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The numbers were nice for that because they'd get out of the way when not needed, unlike if they were embedded in your username. Sometimes you want to just be
by Macha 4y ago
The numbers were nice for that because they'd get out of the way when not needed, unlike if they were embedded in your username.
Sometimes you want to just be Susie around your friends, rather than having to think of a clever/unique variant.
And I'm saying that as someone with a very early account who actually stands a very good chance under this system of just grabbing my moderately common first name as the screen name.
- fouric 4y ago> Sometimes you want to just be Susie around your friend You can do that with the proposed system, because your display name can be anything you want and doesn't have to be unique.
- Dylan16807 4y agoYou still have a pick a unique username and they'll all see it. You can't just pick Susie and let the discriminator happen.
- mikalauskas 4y agoYou can use Susie74514 as your username and Susie as your display name
- throw10920 3y agoExactly correct. I don't think that Dylan16807 read the blog post that explained how the system works, because Discord made it very clear that the display name was meant to be used in most cases for most things.