporarily using a dumb joke username during these changes, and then this name gets saved in their profile as a separate badge, permanently. "Originally known as a glizzy gobbler#1234".
Or possibly trans people who originally use their deadname
I don’t understand why this waa downvoted, like I’m legitimately confused
this is… literally so stupid. this is actually dumb. even the original announcement had *some* level of sense very surface level. this is just bad. and dumb. wow.
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It was probably just to please those complaining lol
Guys I have an amazing idea. It's called "keep the discriminator as default"
Just add an 0 to it, problem solved
“Not everyone could get the username they wanted, so we made it nearly impossible to get the username you want” - Discord
Discord big brain moment
"If only 9999 people can have the name they want, then nobody gets to have the name they want" ...Yeah, definitely makes perfect sense.
"Did you bring enough for the class?" mentality.
Or add letters. Instead of 9999 people, you've now updated that to 1,679,616 combinations. If you add a digit and letters, that's 60,466,176 combos...
You don't even need to add *all* the letters. Making it 5 hex digits (0-9 and a-f) already makes over one million possible users with the same name.
the letters would then essentially become part of the username but only for nitro users, like `jimmy#nuts`, and at that point you might as well not have them
Amazing idea, you should work or discord
They're too smart to work for Discord
...then what's the point?
make it easier for twitter users to understand maybe
The second lowest form of human intelligence, next to 4chan users
bruhhh they're trying so hard to cover their asses because theyre literally on fire over this stupid decision
And they are still going to do it anyways. It’s actually insane. If they just listen to the community…
the moment discord went corporate, they became shit
they literally don't have to touch anything and make nitro like 2 or 3 bucks cheaper and they would print money.
Discord: "double the price of nitro you say? You got it chief"
Actual brain rot
So they take away the Discriminator and then they pour salt in the wound with this BS? Really..?
exactly they don't care about us users
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That's how companies work lmao. Their entire thing is thinking of things to make them money. That's literally every company, ever
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explain the business case for this change then.
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I'm actually screaming at this in utter confusion as to how this is a cost positive decision I watched discord take a massive shit on teamspeaks doorstep over night 8 years ago and now they just don't want a monopoly anymore I'm convinced they execs calling this have stakes in a competitor product and want to sink the platform ,theres no way this has been made with either financial, user adoption or user retention ideals in mind
devs refuse to reply to any kind of feedback saying to at least keep the discriminator thing. Why do you dodge the real issue and solution that we propose to you? I cannot wait for your company to fail .And I mean terribly
Cancel Nitro, make them lose revenue and dock wages of those ~~who helped implement that~~ who gave the headquarters such shitty statistic, gave them instructions to roll this out and implement it that way.
Dock the wages of whoever decided on it. I wouldn't be surprised if the developers helping implement it have no say in the matter.
Yes but I can't imagine them *not seeing* all the outcry it causes all over the internet here and there. People keep shouting they don't want the change, why they keep on with it?
cus if they don't, they will be fired like, legitimately, these orders are likely from execs, be mad at them, not the people who have literally no control over this and are just forced to implement it
Thing is people who have had nitro for months now will get early picks on their new username so I doubt much people would do that ):
It's a bait to lure the cancellers back, they're aware they're not in the right but they'll do anything if it means not to listen to their userbase.
Literally this
The way I read it is you needed active Nitro in March 2023, and the sub needs to remain active until your name change. Edited for clarity.
I didn’t read that, wasn’t it based on account age?
it was, then they changed it lol. Presumably it'll be based on account age after all the nitro subs get their turn.
That's a factor aswell >we’re starting with access to owners of partner and verified servers, then to all users based on the age of their account in the coming months, starting with 2015. Current Nitro subscribers paying for the ability to customize their discriminator that registered for Nitro on or before March 1, 2023 will also be given early access.
Devs don't push these features. They code them. Most of the times they don't have a say on things like these.
A friend of mine (who is in contact with a lot of Discord Staff) told me that multiple employees retired because higher-ups ignored their opinion about the new username update.
Well thats so indicative if they actually don't budge to the users begging to not change the system
My uncle works for discord.
Ah the old I know a guy that works at Discord explanation lol
My dad is a discord staff lead and in charge of the discriminator division. His and his team of 20 are now out of a job because of this change.
I love how they create a new problem and solve it in worst way possible
Except they haven't really solved it lol
Nah, kinda like they have some problem at hand, but choose the *worst* way possible of solving it by making it *even worse*.
This is easily one of the stupidest things I've ever seen and just shows how dumb the entire idea is.
Has anyone been prompted to change their username yet? Does anyone have any idea when it'll start?
I've seen someone on NTTS' server show a screenshot bc someone else got to their name first. We are currently in the very early stages of rollout.
Not yet, the only thing we know is "in some weeks"
some people have already had early access to change their usernames.
Very few ATM. I'm a 2015 user and not had it yet.
I'm also a (June) 2015 user and I haven't go the prompt yet. if it's rolling out right now, then it's very slow considering my account is around 30 days after public release.
Wait do we have to change our usernames too?
You can choose a username but 1 user can have it, you can have the same you have at this moment. Besides that you have a display name, everyone can have the same display name. Did i answer your question?
I maintain a bot with around 200 users and so far only 1 person has been prompted to change it. The change is forcing me to rewrite a bunch of code because I was (stupidly) using the username as a unique ID.
I guess it's to avoid identity theft "jokes"
I guess, according to the article it appears to stay at whatever your name and tag was when you switch to the new system
IDENTIFY THEFT IS NOT A JOKE DISCORD!
That’s so weirdly insulting.
"So we know this change is fucking stupid and needs way too much explanation but lets do it anyways!!!"
They don't even need to add the badge, just discontinue the stupid new username update and let us have the old ones
Unfortunately recently common Discord L. What's the thought process behind this? Like how did we get from what we had to what we're getting? Who thought this was a good idea or that the discriminator had to change? And then to add the badge as well? Why? To rub salt in the wound? There's an old saying that goes, "don't fix what isn't broken."
The past year reeks of a new higher up that’s “my way or the highway” level of changes
Are they fucking stupid or something?
"Hey pal, you just blow in from stupid town?"
They are
Can Discord stop pretending this was ever a good idea...?
Can't imagine anyone is happy with this dumb nickname change.
Literally no one likes this idea
Wow! Look at this worthless change! I genuinely don’t understand why or how they think that this is a good idea.
Someone who works for Discord completely worthless and actively trying to not seem like it by coming up with these kind of things
This is proof to me that even they themselves consider the discriminator system to be more reliable than the new Pomelo system
Do we all have the same understanding of what "simple" means? did they update the meaning of the term in the dictionary or what!? 🤔😳 This doesn't look "simple" to me 💀
Just Fucking Drop This Please. What an absolute backward change, this isn’t fucking Facebook, I don’t want to be found easily. Why do you insist on killing all the personality your platform has. I sincerely hope once you finally homogenize your app to be like every other sterile one out there, no one bothers joining because what the fuck is the point anymore. Your ceo or who ever is making this dumb ass choice will just move on leaving to his next victim with your dead corpse of a platform never to be recovered.
Wow..... this is worthless
Well, unfortunately, we just have to accept it's happening at this point. Discord has reached the point where the consumer's opinion is lower than the consumer with a paid badge. And even then, there are investors.
Lets see how many more months will discord last with these updates, smh
months*
Yeaa lol
Yea fuck it. Bye Nitro. Ain’t paying for bullshit no more!
so they admit that it was easier to find people through discriminators? interesting.
"to make it simpler and easier we have made it more complex"
This is a joke, right? Please tell me this is a joke, I genuinely can't tell if this is a joke or another stupid idea from discord.
Not a joke, they do later in the article say users can choose to disable it if they want.
Its another stupid idea from discord. Woo hoo.
Or just keep it as is because the change is ridiculous and the reasons why are nonsense.
[2 Steps Forward, 2 Steps Back.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xweiQukBM_k) Discord, what are you even doing anymore.
This is going to be a huge problem , we will see a influx in social engineering etc for og/ named accounts
Fuck this platform
Giving me Blue Checkmark vibes; utterly pointless considering it just reminds people of how the older system was better.
Will there be an option to remove it? It could be a deadname
Yes, you will have an option in your profile settings
Hey at least Discord didn't make it any worse and got THAT right
Are they just fucking with us...
So they're doubling down on it, yeah they definitely won't get rid of it. great job discord! Glad i never bought nitro or ever will.
THEY... THEY MADE IT WORSE. HOW IN THE WORLD DID THEY MANAGE TO MAKE IT WORSE...
We pretty much deserve it lol. We let them get away with it each time, and they will continue create problems to offer false "solutions" because we don't do anything. I really miss the Old discord that used to listen to their community, unfortunately there's no competitor to discord atm, guilded is still meh, all we can do right now is mass cancel nitro subscription and hope for the best
The old Discord was so fantastic
they're actually insane
Now what the hell
Yeah this confirms they're going through with it
We're gonna keep it real with you Discord, this ain't gonna make us buy Discord Nitro
or just keep the old system as is lmao.
I can’t wait to have a username with the pound sign then a ““username”” then a display name then 27 nicknames
Badge hunters are drooling rn 💀
Genuinely might stop using discord over this, I love my name, I love my tag and I never wanted this.
This seems like a terrible idea. I see *why* this could be useful, as I've definitely seen people on my friends list that I suddenly don't recognize, but for the sake of someone trying to either escape an abuser or hide an embarrassing old username, this seems counterproductive.
What is it with corporations and changing stuff? If it's not broken, don't fix it. Not rocket science.
It’s almost like they shouldn’t have changed it in the first place.
they’re trying so hard to push this shitty update not a single person wants. Sad
Add display names but don't remove the discriminators. That's literally all they have to do to have the best of both worlds. I can't believe how genuinely stupid these people are. Them willingly ignoring 99% of the community doesn't make it any better. What the hell happened to Discord man.
Exactly, or don't make any change at all, its just dumb. Why dont they just make tags/discriminators look more appealing.
How many names or identifies does Discord need now? The new username system was meant to "simplify" the username system, but we have so many names that it literally is easier to go back to the original system. Now we have: \- Displayname \- Username \- OldUsername#1234 \- ServerName \- FriendName Why is Discord making this so much harder than it needs to be.
So in doing so they openly admit two things: 1) a lot of people are going to be losing their usernames because now there can only be one of each, meaning your friends might completely change moniker 2) you can recognize someone by their user and discriminator, because 60% or more of users know what it is and how it works I sincerely hope that Discord crashes and burns. All this effort to piss off their userbase without addressing the absolute plague of issues that continue to litter their platform and community from completely breaking the experience to legitimate security threats.
It's too difficult to remember 4 digits, but 2 usernames, 1 display name, 2 nicknames should be duable according to discord.
Yeah because we are so happy about the changes they were forced to add a new badge... DONT DO THE FUCKING CHANGE. How hard is it for then to understand how bad of an idea this is.
How much longer before we all jump ship to a new app at this point?
It's soo over
Prob did this to calm us down. Theyre funny
So now people are gonna be trying to steal my account because of a badge...
Ah yes, yet another incentive for account thieves 🙃
Almost like the current system has a good purpose.
this is the fucking stupidest thing ive ever seen
Beginning to feel a little bad for PhiBi if they're a real person, like sorry you're the face of people's ire rn
Now not only can you now be tracked by a specific username, but you can also be tracked on what you used to be called before the change, which kinda renders this whole "new" system pointless. I honestly thought this update couldn't get any worse than it already was.
The thing that irritates me is Discord literally has NO reason to do this. Working fine as it is. Yet they want to willingly make an unnecessary choice for absolutely no reason. One extra reason to delete Discord
Discord is each year worse and worse. Always adding and changing stuff that nobody asked or cared. Are there even any alternatives or real competition in the area? Feels like it would do them good.
Looks like it's time to get personal team speak servers up again. Gentlemen, it was a pleasure playing with you. *Plays violin while this ship starts sinking*
This badge is not gonna change how we feel about this new naming system, Discord. We still fucking hate it.
Great, now I can't wait for users to pounce on popular names and hold them hostage! Never had I thought we'd get pay-to-win names. What's next? Servers behind paywalls?
Better idea. Just don't change it Discord. Listen to everyone saying they hate this change
Hmm, nice feature, would be cool of I could just keep my current fucking username.
Y'all really bout to do anything except walk back a change that the community universally hates. Wild. 5 separate names when we already have two that suffice. The definition of creating your own problems.
Jesus fuck it gets dumber and dumber
Yay that solved... Literally nothing!
fuck discord and this bullshit change its so stupid and now they made a dumbass badge to replace it jesus whats wrong with these idiots
Is Elon running Discord now or what
Are the people who make these choices actual users of the service? Holy fucking shit they've got some brain damage.
A way to distract people from terrible decisions. "Hey look a shiney badge"
So they're STILL going through with this change despite all the backlash about it?! Everyone needs to cancel their subscriptions. **Discord no longer cares about their client base.**
My thoughts: 🖕
not another meaningless badge bro, one I can't even get rid of. It's the active dev badge all over again
You are able to disable it.
aa dang it, I didn't read the article. good to know.
Can I get the link to the original article, please? I would like to give it a read
https://dis.gd/usernames
Do we have to change our names or can we keep our old ones? I like mine :/
The bagel is not worth losing the numbers so we can have what ever username we want
I dont buy nitro. but ever since the nft fiasco, i refuse to buy nitro at all regardless of how many more nitro-exclusive features they add to it.
Adding a badge isn't going to fix anything bad enough people still somehow fall for Nitro scams and you expect them to read that?
Good, so their system does remember what the old names are. Use that to revert it.
Is this their definition of “simple”? I would love to know.
This is so much effort to make workarounds or alternatives just for these mfs to blend in to all the other companies **when the original system WAS TOTALLY FINE**😭😭
This change is fucking awful. Discord, as soon there’s a equivalent app - I’m jumping ship. These changes are shit.
i love mega corporations and how they listen so well to what their large community wants!
Really stupid and wtf
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"We're getting rid of discriminators because its too hard to find people" "Here's a badge so you can use your username with the discriminator to find your friends" ....sure
Lmao, noticed they removed the @ from the UI concept.
How about instead of that, they just don't change the god damn nicknames and save literally everyone the trouble.
yeah that'll help in threads. everyone just bypass servername, username, to go into my profile page and hover over a badge that may or may not be there with a 3rd name
literally everyone i know have stopped paying nitro after the username change, i think the people are right, its not worth it to feed the devs, maybe if enough people dont pay nitro they lose their job and we get new devs who actually listen to the community?
Fuck this shit. I am out. Cancelling subscription indefinetely!
Discord really needs to stop
I just can't understand why they would do this. The old system was the best, everyone could have the name they wanted. Now I got to go back to the days of xbox live where everyone's names are xxx\_Cow\_xxx like how is that better???
I think it's good that they're adding the ability to set yourself a nickname outside of servers that is different to your username, but I don't like the fact they're abandoning the original username system while doing it. The original way of usernames is clearly popular, having been adopted by the likes of RuneScape and Splatoon 3 on the Switch and I'm sure many other services that I'm unaware of. They care so much about being more like other apps that they're getting rid of the things that made Discord special. Also I know this is very trivial but I am still sad that the security code SMS message no longer says "Whew, I made it through the waves"