Bottom line: Nearly half of all Discord friend requests fail because the service's case-sensitive usernames with four-digit attachments are too difficult for many users to remember. This is the main ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discord is making a rather big change for usernames on the platform. With gaming expanding in major ways within the last few years and allowing players to play with each on various platforms, Discord ...

Discord is making changes to its usernames that will finally eliminate the four-digit "discriminators" that make them so unwieldy. It's also adding a new Display Names option, so the way you appear to ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — 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. Now the ...

Discord has been around for just under ten years, and many people use it to talk with friends or for work, like us at Techaeris. You can establish various voice or chat rooms and simultaneously use ...

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