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how can i be as irritating as possible to the right people about what an incredibly bad and disappointing idea the discord username thing is
discord is about group spaces i could give a fuck about discoverability
but if you are having trouble sharing your discord handle then i mean you could always change your discord handle to something easier to share
and then if your chosen handle is already taken, no problem! there can be duplicates thanks to the discriminator
my username is 4 letters. there's no way in hell i'm getting that claimed. this sucks
3 letters! and i used to have a super old account which would get close‐to first dibs now, but Discord deleted it. :c
it especially seems odd because discord... already has ways to add people as friends without worrying about their exact username? the local search function on mobile is how i regularly add people i meet in person, and online the sorts of people that i'm adding as friends can just type their username and let me copy-paste it, if i'm not just already in a discord server with them because most of my friends on discord are people i've met through groups?
even beyond all the issues in implementing a username system, it really feels like the problems that it purports to solve aren't ones that really exist
