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Re:How Discord Won by deadbunny on Monday October 19, 2020 @11:39PM (#24833730)
> I can't fathom why it's implemented this way, but it is.

I would hazard a guess that it's because the vast majority of people want a single login for a single app.

I know I certainly prefer the discord one account many servers approach over the slack one server one logon.

Obviously the 1:1 relationship makes sense for slack as it's targeted at businesses, a lot of whom use a centralised user directory of some kind (SSO/LDAP etc...) but having to create a new user/pass to join every discord server would get old very fast.

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Re:How Discord Won by thaumasiotes on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:03PM (#24841803)
What is the connection between having a single login and disclosing a username to someone you've gone out of your way to hide it from?

There isn't one.

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Re:How Discord Won by Alphaeus on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:21PM (#24843706)
It's a nickname, not a feature to hide your account name.
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