{"id":39353,"date":"2023-05-11T14:28:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T18:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39353"},"modified":"2023-05-11T14:28:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T18:28:44","slug":"discords-username-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/11\/discords-username-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Discord&rsquo;s Username Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/5\/6\/23711332\/discord-username-changes-community-backlash-handles\">Umar Shakir<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=35843325\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/5\/6\/23711332\/discord-username-changes-community-backlash-handles\"><p>Starting in the next couple of weeks, millions of Discord users will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/5\/3\/23710259\/discord-new-username-discriminators-number-tag\">forced to say goodbye<\/a> to their old four-digit-appended names. Discord is requiring everyone to take up a new common platform-wide handle. For Discord, it&rsquo;s a move toward mainstream social network conventions. For some users, though, it&rsquo;s a change to the basics of what Discord <em>is <\/em>&mdash; a shift that&rsquo;s as much about culture as technology.<\/p><p>Discord has historically handled usernames with a numeric suffix system. Instead of requiring a completely unique handle, it allowed duplicate names by adding a four-digit code known as a &ldquo;discriminator&rdquo; &mdash; think TheVerge#1234. But earlier this week, it announced it was changing course and moving toward unique identifiers that resemble Twitter-style &ldquo;@&rdquo; handles.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/discordapp\/comments\/136urpb\/comment\/jiqdwyq\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3\">Over on Reddit<\/a>, Vishnevskiy argued that the new handles wouldn&rsquo;t even show up in the interface that often since Discord will allow users to set a separate display name that&rsquo;s not unique.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>During the change, Discord users will have to navigate a process that&rsquo;s fraught with uncertainty and cutthroat competition.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umar Shakir (via Hacker News): Starting in the next couple of weeks, millions of Discord users will be forced to say goodbye to their old four-digit-appended names. Discord is requiring everyone to take up a new common platform-wide handle. For Discord, it&rsquo;s a move toward mainstream social network conventions. For some users, though, it&rsquo;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-05-11T18:28:47Z","apple_news_api_id":"2dfcf8f4-2df4-46d8-8b07-bc9c90e21dd4","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-05-11T18:28:47Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ALfz49C30RtiLB7yckOId1A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1016,2052,96],"class_list":["post-39353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-datacide","tag-discord","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39354,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39353\/revisions\/39354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}