I agree with seneca. HN os one of the last places on the internet to have serious civil discussions. The absence of low effort meme jokes is one of the ways it soft discourages people from opening the gates to memeery.

I'd rather rather compromise on a couple of laughs than see HN become a generic reddit like forum / social network.

Just may 2 cents

Dunno what you're getting at here, GP was making a real point in a tongue-in-cheek way, it's not a "low effort meme joke".

If they're making a point, I don't understand it. They seem to be ridiculing someone for trying to protect their identity. Any famous person will be acutely aware of how problematic it can be to "just join a server as your real identity."

I've had similar problems. I fully agree with the other commenter: if you have a point, just say it minus the cheek.

It was a point agreeing with the person they were replying too. The social rules of technical communities and informal gaming communities are very different, and the commenter highlighted that. I wouldn't want the same name in a technical and gaming community for basically that reason.

> They seem to be ridiculing someone for trying to protect their identity.

As mentioned in another comment: Quite the opposite.

Discord should easily allow to have completely separate identities with no connection to each other at all.

If that's not possible and there's the risk of mixing up my private life and whatnot with my work life, Discord should not be the place/service to use.

You did miss the point then, they were not ridiculing the person they were pointing out how such a thing happens on discord.

HN has not been a serious place for civil discussions in a long time. Users are now actively hostile towards opinions that don't score well on reddit. A larger percentage of posts contribute little to the discussion. Many of the early members who helped shape the community have left. The "interesting" posts that are supposed to make up the front page have steadily gone down in quality.

Sounds like a generic "it was better in the older times" comment, which is highly subjective to your perception.

I don't see how this contributtes to the civil discussion we are trying to have here on an interesting post.

3 posts up and you're making a pussy destroyer joke. I invite you to go back and look at posts from 2013. Tally the redditor-style lame jokes and unsolicited opinion posts against the paragraphs of industry experience.

I have expressed a good few heterodox opinions on HN that are accepted without vitriol. So, I am not sure I agree.

HN expects you to be civil, and abide by the "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence " paradigm. I find them to be reasonable requirements.

If you'd like to express more heterodox views then there are a few rationalist-adjacent splinter groups around the internet with excellent discourse over a wide range of opinions. Each splinter group has different overton windows, but they're all of a really high quality.

Not a complete solution, but for those who might not know, Discord allows you to choose a name per-server.

The user id though will burn you though. People who use something like BetterDiscord will be able to easily spot it (as well as your join date).

I'd recommend just using the browser to make an alt.

Some servers I'm in has notifications when you join, and then if you ever leave it also has a passive aggressive notification like "OK BYE I guess!!"

Mods in smaller communities frequently greet everyone. If you pop in to check something then leave, you might as well @everyone that they're not good enough for you so you're out.

That said, Threads seem like they could have some functionality in some technical discords.

Elsewhere in this thread I’ve claimed people should use the web app with a password manager. Sometimes you’ll get a “new login detected” thing and be asked to authenticate your current ip address via email. That can be a headache when switching accounts but you can easily just use an email client which supports multiple email addresses without having to manually log in and out again.

Too much friction for some tasks. Forums and their features/flaws are better than Discord for some things.

Only if the guild allows nicknames to be set manually. Not all do. And your actual username when @ mentioned still is the same.

Please don't ridicule people that are trying to protect their identity.

I don't, quite the opposite.

I think that's a very valid concern and I think it's a actually problem when Discord does not allow you to have different identities or switch easily between them without any connection at all.

Sorry for misinterpreting your message then.

No problem at all!

I think that's ~xXN0oBMa573r69Xx~ tho.

> xXx~Pu55yDe5troy3r69~xXx, is this you? I saw you the other day on the StackOverflow Discord where you were helping me with my HTML-RegEx! Thanks again!

Please don't make posts like this here.

Yeah, sorry, that RegEx-topic is really not for those with a weak heart. I'll use an XML parser instead.

but have have you tried using rust??

a good portion of discord is using a combination of elixir and rust actually

Good point

Pls downvote me more for no good reason