eevee

@lexyeevee

troublesome fox girl

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hello i like to make video games and stuff and also have a good time on the computer. look @ my pinned for some of the video games and things. sometimes i am horny on @squishfox

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eevee @lexyeevee5/4/2023, 12:27 AM

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eevee @lexyeevee5/4/2023, 12:12 AM

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

eevee @lexyeevee5/4/2023, 12:27 AM

discriminators are clever, they make it hard to guess someone's handle even if you know what they usually go by, and they make discord handles immediately identifiable at a glance. i don't know why you would give up identity protection and brand recognition™ just so Mike#6137 is now mike6137

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X @xkeeper5/4/2023, 12:22 AM

hey

have you linekd your work / school / fortnite account yet

hey

Plum @plumpan5/4/2023, 1:04 AM

LINK YOUR PSN ACCOUNT SO YOU CAN BECOME THE One True Gamer

ruby @srxl5/4/2023, 12:49 AM

my username is 4 letters. there's no way in hell i'm getting that claimed. this sucks

eevee @lexyeevee5/4/2023, 12:50 AM

i don't want to be lexyeevee again

GFD @GFD5/4/2023, 1:05 AM

3 letters! and i used to have a super old account which would get close‐to first dibs now, but Discord deleted it. :c

Céleste ΘΔ&@pinkie5/4/2023, 1:02 AM

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

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Stryx-9 @hootOS5/4/2023, 12:39 AM

i never thought about it like that. i've not been mass-attacked by people who would try an guess my handle to harass me directly, so my main feelings toward the shift is positive because it means i don't have to worry about people getting my discord handle wrong if i tell it to them verbally or finding the wrong account or something like what sometimes happened on twitter (until i nuked my accounts lol).

but, to be honest, it's only been an issue like... once. so, i dunno. there's a lot of cons for such a seemingly meaningless switch like this, so i imagine there had to be some reason the switch was made? like maybe it made the backend messy as shit and unoptimized or something? but i dont know, i could be putting too much trust into a tech company to make wise choices that aren't just impulsive and based off of one person's personal experience rather than their average users.

eevee @lexyeevee5/4/2023, 12:42 AM

consider:

when you have a zillion users, switching to regular usernames means that almost no one's username is actually just the name they normally go by

so almost everyone is going to have some junk attached

currently, that junk is standardized, and always present: it is a four-digit number

after this change, that junk is both optional and completely arbitrary. are you hoot? are you hootos? are you hoot_os or hoot.os or was it hootos_? are you something else entirely because all of those were taken?

ash @hierarchon5/5/2023, 4:41 AM

under the current system, "hootos", "hootOS", "hoot os", and "hoot OS" are also all valid identifiers that refer to separate usernames. taking a look at my friends list, I see about half of them have at least one plausible 'variation' (insert/remove space, capitalization), and I have a couple people on my friends list where I could probably give literally a hundred plausible different variations on their username that would be pronounced identically. the problem's already present.

eevee @lexyeevee5/5/2023, 8:47 AM

requiring a single global identifier for everyone will surely only make it worse though

and discord could collapse all those together if it wanted to. surely that would be a less disruptive change

ash @hierarchon5/5/2023, 11:23 PM

imo both approaches have advantages and disadvantages. the fact that they're changing suggests they have reasons (user studies, internal metrics, whatever) to believe that the global unique username approach is worth the pain of change. here's one argument for it: discord is the only online communication platform where if i met someone in person, i would have to pull out my phone to tell them how to add me, because i don't have my discriminator memorized.

like, my heuristic here is that if it worked the other way and then they changed it to work the way it does now, i think people would probably be about equally mad, which suggests that it's more change aversion.

Annie D @ann-arcana5/4/2023, 12:40 AM

I already have enough problems with creeps and spammers sliding into my DMs out of nowhere from other servers, the last thing I want is MORE discoverability, so even randos from other social media can start harassing me too.

Kauko @kauko5/4/2023, 3:00 AM

People already can't message you just with your name (they have to add you as a friend first), and you can already turn off getting messages from people just because they're on the same server as you, I don't think anything changes with this

Nire Bryce @NireBryce5/4/2023, 12:45 AM

he reads his email as of two years ago fwiw. do with this what you will

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