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Completely agree. I loved Discord's unique and wonderful discriminator system for usernames. I imagine their current system would have worked if they had: 1) O

Completely agree. I loved Discord's unique and wonderful discriminator system for usernames. I imagine their current system would have worked if they had: 1) Only allowed ASCII characters without any case sensitivity 2) Required users to pick their own discriminator when they create an account, rather than having a default one automatically assigned to you (that you can change later) But I'm sure they looked at the difficulty of changing that and what it would mean to blow away everyone's current username and replace it with a mostly-identical looking system and decided that would be awful.

mvdtnz 3y ago
I feel like you're ignoring all of the downsides and problems with the username#discriminator system that are clearly laid out in the article. * Your solution doesn't solve the problem that nearly half of users don't know their discriminator or even know what that is * Busy usernames like Mike and Jane are still unavailable * They're still difficult and cumbersome to share offline (although slightly improved)
- reaperman 3y ago
  It solves the awareness problem by making them choose it when they create their account. If you need more, you can have a fun little animation that presents the finalized username + discriminator after it's created. Or show them how to add Tom from Myspace. I figured the "busy usernames" issue was a truly trivial problem solved by making the discriminator a 0 to 5-digit alphanumeric. Because the discriminator would be chosen by the user, it would only be as cumbersome as sharing a normal username or email. What I felt discord really needed was a way to send an invite link to be friends.
KomoD 3y ago
> 2) Required users to pick their own discriminator when they create an account, rather than having a default one automatically assigned to you (that you can change later) Well... you can if you pay them money

mvdtnz 3y ago

I feel like you're ignoring all of the downsides and problems with the username#discriminator system that are clearly laid out in the article. * Your solution doesn't solve the problem that nearly half of users don't know their discriminator or even know what that is * Busy usernames like Mike and Jane are still unavailable * They're still difficult and cumbersome to share offline (although slightly improved)

reaperman 3y ago
It solves the awareness problem by making them choose it when they create their account. If you need more, you can have a fun little animation that presents the finalized username + discriminator after it's created. Or show them how to add Tom from Myspace. I figured the "busy usernames" issue was a truly trivial problem solved by making the discriminator a 0 to 5-digit alphanumeric. Because the discriminator would be chosen by the user, it would only be as cumbersome as sharing a normal username or email. What I felt discord really needed was a way to send an invite link to be friends.

KomoD 3y ago

> 2) Required users to pick their own discriminator when they create an account, rather than having a default one automatically assigned to you (that you can change later) Well... you can if you pay them money