Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Discord’s major username changes to adopt standardized handles aren’t sitting well with its longtime users.

On May 3, 2023, Discord announced that it would be changing its username system. Until now, Discord has displayed user names as 'arbitrary character string' + 'hashtag' + '4-digit number', but from ...

Discord said its case-sensitive usernames and four-digit discriminators meant that half its users failed to connect with the person they meant to. Reading time 2 minutes Discord announced its users ...

Discord’s plan to drop four-digit-appended usernames for Twitter-style “@” handles is causing considerable upset. The instant messaging app announced it would switch its current format which sees ...

Alex is a lifelong gamer and avid follower of games media. A multimedia journalism graduate of Cal Poly Pomona, he served as a copy editor of CPP's student newspaper, The Poly Post, and also started a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The social app Discord, a favorite of gamers, inadvertently stirred internal strife after announcing last week that it will force its millions of members to pick new usernames.

Users of popular messaging platform Discord will need to change their usernames over the next few weeks, as the site overhauls the system for the first time in its eight-year history. The service, ...

Discord has announced that it will soon be removing four-digit discriminators from usernames. Instead, username conventions will be similar to Twitter. All Discord users will be required to update ...

The good old days of Discord users being branded by numbers are on the way out. Now, get ready for Discord to feel a lot more like the average social networking app with its new naming system, wherein ...

FILE - A display Discord stands at the company's booth at the Game Developers Conference 2023 in San Francisco, March 22, 2023. The social app Discord, a favorite of gamers, inadvertently fostered ...