First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

  • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de
    8·
    2 years ago

    Discord’s been going very downhill for years, and recently made a wider known awful change (although not too impactful). Wonder when they will be going too far with things like “Mee6” and “Nitro”.

      • BinaryEnthusiast@beehaw.org
        6·
        2 years ago

        They are changing the way usernames are being handled. Instead of letting them be whatever you want with the identifying tag after it, they are requiring it to be a unique username

        • Hyperz@beehaw.orgEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          Oh right, that change. I personally didn’t think that was a big deal. Instead of having Username#1234 now you might have Username_1234. What am I missing?

          • BinaryEnthusiast@beehaw.orgEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            It’s one of those “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” kind of changes. It’s just a weird one to suddenly push onto a platform, especially when the previous solution is better in every single way

            • Hyperz@beehaw.orgEnglish
              5·
              2 years ago

              True. But I can somewhat understand why they’re changing it. When they started working on Discord they probably didn’t think it would blow up the way it did. The use of the discriminator is probably a bit confusing for some less tech savvy people. And @username has pretty much become the standard everywhere 🤷‍♂️

              • EvilColeslaw@beehaw.orgEnglish
                4·
                2 years ago

                Someone pointed it out to me recently the discriminator probably isn’t the driver for the change. The real driver is they committed a very dumb mistake originally, with regards to capitalization in usernames.

                For example, in Discord the user names Hyperz, HyperZ, hyperz, hyperZ, HYperz, etc… can all be distinct usernames.

              • ClammyMantis488@beehaw.orgEnglish
                3·
                2 years ago

                I feel like if discord just did a better job of explaining it, then there wouldn’t be any problem. I’ve heard it’s a problem for content creators as well because they could remain semi anonymous by being pewdiepie#6381 but now they have to be @pewdiepie and actively claim that or else it sells on markets for thousands. That’s another problem, now username sellers will be a thing, when they weren’t before. Personally I’m kind of upset by this change. If it was about the weird ASCII characters people have in their names, why not restrict it. Most people don’t have them so they would be unaffected.

                • Gork@beehaw.orgEnglish
                  1·
                  2 years ago

                  Me too. It also contributes to the inevitable crisis of username unavailability over the years. With the # discriminator you didn’t have to worry about running out of your unique username. And it also helps future generations long after we’re all gone from this planet.

                  • Hyperz@beehaw.orgEnglish
                    1·
                    2 years ago

                    This is the issue I don’t understand. I mean, I get your point. But when you can set your display name to whatever you like on servers anyway, what does it matter what your handle is? I don’t think having 1 million Johns with different discriminators is any better than having @john through @john1000000.

              • BinaryEnthusiast@beehaw.orgEnglish
                2·
                2 years ago

                Yeah that’s definitely fair. It could make it a pain trying to deal with impersonators as well now that discord has become massive