Discord’s username change is causing discord

Re:Discord’s username change is causing discord by packetlost on Saturday May 06, 2023 @03:27PM (#35844576)

Fine. Have a first-come-first serve lottery system. Person with the lowest discriminator wins that name. You have to open that up to everyone (not just those who pay), but that should be relatively easy to do.

IMO, I think it's also ok to give preference to people who 1) were there first 2) pay for the service

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Re:Discord’s username change is causing discord by Ekaros on Saturday May 06, 2023 @03:31PM (#35844630)

Discriminators are random for non nitro-users. And if you stop paying you don't even get to keep one...

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Re:Discord’s username change is causing discord by pavel_lishin on Saturday May 06, 2023 @04:14PM (#35844996)

> Fine. Have a first-come-first serve lottery system

Isn't this exactly what Discord is doing?

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Re:Discord’s username change is causing discord by ewanm89 on Monday May 08, 2023 @04:30PM (#35866671)

Okay, discriminators are randomly assigned unless one pays for nitro, that said they have account creation date on record, so they can do it in order no problem.

The issues are the order they have chosen is not that simple. They are giving verified bots first choice (some of these are questionable), then owners of partnered servers, then discord for business, then it is going by account age.

They have added a clarification to their blog post: "Current Nitro subscribers paying for the ability to customize their discriminator that registered for Nitro on or before March 1, 2023 will also be given early access." Yeah, when early access is in the list I do not know.

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