In the coming weeks, Vishnevskiy wrote, Discord will start notifying users via an in-app message when they're cleared to select a new username. Two changes are taking place simultaneously. Almost half of all friend requests on Discord fail to reach the correct person, the executive wrote. But according to Vishnevskiy's post, more than 40% of Discord users either don't remember their four-digit codes - variously known as “tags” or “discriminators” in Discord-speak - or know what they are in the first place. If your username was “SgtRock,” you might have suddenly found yourself with the handle “SgtRock#1842.” To help people to find their friends across servers, Discord made those four-digit codes a visible part of usernames. But as Discord grew, the San Francisco-based company decided to expand its messaging system - initially limited to conversations within shared groups it calls “servers" - to the entire platform. The approach differed from social platforms such as Twitter, which has always required users to select unique names.ĭiscord assigned each username an invisible four-digit identifier to distinguish them from duplicates. That was part of the company's goal of letting users represent themselves freely, according to a detailed May 3 blog post by Discord co-founder and chief technology officer Stanislav Vishnevskiy. A Reddit thread on the change drew more than 4,000 comments, the vast majority of them angry or at least unhappy.ĭiscord, which says it has 150 million monthly active users, has no plans to reconsider the new policy, according to a spokesman.ĭiscord users have long been free to choose any name they wanted, even ones already in use. But it’s a big deal for people who rely on the mid-sized social network to recruit fellow gamers, swap virtual weapons and organize strategy in multiplayer games. The issue may sound trivial compared to real-life concerns such as mass shootings and killer storms. Now the question is whether the change will escalate into all-out warfare that could include players threatening one another in order to seize control of popular names. ![]() SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The social app Discord, a favorite of gamers, inadvertently stirred internal strife after announcing last week that it will force its millions of members to pick new usernames. The social app Discord, a favorite of gamers, inadvertently fostered internal strife after announcing on Wednesday, May 3, that its millions of members will have to pick new usernames. Why can't you mute just the two channels so you're still notified when people are getting together to play Elite Dangerous, or just posting about the game? And why can't the others mute just the Elite Dangerous channel so you don't bug them? Administrator side, why can't you create, and then auto mute for new arrivals, things like channels for trash talk or channels for messing with bots? You could make private channels and have people request for the roles to see them, but that's a roundabout solution that doesn't really solve all the problems, and requires additional time for administrators that, especially in a small group, may not always be available.Facebook Twitter Email FILE - A display Discord stands at the company's booth at the Game Developers Conference 2023 in San Francisco, March 22, 2023. You only have Elite Dangerous, so you don't care about the other two channels. Lets say you have a single server with people that play different games, maybe Path of Exile, World of Warcraft, and Elite Dangerous. That's all well and good, but that does an entire server, not the individual channels within a server.
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