and imo you should too. i dont think nitro genuinely offers anything that is critical to my day-to-day and people cancelling their subs over the crypto shit genuinely hurt their income bad enough that, at least for me, this is as equally awful of a thing to tell them "actually, fuck off"
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The thing I never see anyone mention is that the new system is no better than the old one because if you don't get your preferred name first, most people are tacking a bunch of numbers on the end anyway lol
there is like one other person on the internet that i am constantly wrestling with for control over "xkeeper" and i am not looking forward to the underscore of shame yet again
and the bit about friends is real, uh, there is more than one deceased person on my friends list and i'm not looking forward to their names getting mangled by this.
There was something beautiful about how the old system fixed username scarcity and the whole name_numbers thing by effectively forcing everybody to be name_numbers so it's fair. Shame things had to end this way.
yeah and like it's self-punishing. "people are having trouble adding me on discord" well yeah, maybe you shouldn't name your account with shit that is literally impossible to type on a phone, bozo
e: like the most i could see is making them case-and-space-insensitive really. i know that's a can of worms in itself but if you're gona fuck with it at least fix one of the big, obvious problems. and with the discriminator you can even fix conflicts with the canonical name by considering them the same.
e.g. "ab c d e" and "AbCdE" are equivalent for finding people and this is enforced by preventing them from sharing a discriminator. fartt
the article they put out on the change is absolutely deranged bc like, they point out "we noticed that going with lowercase-only alphanumeric usernames would be a huge inconvenience to a huge chunk of our userbase" and "having separate account names and display names would make the system even more complex" and then just acted like they didnt say that and decided to go with both of them what the fuck
Why is getting rid of non-Latin characters the one change you can agree with?
most latin characters (and special characters) are typeable on normal input devices; funny unicode stuff can be literally impossible.
like i mean if they're gonna break everything, at least that one seems reasonable
i feel like there's gotta be hundreds of people who use discord entirely in their native language that cannot even be really Approximated Succinctly in latin characters. i feel like that's just shitty to do to them.
yeah. like i said, it's mostly just "if we're going to ruin everything else, we might as well go whole ham". same username requirements as old stuff like aim, irc, even twitter and cohost handles
my crank opinion is that visibly changing anything in an already released product/website is inherently negative and that a change needs to both be really good and obviously good for it to be net positive. and this sure doesn't seem like either lol
wait why is fucking over people who speak other languages the one change you can agree with
i explained this literally elsewhere in these comments but "if you're going to fuck everything up, you might as well go the whole way". AIM and such relied entirely on a-z0-9 usernames, a handful of other things still do and did as well.
clearly the comment was not communicating this properly.
in reply to @xkeeper's post:
you were the inspiration behind this post so thank you very much for complaining!
in reply to @erica's post:
I'm assuming that "Current Nitro subscribers paying for the ability to customize their discriminator that were registered on or before March 1, 2023 will also be given early access. This includes users that were on a Nitro or Nitro Classic plan on March 1, 2023, and remained active on either of those plans throughout the months leading to the new username rollout" but was specifically trying to convince people not to do that but we'll see.
I had already cancelled mine over their AI integration shit and I kinda miss it but fuck if I'm gonna give them money if this is what they do with it.