Discord is rising up, so everybody wants to choose a brand new username

Discord is taking away the four-digit tag that it places after its usernames because it seems to be to make it “simpler to attach” with different customers. As noted in a post on Discord’s blog, this alteration will power most customers to vary their usernames, as Discord will not have the four-number tag that distinguishes one individual with the identical username from one other.

As an alternative of getting a four-number discriminator appended to your username, you’ll now have a unique alphanumeric username with the “@” image in entrance of it. You’ll additionally get to decide on a non-unique show identify that may embrace particular characters, areas, emoji, and non-Latin characters, making the platform much more like different mainstream social networks, comparable to Twitter and Instagram. It additionally makes it much less just like the gaming platform it began life as, with suffixes just like those used on companies like Steam, Battle.web, and Xbox.

Sadly, this course of means everybody on Discord might want to choose a brand new username.

Based on Discord, you possibly can replace your username steadily “within the coming weeks,” and the platform will notify you while you’re ready to take action. The corporate says it would prioritize longtime Discord customers, which suggests the longer you’ve been on Discord, the earlier you’ll be capable to select a brand new identify.

Moreover, Discord notes that your earlier username and discriminator will nonetheless work as an alias after it begins eliminating the numerical tag. This implies your folks can nonetheless discover you underneath your previous username.

Whereas Discord says it initially launched with the aim of letting customers select any username they wished, the four-number tags finally “grew to become technical debt” that it didn’t “tackle adequately,” noting that usernames are sometimes “too sophisticated or obscure” to memorize and share with buddies.

“We acknowledge that this can be a large change,” Discord co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy writes within the weblog publish. “There could also be hiccups with this course of, and it might be powerful to half methods with that ‘#0001’ that’s meant quite a bit to you over time. We’ll be doing all the pieces we will to handle issues as easily as doable.”