Discord is forcing everybody to alter their usernames

You higher begin planning your new Discord username now.

That is as a result of the favored gaming-centric chat app is present process a significant change over the approaching weeks, per a Discord weblog submit(opens in a brand new tab). Particularly, the four-digit “discriminator” code on the finish of each username goes away. On account of this, each consumer should choose a brand new username that will likely be distinctive to them.

Discord’s weblog submit acknowledged that the purpose of this was to make the app extra like different social platforms. It can most have a resemblance to Twitter after the change, as customers can have distinctive back-end usernames (beginning with an @, in fact) with public show names that are not distinctive. In different phrases, you may’t share your username with one other individual anymore (the four-digit code allowed for that), however show names aren’t topic to that restriction.

There are all kinds of legitimate causes given for this within the weblog submit. Through the years, it is develop into troublesome so shortly share your Discord username with one other individual if you do not have the four-digit code memorized. Even if you happen to do, usernames are case-sensitive, so somebody might discover the unsuitable individual by not factoring that in.

That stated, this modification has definitely ruffled the feathers of these in my social circle, whose foremost criticism is that now it may be too simple to search out folks. A lot of people use Discord as a non-public, intimate chat consumer and should not wish to be findable on there. Sadly, they’re going to have to consider new methods to make that occur going ahead.