Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with microtransaction stores

Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro... by thaumasiotes on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:09PM (#36434355)

> IRL has the same issues non-unique usernames do. It's almost irrelevant in a small community because of the number of members. It becomes a problem in large communities because you can't find someone based on their name.

The issues are.. trivial at most. If you can't find someone based on their name in a large community, that can't cause any problems, because... how did you learn their name? If you know who they are, you can find them. The situation where you're given a piece of paper and told "find a specific person by this name, but not anyone else by the same name, within X time period or you lose this game" doesn't actually arise "IRL".

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Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro... by dcow on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:32PM (#36434690)

I'm confused. What game are we playing? I just need to add my friend Ryan so we can play a game together and there are 10,000 other `ryan`s when I type "ryan" into the username search field.

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Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro... by jimmydorry on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:48PM (#36435036)

There is no username search field in that context. The "username search field" requires the person's username + their unique friend code (otherwise known as a discriminator). If you know to look for a "ryan" you would know their friend code. You either share a server with them, or met them outside the Discord exosystem.

It's that last point there, that Discord seems to want to tackle... We will have to wait to see how, but I hope they don't ruin the server paradigm and aim to become a subreddit type ecosystem.

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