I hadn’t kept up with the changes to Discord’s naming system, but I had notived they reverted from the USERNAME#0000 to just USERNAME which seems better, was it a good change?
I remember BattleNET having the same type of usernames.
The issue with this change was, that someone who was previously named Mike for instance with a discriminator, has to now choose something else for instance: “Mike372”. Discord claims this is a better and a less confusing system, when it really just boils down to the same thing. Making matter worse they claimed all Mike usernames are taken, so #0001 to #9999 which also later turned out to be false, it was just their site choosing a random discriminator, which when it was already taken told you: “This username is already taken.”, when in reality there were still available discriminators.
I hadn’t kept up with the changes to Discord’s naming system, but I had notived they reverted from the USERNAME#0000 to just USERNAME which seems better, was it a good change?
I remember BattleNET having the same type of usernames.
The issue with this change was, that someone who was previously named Mike for instance with a discriminator, has to now choose something else for instance: “Mike372”. Discord claims this is a better and a less confusing system, when it really just boils down to the same thing. Making matter worse they claimed all Mike usernames are taken, so #0001 to #9999 which also later turned out to be false, it was just their site choosing a random discriminator, which when it was already taken told you: “This username is already taken.”, when in reality there were still available discriminators.
I like the Steam system, having a unique login and a custom name that doesn’t have to be unique.