Can someone, like. Explain the Discord name change thing to me. Because as far as I can tell it doesn't even make sense on the standard Enshittification Timeline? Like, it:
- doesn't seem to provide any new functionality that users were requesting. They're just going from one system of name uniqueness to another
- making this change would have required non-trivial amounts of expensive dev time
- it's already pissing off a large amount of their userbase who are justifiably worried they might lose their preferred names (or, in the case of users who don't use Latin characters in their names, are CERTAIN they're going to lose their preferred names)
- it doesn't contribute to user growth in any way I can identify
- it doesn't contribute to monetization in any way I can identify
Like. I'm less pissed-off than I am BEMUSED at this point. Who wanted this? Why?
