discord has recently announced that they're changing the current name#discriminator system to a handle with display name system. this has pissed a lot of people off
and with good reason, the entire platform has been instructed to change their usernames in the coming weeks to a unique one, after being used to not worrying about username uniqueness since 2015. it introduces that small worry of losing your current username to some squatter
however, there have been other reasons i've seen against the change that i want to respond to. i've taken the time to compile the more common ones — when people felt like actually explaining why they don't like a thing — and i'll respond to them below the fold
The non-latin character thing is interesting, because I mostly see people use it to do the "gothic lettering," you know, 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘. Which is fucking impossible to read and also sucks for people who use screen readers. Which, imo, we really should be banning people using those unicode blocks because no one ever uses them for "valid" reasons, just for the ✨aestheic✨.
