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I don’t trust that discord will prompt for handle changes fairly. They say that preference will be given based on registration date but don’t say that’s the on
by prepend 4y ago
I don’t trust that discord will prompt for handle changes fairly.
They say that preference will be given based on registration date but don’t say that’s the only preference.
It’s rolling out over months so it will be impossible to audit or test.
My fear is that preference will be given and even though I’ve used discord for many years my handle will be taken by someone else.
The lameness is that they are doing an unfair landgrab where people won’t know if their handle is safe or not for some unpredictable amount of time.
My feeling though is that most people don’t care about their handle based on all the “blarghy1988111” handles that I see.
- 0x_rs 4y ago>They say that preference will be given based on registration date but don’t say that’s the only preference. From a later modification to the announcement not present originally[0], early access will be given to users that were uninterrupted Nitro subscribers before March 1st, too, which of course nobody could've predicted would result in this benefit, already an indication the migration was poorly thought out. 0. https://web.archive.org/web/20230504043331/https://discord.com/blog/usernames https://web.archive.org/web/20230504043331/https://discord.c...
- prepend 4y agoWow, that’s even worse as it means people paid to skip the line. It’s weird that they are only rewarding historical nitro users rather than letting people pay now. Nitro is a weird product offering as it really seems like no benefit to paying. But people do.
- eximius 4y agoDisclaimer: I think this change is extremely dumb and alienating to their core users in a feeble attempt to fix a problem that doesn't exist. That said, you kind of identified why they're only rewarding historical nitro users. Because it is historical, the nitro users aren't paying to skip the line - they couldn't have, it was in the past before this was announced. Instead, they are saying "you were already paying for a feature involving the discriminator, which we're removing, so you are getting priority". Frankly, that is one of the very few things about this they are doing right.
- Zpalmtree 4y agoThere is clearly a benefit for paying its just a very expensive one.
- andreareina 4y agoAnecdotally the big draw is custom emoji you can use everywhere
- the_only_law 4y agoOh great, I’ve been using discord since it was in beta, but sadly my nitro got interrupted thanks to a lost card. Guess I won’t be seeing it soon.