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I think the Discord team is underestimating how much people crave having the exact username they want. This change wants to emphasize "display names", but I don

by aquova 3y ago

I think the Discord team is underestimating how much people crave having the exact username they want. This change wants to emphasize "display names", but I don't think that will really matter to people (including myself). Discord's discriminator was clever, and I would rather see them expand it to six digits or hexadecimal to give more people access to the same names, rather than remove it altogether. The only real argument is that people don't know how to share them, but I don't think the confusion of copy and pasting a four digit number is worth removing the benefits. I hope they rethink this.

duckmysick 3y ago
> The only real argument is that people don't know how to share them Aside from copy-pasting, I was thinking QR codes would be good too. Although, Discord already uses QR codes to log users in on other devices. Maybe they were afraid it would confuse users and create new scams. I still think between copy-pasting and QR codes, sharing complex strings (like emails, urls, usernames) is a solved problem.