Discord is finally dropping those awkward numbers from its usernames. But there's a downside.
is making changes to its usernames that will finally eliminate the four-digit"discriminators" that make them so unwieldy. It's also adding a new Display Names option, so the way you appear to other Discord users can stay the same—or be changed to whatever you want.
Discord has come to recognize that this system isn't ideal. Co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy explained in athat Discord adopted the current system in order to ensure that nobody ended up locked out of a name they wanted to use, and that the discriminator numbers were made publicly visible so users could be sure they were chatting with the proper person when they're connected across different servers.
And the numbers are stark: More than 40% of Discord users either don't know their discriminator number or don't even know what a discriminator is, and worse, nearly half of all friend requests on the platform fail to connect with the proper user. That's obviously not great for a social media platform, but a fix wasn't easy to come by.
Adding a separate display name option to that change was also rejected as unworkable, because"we would have an even more complex system with both a Display Name and a username that still included the four-digit discriminator.
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