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The whole friend request thing baffles me. The old system was quite good in this respect: if someone has display name bob, full username bob#1234, when you mist
by recursivecaveat 3y ago
The whole friend request thing baffles me. The old system was quite good in this respect: if someone has display name bob, full username bob#1234, when you mistakenly enter bob in the friend request field you'll get an error. Now bob is a totally valid username, and you can't disambiguate. The new system seems much more prone to more serious mistakes and impersonation. I would rather 100X go "whoops, need to add the discriminator" than once accidentally send something to a stranger meant for a friend.
- Operyl 3y agoThe big problem was case sensitivity in my opinion. It should have been case insensitive with discriminators. The current system means bob#1234 is a different user from Bob#1234.
- fafzv 3y agoIt's even worse that if you try to add bob#1234 and he doesn't exist because it's Bob the error message you get doesn't remind you usernames are case sensitive.
- cdash 3y agoNone of this should be an issue anyway, no one has any trouble linking discord server invites. Add the ability to easily link your user profile. Or even better, friend invites. Discord already has single use invites for servers. I doubt this change has anything to do with friend invites, they want to start adding features of other social media networks instead of just being a chat platform.