I don’t get their motivation behind this change. I mean I read the write-up they posted, but I don’t get how they could seriously think this is a better experience for users.
Their blogpost was complete gaslight, none of the points they listed made any sense.
It was literally just look more like a mainstream social platform, there are rumours of an IPO…
Oh good, Discord is gonna blow itself up. Maybe we can all go back to Mumble and IRC once it’s all over.
Epic, another shittification speedrun?
Twitter, Reddit and Discord in the span of one year? Great…
Edit: sorry to be Reddit-pedantic but it’s enshittificarion
it’s a better experience for corpos that want their brand name to be uniquely identifiable.
I don’t find the previous system even difficult to navigate. I guess Discord is looking IPO since standard usernames are easier to digest or something…
they still haven’t given me the option to “update” my name yet lol
It’s based on nitro but also how old your account is. I don’t have nitro but joined in 2016 and got a message to update mine last week
oh my old discord account was banned a while back so I had made a new one lol. I guess that’s why. I also don’t pay for nitro.
Yeah me neither actually. Everybody I talk to had to tho lol
yup I see a lot of people with it already
“try adding numbers”
It HAD numbers, you picked those numbers!!
They even let us pick the numbers! That’s why I got Nitro originally! I’d have never paid for years of nitro without that feature, in fact.
Even though I got “pussyslayer69”, I still miss the “#6969” :'(
Can’t you just add the numbers back yourself and set a displayname without it?
I wish revolt was more popular smh
They recently added display names while keeping the tags as a direct ‘fuck you’ to discord lol
lets all be real. non-unique names what makes discord real discord and what also eliminates unique name marketing or targetting
I barely got my username with one character change.
I thought about trying tobdo mine with the pound sign followed by the original numbers but oddly MacDougal was available still so i ran with it
Try revolt. I’ve used it, and it seems like a great alternative. They recently added the numbers, lol. https://revolt.chat
I frankly have no idea why you would prefer it over Discord other than open source access. Revolt dissuades from self-hosting, is non-federating, has no stable business model and lacks in features. It is a prototype for a future where Discord catastrophically burns down.
I still don’t understand why people are so mad at this.
Before you were forced to have numbers in your name and now you get a choice, the numbers aren’t forced on you.
Isn’t more choice better?
yes, but people like to complain.
I think the change was good, but giving Nitro users the option to choose months in advance was really dumb.
Let’s be real - it literally makes no difference at all. I don’t know why they did it considering it makes absolutely 0 difference from a user standpoint.
