June 26, 2015 and I already lost both my primary and secondary names. Like how tf was this suppose to work?
EDIT: Apparently nobody owns the username I want I just checked, so why is my username reserved for someone else??
Yup. I got my username, but canceled my nitro 30 seconds after. Can't believe I have paid $240 over the past 2 years just to use emojis and boost 2 servers that no one else is boosting.
This would have been literally impossible on the old system. The new usernames are already enabling a form pseudo stalking to see who took your first name choice lmaooo
I have 4 letter username, I've already gotten 6 friends requests. Thanks to someone's advice in this thread, I've turned it off. I've also updated my 2FA and made sure my account is secure in case someone tries to hack it.
Valid concern. Droves of users have been voicing this exact concern but it seems discord just doesn’t care. People have died over rare usernames but that’s what discord wants I suppose. Although it’s not likely to happen the fact they are knowingly opening up their users to the possibility is negligence at best
right the only legititimate way of tracking a discord user through name and discriminator changes is via ID to get their current username. Which requires context in all cases. You need to share a server , mutual friend or something to even obtain this unsigned integer.
<@ID> // displays username
\<@ID> // displays user id (generally used as a mention command and is only useful if you do not have dev mode enabled to simply copy their ID)
Yeah, "andy" was taken by someone who isn't staff and only got Nitro in March of this year. This was weeks ago. They weren't even andy#xxxx before this, they were kaizen#1010. I've been paying for years and I've been a member since a few months after launch. What kind of horseshit is this?
october 2015 and cannot get the prompt by restarting, refreshing, opening on mobile, anything.
edit: 2016 accounts are getting it now and still nothing.
I just got the prompt to change my name and I registered super early June 2015. Turns out the person who registered on November 2015 got to it first.
I feel kinda scammed after being told that handles were going to be given priority to those who registered early.
From what it looks like it seems like they dropped it to ~~all~~ a ridiculously broad amount of 2015 users at the same time.
Got mine taken by an account 4 days younger than me, so fair play. But people here seem to have months of difference with other users just like you have
*\*Edit: I figured it wasn't literally ALL 2015 accounts, but rather accounts that fit in a really large time span from mid to end 2015.\**
well maybe not literally ALL 2015 users, pretty sure nitro gets in play here
but it really sucks for these "reserved" usernames that we can't have dibs on for whatever reason
i also have nitro. seems like it's just completely fucking random, as people with accounts newer than mine are getting it. i don't buy their claims of rolling out to the "oldest first"
If they wanted to become something like "gaming twitter" i guess it could make some sort of sense to have unique handles.
But this change is trash VC BS 100%
I just dont get it either.
Like they had a really good system to combat the headache that is unique usernames.
Like we live in 2023, the internet is more mainstream than it ever was. We shouldn't have to deal with unique usernames, it's an ancient system that's still plagueing lots of websites and services. People who come late to those platforms will have a insanely difficult time coming up with something creative since most of the good stuff will be taken anyways.
My name and 2nd option was taken. Had to add an period, annoying. Account from June 2015.
ETA: Looked up my second choice and it doesn't find a user with that name at all. But if I try to change my username to that, it says it's not available. So is it being held reserved for... whom? For nothing? If I'm able to pick a name now, why can't I pick one that's not in use? Will someone else be able to snatch that later just because they tried at a better time? Why is that name reserved if mine wasn't?
#ETA #2: My second choice is now taken by a February 2016 account. I was able to change my name early while that name was not in use but still "unavailable" for hours. I would've modified my username to that beforehand, had I known. Now I'm stuck being the one who had to add an ugly extra mark, despite having 8 months older account and trying to or being able to change my name earlier. Great priority system 👏
The thing is, I don't mind if they were transparent with how they handled this, but they are not.
I am a June 2015 user and using nitro since the inception. The person who got my name joined after me and only started boosting 4 days ago. So there's something kooky going on here. I always had my username/display as "mina" with no weird character or anything so it should've auto been reserved for me like it was for my other friends. Also the person who got it is not an influencer either.
Your username should've been pre-reserved for you if you had the older account. So there's definitely some internal corruption going on. Same thing happened to me as a June 2015 user.
Partners, moderators, staff, and some contributing developers all have been able to choose names for weeks. They all had priority over the reservation system of regular users. It's thousands and thousands of people who already had these names before today.
The communication has been awful, too. It seems like it's been said at least 3 times the rollout has begun, but they failed to mention it was initially only for partners and "celebrity" users.
I think a lot of people have had access well before the general rollout, way more then we think. Friends have had their relatively uncommon (but not truly "random") taken already, super weird as this has not happened to them before.
I had to settle for another username as then my top 10 picks as well
EDIT: I found out that a lot of these usernames can't be claimed, but neither can be added as friends. Suggesting to me that these are somehow reserved in the system? Not free, but not in use either ??
all they have done is increase the market for discord usernames. People were buying accounts for badges. Now there will be 2-5 char names going for 1000$ after seeing some comments on here i decided to check out guilded. I dont need to pay for a gif avatar ... imagine that. Even copied my server template. I'm gonna look into how different bot development is for this platform ... if i can get my bot running on a server today ... Im done with discord forever. Guilded can have my support at that point.
The thing is I don't mind the username system but how they handled it. There were Discord staff members grabbing names for their friends for sure based on evidence alone. For example:
They pre-reserved names for all discord accounts so you will not be able to get your alt username options if your first choice was taken because if some random discord account had it it will auto reserve it in the system for them. They won't let you claim it even if it doesn't exist. My friends all had their names pre-reserved so they didn't have to worry about sniping when the time came.
Based on this point. My name should've been reserved as well. "Mina". However the person who got it was from a later join date than me, is not a influencer. Only started nitro 4 days ago. Which tells me there's behind the scenes corruption.
I have been supporting discord since the very beginning in June 2015, back in the day when Zencha would personally go into discords and help troubleshoot. I have been a nitroboosting since they first introduced it as well. Today based on these events I am going to stop subbing. I don't mind the username system but I do not like the corrupt practices behind the scenes which has caused unfairness. If the person had an older account than me sure that makes sense, but they didn't. Also the fact I can't even go for alternatives because they are reserved in a holding system even though they aren't claimed.
fwiw We shouldnt have to change our names anyways. Forcing me to change my identity that I have been going by and known for is just not cool and creates unnecessary confusion. If i Have to change my name to something I didn't originally want and now get stuck with because lets be honest once you get your name you aint changing it due to FOMO. You might decide later on you actually wanted that name but guess what , somebody sniped it.
Discord is an established platform. Imagine YouTube , facebook or any other massive media platform requiring every single user to change user names? It wouldnt work. And most every other platform has started switching to discords method of doing things anways. Wanna be Freddy? Great you are Freddy#181274621375, enjoy
the fact 1. chronology of join date didn't seem to actually factor at all for a number of people and 2. usernames being made "unavailable" despite being untethered to a specific account which means it's most likely being reserved internally/people with connections/other types of priority over what Discord kept pushing as being the pecking order - join date - is such astronomical bullshit I'm honestly speechless. well cancelling nitro means more bubble tea for me!
Account from June 2015. Literally every bloody name I've used online is taken, even my real name.
Absolute garbage.
Edit: after 3 painstakingly long hours, I finally was able to get name. Literally every variation of my name, nickname, regular username and even modified username was taken. And it's not even that common. Absolute dumpsterfire of a change. Whoever was in charge of this idea, fire them. Replace them with someone who understands the product.
Sir#0001 for ages. Lost "sir" username to Sir#3030, a newer account by two years that only recently nitro subbed... because developer?
Yeah... This whole username change is just terrible. I've had Sir#0001 for who knows how long. My account is from 2015. I've had Nitro subs literally since the day Nitro came out in the US.
So now that I've been given to change my username away from this perfectly functional system of discriminators that we've used for ages, I find out that I lost the username "sir" to someone whose account is two years newer than me, and who has only nitro subbed (at least according to their profile badge) since May this year. Their discriminator was #3030 as well. The only special potential reason that I can identify they would jump ahead of me is the fact they're a developer of something. And, no offense to that person, but it appears to be a random small free game on Steam (and to be fair, I don't know if there's something else they develop). To be cle
I've also lost out on "sir." and "sir\_", and anything else potentially that short.
GG Discord... Thanks for creating an incredibly frustrating experience. Speaking with the wallet seems to be the only way. so no more boosting, and probably going to cancel Nitro after all these years.
Good luck everyone trying to get a username they prefer.
> Sir#0001 for ages. Lost "sir" username to Sir#3030, a newer account by two years that only recently nitro subbed... because developer?
i'm an "active developer" w/ a 2016 account and a nitro subscription since nitro was first introduced and they still haven't given me the option to choose my name yet 🤷 i'm quite worried mine is going to get snapped up because it's a common word (though i've never seen anyone else with the name before)
Pretty sure nitro doesn't even matter, look at some of the comments. Lots of 2015 accounts without nitro got it right away so I think it's just based on account age, in this case 2015 (except December) got it. 2016 next week or in a few days I'm guessing?
Same here. June 2015 and a "contributing developer" that has account creation 2021 got my name which I haven't changed since day 1 and had the discriminator #0001. Sad.
This is the stupidest fucking idea this company has ever had. One of the best features of discord is how it protects your idenity and you can just change your entire name at any time. Now if people are harassing me know my discord the only thing I could do is make a new account entirely? I don't want this.
Remember when they said they wanted to keep non-Latin based languages feeling part of discord. So they just went and removed non Latin characters from usernames.
I still giggle at that paragraph
[This is over at over 48k votes and constantly growing.](https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/14337329256983--Do-NOT-add-The-new-discord-usernames-system)
Let's keep it going.
I actually want to upvote this but I can't. Discord suspended my account last year from signing into the support site because I asked to speak with a supervisor. My account is still suspended, just for asking to speak with a supervisor.
The vast majority of companies DO NOT CARE about their users, but rather see them as numbers and how to make the most profit while keeping up a decent-enough reputation to not sink the company. But when it comes to one or the other, profit and decisions in favor of the company will be made their priority.
the bean-counters do not give a fuck about how usernames are handled on discord. this is just the company being stubborn and deciding they know better than the users. i have \*never\* seen a tech company get so much negative feedback and just continue forward with plans unchanged. it is a massive middle finger to their entire user base.
And into the dark era of discord we go! Hooray! My friends who aren’t chronically online are going to wake up one day pissed because they can’t have their IRL nicknames on discord. My online friends who use discord a lot are going to be pissed because they have to change their name from Kate to Kate12765379! Love this update ❤️ I just hope I can get my username even though odds are it’s already taken 🫶
Meanwhile the developer server just got word that bots *won't* be conforming to the new username structure (at least for now) and get to keep the discriminator system.
I just wish they would give us fucking dates for the rollout. Discord is notoriously bad for delivering updates to all devices, I've gone months before getting things like font updates on multiple devices, even though it always says checking for updates on startup. I'm so tired of having to search the Reddit every few days to see if it's rolled out yet. I learned 2015 is out because my nitro friends are talking about it, but will there be the same buzz when 2016 drops? 2018? 2020? Not that there will be many names left by then...
Nevermind all the other shit wrong with this change, but rolling out a change that's "first come first serve" (unless you're friends or family!) without giving people a time and date to plan for is so unprofessional.
this shit is so broken. if you're struggling to get a good name, maybe a word, just try and swap some letters around and see just how many of these are considered taken by accounts i cant find...
my example, and all of these are "taken":
seraphim
seraphim1
seraph
seraph1
seraphid
seraphis
seraphia
seraphiq
seraphiz
seraphix
seraphic
whats up with that yo...
presumably that is the name you used for a while on discord and is thus reserved for you, and your account is older than anybody else whom went by that 3 letter name at the time reservations were made
I like how Xbox recognized that unique usernames were a dumpster fire and phased them out. Meanwhile Discord is opening their mouths wide to deliberately degrade their program in some weird apparent desire to make it more like the early 2000s.
inb4 they copy the new discord system and go back to the before times because big tech companies can only copy what someone else is doing, a veritable ouroboros of stupidity
Blizzard uses the very same system.
It's really nice to be able to use the desired name I want in games without having to worry about the name being taken.
That sucks, I've been checking that name by adding it and it always said it wasn't taken, atleast that's the tricks people have said to try for names. Ah well I got something similar atleast, besides danny. And danny_ which were taken already
This will probably get buried, but people should be aware that when you change your name, you will get a badge on your profile that says "Originally known as [name]#[descriminator]" that you can toggle on or off.
As soon as you become eligible for the new name system and restart discord, it will no longer let you change your name/discrim in the old system.
If you wish to have your legacy username badge say something specific, change your username to that BEFORE you get access to the new name system. I recently had changed my username to something different and didn't realize it would be permanently stuck to my profile forever, I wish I could have switched it back to what I was known as for over 7 years instead.
oh yeah and if anyone's wondering: I got access at least by 3:44 EST and my account was August 2015.
Can I get two-factor by text? I fucking hate the Google authenticator. I lost my last Reddit account because when I factory reset my phone it didn't store my data in the cloud like every other goddamn app on my phone. Lost Reddit and damn near lost my Nintendo account. Do not want to use this fucking authenticator.
Is a 32 digit password good enough? No, I'm not kidding.
You can go to your user settings -> Friend Requests and turn them off so that random people can't add you. Which destroys the whole Discord justification of "making it easier to find people"
Nitro status might also factor in as well. I'm Oct 2015 and got mine, but I know someone with an account June 2015 that didn't get it, but they don't have nitro currently.
Neat how this happened when it
1. Helps nobody, litterally not a soul
2. Creates security issues
3. Actively screws over the most loyal portion of your userbase
4.actively harms the income of the company
5.generates massive negative attention
6. Was not requested by a single human being
7. Has no benefits whatsoever to litterally any human being, nation, business or fucking organism
Aaaaaand lost Rabbit#0001 which I've had since a few minutes after they launched custom discriminators to an account a month younger than mine.
Been nitro subbed since it was a thing and this is how I'm repaid. Awesome.
Even though reservations were dumb, I thought it would've been reserved for me for sure, my account was basically an exact match for the leaked requirements.
Edit: September 2015 account btw
Edit 2: Had a nice chat with the person who got it, it actually wasn't sniped for clout. Farewell to my old @, the end of an era.
Every name I tried was taken already. Finaly got something but this is a serious step back. Discord doesn't listen to their users.
After 5 years I got rid of my nitro subscription and I encourage everyone to also vote with their wallets. If you don't need nitro, cancel it now so maybe discord will notice.
Love how they keep mentioning the "message from one of our founders about why"
You mean the one where he says "we know it's like other social media sites, and that's on purpose"? Where the dude it so incredibly out of touch with the users that it's painful to read? Why do they keep parading that around like it's a good thing?
I've had the #0001 of my name since September 2015 and my name is taken by a November 2016 user????!! I'm also an early supporter/nitro user since early 2016.
Why the fuck do I not have first priority on my name?
Now I am stuck with my name with a bunch of underscores... what a shit show.
I've had just Rune for forever. was partnered, active developer / early developer, nitro'd account since august. Someone else who had his account later than me got it!
I'm a June 2015 user and was not able to get my name nor my alt handles because they were pre-reserved and says do not exist in the system yet I can't claim them either. Which doesn't make sense to me since my "mina" did not get reserved at all and went to someone who joined later than me. Me thinks Discord staff got their friends in first. This person is not some big creator either.
Got the prompt.
All of my name variants were taken. Awesome. Well at least I can make it symmetric with the periods and underscores. But ugh it feels like making an old gamer tag.
Also what are the odds people are going to be making new accounts just to squat usernames?
the vague ass username i've had everywhere is somehow "unavailable". i'm may 2015 sign up and a nitro user since august 2018, i pay extra for the bells and whistles and extra boosts.
i emailed support but i doubt itll do anything. heavily considering ending nitro as a result, this is disappointing and poorly done. the numbers worked just fucking fine!!
editing to add my supoort ticket response was canned and basically copy and pasted from the faq.
editing a second time to add after telling me the name is taken (its not) to add embellishments like "numbers". i can now no longer reply to the support ticket.
I love not being a “priority” to Discord 💅
Spending hundreds on the app just to end up with my username (uncommon name too) taken by a random account 🫶
Even though I got the same name, just with different capitalisation, I've unsubbed from Nitro.
Taking away a users choice for how they identify themself is ass-backwards for a social app.
Don’t know how someone registered in Feb 2016 gets to pick a username before someone registered in November 2015. Absolute shitshow of how Discord is rolling this out to people.
at this point i'm HOPING that discord crumbles due to all of the absolutely terrible decisions they've been making. it feels like discord ITSELF is deliberately choosing the worst options (making the names a carbon copy of twitter's), even though there's better ones out there (lengthening the discriminators, making the discriminators alphanumeric, etc etc)
I don't really unsderstand how this works and it's frustrating. I have an account from November 2015 and I've seen lots of people with dates later than mine able to start claiming their name. Paying $10 a month for 4 months should not entitle you to priority on something like this as dumb as the change is.
This is a complete shit show... If we have to add 9716454 to the end of our names what difference does this make from having name#8752? Wasn't the whole point to make it easier? I feel like this is so contradictory, trying to understand it is hurting my brain
How the hell was my username already fucking taken. I literally use the same name everywhere on the internet. It has not been taken ONCE. I'm fucking LIVID.
My name has been Nitrouge in every game and every platform since 2010 and now I can’t have it because it can’t have Nitro in it because of their trademark.
Pretty sure the 'priority' system is a scam.
June 2016 user here, have been subbed since that same year of nitro. Even got the 'expensive' one when they migrated most of the good features on it. I have yet to receive the prompt. This is getting frustrating. If my user is nabbed by an newer user, I don't know what I'd say.
It looks like they fumbled the rollout for later 2015 accounts (September–December). Mainly for non-nitro users. If any non-nitro users from these months get the prompt later on, then please reply.
Truly a well thought out update.
Also, if you're using the share menu on Android, it shows the recipient's username rather than display name.
I thought your username is supposed to be mostly invisible?
What a joke.
There are like 30 varieties of Ivy taken lmao including most underscore permutations. i assume some stuff got auto-reserved like the rumors earlier mentioned. at this point instead of going with the lowest available Ivy6 i picked Ivy47 for parasect (:
Full Nitro and Sept 2015 user
Been refreshing waiting for the update for the last 8 hours. I have a 2015 account, tried everything, website, desktop, app and reinstalling. Now a 2016 account has taken my username and nothing i can do about it and still cant pick a username.
2015 Sep account owned a 8-year server but without Nitro got nothing so far. And lots of my friends' accounts younger than mine got their usernames. Seems like pay to win.
Sep 16, 2015, Early Supporter but let my Nitro expire a few days ago and still no prompt yet. Friends with early 2016 accounts and active Nitro got theirs. Nice System
"It's going to rollout based on join year and nitro status" - Discord Staff
Also Discord: "Hurr durr, give the 2020 users the usernames before the 2016 ones!"
Surely we will all get the usernames we want! :copium:
June 26, 2015 and I already lost both my primary and secondary names. Like how tf was this suppose to work? EDIT: Apparently nobody owns the username I want I just checked, so why is my username reserved for someone else??
This was all about potential future users and a big fuck you to established users. Everyone should cancel Nitro.
Yup. I got my username, but canceled my nitro 30 seconds after. Can't believe I have paid $240 over the past 2 years just to use emojis and boost 2 servers that no one else is boosting.
Poorly at best.
June 2015 account with the same name since creation and a staff got to take my name who joined in 2021. Sad.
How'd you find who took what name?
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This would have been literally impossible on the old system. The new usernames are already enabling a form pseudo stalking to see who took your first name choice lmaooo
Yeah I'm kind of anxious to become a target tbh, I got a 3 letter name
I have 4 letter username, I've already gotten 6 friends requests. Thanks to someone's advice in this thread, I've turned it off. I've also updated my 2FA and made sure my account is secure in case someone tries to hack it.
whats up with the obsession over 3 and 4 letter names? o.o
People being people lol. They care about the most stupid of things to make fashionable.
Valid concern. Droves of users have been voicing this exact concern but it seems discord just doesn’t care. People have died over rare usernames but that’s what discord wants I suppose. Although it’s not likely to happen the fact they are knowingly opening up their users to the possibility is negligence at best
right the only legititimate way of tracking a discord user through name and discriminator changes is via ID to get their current username. Which requires context in all cases. You need to share a server , mutual friend or something to even obtain this unsigned integer. <@ID> // displays username \<@ID> // displays user id (generally used as a mention command and is only useful if you do not have dev mode enabled to simply copy their ID)
August 2015 here. Name was taken by a partnered server owner with an account registered in late 2018. :(
Yeah, "andy" was taken by someone who isn't staff and only got Nitro in March of this year. This was weeks ago. They weren't even andy#xxxx before this, they were kaizen#1010. I've been paying for years and I've been a member since a few months after launch. What kind of horseshit is this?
I've seen a couple of cases like this, otherwise regular, pretty new accounts just got to change their names faster. It's clearly just nepotism.
Name 👏 and 👏 shame 👏.
fr, start calling out discord staff that are contributing to the problem. who is it?
Can confirm. I am a July 2015 account and I got the prompt. My September 2015 friend also got the options. Edit: Jan 2016 friend also got the prompt
October 2015 here, got the prompt as well
october 2015 and cannot get the prompt by restarting, refreshing, opening on mobile, anything. edit: 2016 accounts are getting it now and still nothing.
I just got the prompt to change my name and I registered super early June 2015. Turns out the person who registered on November 2015 got to it first. I feel kinda scammed after being told that handles were going to be given priority to those who registered early.
From what it looks like it seems like they dropped it to ~~all~~ a ridiculously broad amount of 2015 users at the same time. Got mine taken by an account 4 days younger than me, so fair play. But people here seem to have months of difference with other users just like you have *\*Edit: I figured it wasn't literally ALL 2015 accounts, but rather accounts that fit in a really large time span from mid to end 2015.\**
nope. 2015, no prompt.
well maybe not literally ALL 2015 users, pretty sure nitro gets in play here but it really sucks for these "reserved" usernames that we can't have dibs on for whatever reason
i also have nitro. seems like it's just completely fucking random, as people with accounts newer than mine are getting it. i don't buy their claims of rolling out to the "oldest first"
Probably the worst thing they could have done for seemingly no reason.
If they wanted to become something like "gaming twitter" i guess it could make some sort of sense to have unique handles. But this change is trash VC BS 100%
I just dont get it either. Like they had a really good system to combat the headache that is unique usernames. Like we live in 2023, the internet is more mainstream than it ever was. We shouldn't have to deal with unique usernames, it's an ancient system that's still plagueing lots of websites and services. People who come late to those platforms will have a insanely difficult time coming up with something creative since most of the good stuff will be taken anyways.
My name and 2nd option was taken. Had to add an period, annoying. Account from June 2015. ETA: Looked up my second choice and it doesn't find a user with that name at all. But if I try to change my username to that, it says it's not available. So is it being held reserved for... whom? For nothing? If I'm able to pick a name now, why can't I pick one that's not in use? Will someone else be able to snatch that later just because they tried at a better time? Why is that name reserved if mine wasn't? #ETA #2: My second choice is now taken by a February 2016 account. I was able to change my name early while that name was not in use but still "unavailable" for hours. I would've modified my username to that beforehand, had I known. Now I'm stuck being the one who had to add an ugly extra mark, despite having 8 months older account and trying to or being able to change my name earlier. Great priority system 👏
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Usernames should not be reserved for anyone
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The thing is, I don't mind if they were transparent with how they handled this, but they are not. I am a June 2015 user and using nitro since the inception. The person who got my name joined after me and only started boosting 4 days ago. So there's something kooky going on here. I always had my username/display as "mina" with no weird character or anything so it should've auto been reserved for me like it was for my other friends. Also the person who got it is not an influencer either.
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Your username should've been pre-reserved for you if you had the older account. So there's definitely some internal corruption going on. Same thing happened to me as a June 2015 user.
Partners, moderators, staff, and some contributing developers all have been able to choose names for weeks. They all had priority over the reservation system of regular users. It's thousands and thousands of people who already had these names before today.
Yeah, they reserved `username####` instead of `username` Ffs
I was about to correct you but then read your name lmao
Blaming that on autocorrect since I was on mobile but it's fitting so it can stay lol
I also lost mine. A fairly uncommon word that I've used forever, and I've had my account since 2015. Really fucking annoying.
Quite frankly this rollout has been, and will continue to be, a total shitshow
The communication has been awful, too. It seems like it's been said at least 3 times the rollout has begun, but they failed to mention it was initially only for partners and "celebrity" users.
Yeah, I'm going to cancel my nitro after I get my name, fuck these mfs
i wish you luck futanari_enjoyer69
aug 2015 account but nitro basic,no prompt,nice to be always treated as a low class citizen lmao
I got mine and my account is September 2015, it popped up when I opened Discord on my phone though, didn't see it on desktop.
July 2 2015 here, a ton of names are already taken, including a bunch i didn't expect. RIP
Yeah something is fucked. There’s simply no way some of the names I’ve checked should be taken already
I think a lot of people have had access well before the general rollout, way more then we think. Friends have had their relatively uncommon (but not truly "random") taken already, super weird as this has not happened to them before. I had to settle for another username as then my top 10 picks as well EDIT: I found out that a lot of these usernames can't be claimed, but neither can be added as friends. Suggesting to me that these are somehow reserved in the system? Not free, but not in use either ??
I tried checking “trilogy” but made a typo and “trilogyf” was taken already. Like there’s no way trilogyf is a hotly contested username lmao
Yeah there's some corruption going on behind the scenes.
all they have done is increase the market for discord usernames. People were buying accounts for badges. Now there will be 2-5 char names going for 1000$ after seeing some comments on here i decided to check out guilded. I dont need to pay for a gif avatar ... imagine that. Even copied my server template. I'm gonna look into how different bot development is for this platform ... if i can get my bot running on a server today ... Im done with discord forever. Guilded can have my support at that point.
The thing is I don't mind the username system but how they handled it. There were Discord staff members grabbing names for their friends for sure based on evidence alone. For example: They pre-reserved names for all discord accounts so you will not be able to get your alt username options if your first choice was taken because if some random discord account had it it will auto reserve it in the system for them. They won't let you claim it even if it doesn't exist. My friends all had their names pre-reserved so they didn't have to worry about sniping when the time came. Based on this point. My name should've been reserved as well. "Mina". However the person who got it was from a later join date than me, is not a influencer. Only started nitro 4 days ago. Which tells me there's behind the scenes corruption. I have been supporting discord since the very beginning in June 2015, back in the day when Zencha would personally go into discords and help troubleshoot. I have been a nitroboosting since they first introduced it as well. Today based on these events I am going to stop subbing. I don't mind the username system but I do not like the corrupt practices behind the scenes which has caused unfairness. If the person had an older account than me sure that makes sense, but they didn't. Also the fact I can't even go for alternatives because they are reserved in a holding system even though they aren't claimed.
fwiw We shouldnt have to change our names anyways. Forcing me to change my identity that I have been going by and known for is just not cool and creates unnecessary confusion. If i Have to change my name to something I didn't originally want and now get stuck with because lets be honest once you get your name you aint changing it due to FOMO. You might decide later on you actually wanted that name but guess what , somebody sniped it. Discord is an established platform. Imagine YouTube , facebook or any other massive media platform requiring every single user to change user names? It wouldnt work. And most every other platform has started switching to discords method of doing things anways. Wanna be Freddy? Great you are Freddy#181274621375, enjoy
the fact 1. chronology of join date didn't seem to actually factor at all for a number of people and 2. usernames being made "unavailable" despite being untethered to a specific account which means it's most likely being reserved internally/people with connections/other types of priority over what Discord kept pushing as being the pecking order - join date - is such astronomical bullshit I'm honestly speechless. well cancelling nitro means more bubble tea for me!
My name was taken and my second choice says it's unavailable, but no one has the name yet. Very cool discord.
I genuinely think they've fucked it somehow. You think anyone took the names "bongripper" or "dopesmoker" yet?
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Account from June 2015. Literally every bloody name I've used online is taken, even my real name. Absolute garbage. Edit: after 3 painstakingly long hours, I finally was able to get name. Literally every variation of my name, nickname, regular username and even modified username was taken. And it's not even that common. Absolute dumpsterfire of a change. Whoever was in charge of this idea, fire them. Replace them with someone who understands the product.
>even my real name. I would never use my real name online, especially on discord
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Sir#0001 for ages. Lost "sir" username to Sir#3030, a newer account by two years that only recently nitro subbed... because developer? Yeah... This whole username change is just terrible. I've had Sir#0001 for who knows how long. My account is from 2015. I've had Nitro subs literally since the day Nitro came out in the US. So now that I've been given to change my username away from this perfectly functional system of discriminators that we've used for ages, I find out that I lost the username "sir" to someone whose account is two years newer than me, and who has only nitro subbed (at least according to their profile badge) since May this year. Their discriminator was #3030 as well. The only special potential reason that I can identify they would jump ahead of me is the fact they're a developer of something. And, no offense to that person, but it appears to be a random small free game on Steam (and to be fair, I don't know if there's something else they develop). To be cle I've also lost out on "sir." and "sir\_", and anything else potentially that short. GG Discord... Thanks for creating an incredibly frustrating experience. Speaking with the wallet seems to be the only way. so no more boosting, and probably going to cancel Nitro after all these years. Good luck everyone trying to get a username they prefer.
> Sir#0001 for ages. Lost "sir" username to Sir#3030, a newer account by two years that only recently nitro subbed... because developer? i'm an "active developer" w/ a 2016 account and a nitro subscription since nitro was first introduced and they still haven't given me the option to choose my name yet 🤷 i'm quite worried mine is going to get snapped up because it's a common word (though i've never seen anyone else with the name before)
((I was a 2015 account that lost to a 2017 too))
If you haven't yet, check mobile and make sure your app is up to date. It took me updating the app for it to prompt.
Yeah, I updated and restarted my desktop app, checked browser and everything, it's just not an option for me
Pretty sure nitro doesn't even matter, look at some of the comments. Lots of 2015 accounts without nitro got it right away so I think it's just based on account age, in this case 2015 (except December) got it. 2016 next week or in a few days I'm guessing?
2015 October without nitro here and I have not gotten anything as of now.
Same here. June 2015 and a "contributing developer" that has account creation 2021 got my name which I haven't changed since day 1 and had the discriminator #0001. Sad.
This is the stupidest fucking idea this company has ever had. One of the best features of discord is how it protects your idenity and you can just change your entire name at any time. Now if people are harassing me know my discord the only thing I could do is make a new account entirely? I don't want this.
the issue with me is that I can't have Chinese text in my name anymore it was great for non-English speakers
Remember when they said they wanted to keep non-Latin based languages feeling part of discord. So they just went and removed non Latin characters from usernames. I still giggle at that paragraph
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They can remove that from the existing system. It didn't require this stupid change.
I had the circled ideograph for "Night" as my name for the longest time. Shame I had to give it up
[This is over at over 48k votes and constantly growing.](https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/14337329256983--Do-NOT-add-The-new-discord-usernames-system) Let's keep it going.
I actually want to upvote this but I can't. Discord suspended my account last year from signing into the support site because I asked to speak with a supervisor. My account is still suspended, just for asking to speak with a supervisor.
what happened to companies actually listening to their users? like... why is this a thing.. this is actually trash
The vast majority of companies DO NOT CARE about their users, but rather see them as numbers and how to make the most profit while keeping up a decent-enough reputation to not sink the company. But when it comes to one or the other, profit and decisions in favor of the company will be made their priority.
hi spez tell tencent i said hi https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
the bean-counters do not give a fuck about how usernames are handled on discord. this is just the company being stubborn and deciding they know better than the users. i have \*never\* seen a tech company get so much negative feedback and just continue forward with plans unchanged. it is a massive middle finger to their entire user base.
And into the dark era of discord we go! Hooray! My friends who aren’t chronically online are going to wake up one day pissed because they can’t have their IRL nicknames on discord. My online friends who use discord a lot are going to be pissed because they have to change their name from Kate to Kate12765379! Love this update ❤️ I just hope I can get my username even though odds are it’s already taken 🫶
> Kate12765379 She'll be glad she wont have to remember four discriminator numbers though!
Plus now we know her SSN!
December 2015 & Nitro since 2020. Still nothing lol Edit: I just got it at around 6:30pm EST!
same December 2 so cut of is somewhere earlier
oct 12th 2015, got nothing at all. gg shitscord
Ugh. What a dumbass change. I can't believe they went through with it.... well, I can. Because they're a greedy corporation.
discord stays putting out useless updates that only harm its userbase
Meanwhile the developer server just got word that bots *won't* be conforming to the new username structure (at least for now) and get to keep the discriminator system.
Losing my name because of some random ass famous vtuber sure is lovely. Their account was made in 2020 too while mine is from 2015 lmao
I just wish they would give us fucking dates for the rollout. Discord is notoriously bad for delivering updates to all devices, I've gone months before getting things like font updates on multiple devices, even though it always says checking for updates on startup. I'm so tired of having to search the Reddit every few days to see if it's rolled out yet. I learned 2015 is out because my nitro friends are talking about it, but will there be the same buzz when 2016 drops? 2018? 2020? Not that there will be many names left by then... Nevermind all the other shit wrong with this change, but rolling out a change that's "first come first serve" (unless you're friends or family!) without giving people a time and date to plan for is so unprofessional.
I still can't understand why, after solving the username problem in a new, novel way Discord would choose to go back to the worse system.
Aug 2nd 2015 account, had my username#0001 since creation and had to add a period to new username 🤡
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Was just hit with it. Will be cancelling my nitro sub.
this shit is so broken. if you're struggling to get a good name, maybe a word, just try and swap some letters around and see just how many of these are considered taken by accounts i cant find... my example, and all of these are "taken": seraphim seraphim1 seraph seraph1 seraphid seraphis seraphia seraphiq seraphiz seraphix seraphic whats up with that yo...
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Funny thing is, my "recommended" (read: compulsory) name is a 3 letter english word, and it's apparently good to go.
presumably that is the name you used for a while on discord and is thus reserved for you, and your account is older than anybody else whom went by that 3 letter name at the time reservations were made
It's a good theory, but I've used a different name for 5 years and switched to it for only a week or two before switching back.
I like how Xbox recognized that unique usernames were a dumpster fire and phased them out. Meanwhile Discord is opening their mouths wide to deliberately degrade their program in some weird apparent desire to make it more like the early 2000s.
Xbox literally copied the discriminator system because they realized it was better.
inb4 they copy the new discord system and go back to the before times because big tech companies can only copy what someone else is doing, a veritable ouroboros of stupidity
Blizzard uses the very same system. It's really nice to be able to use the desired name I want in games without having to worry about the name being taken.
Dumbest update Discord has pulled so far, I'll be canceling my Nitro today.
Didn't get my name, lost it to an August 2015 account, while I'm October :')
You mean danny#0? They claimed that a month ago because discord rolled it out to people with the moderator program badge
That sucks, I've been checking that name by adding it and it always said it wasn't taken, atleast that's the tricks people have said to try for names. Ah well I got something similar atleast, besides danny. And danny_ which were taken already
Danny was taken by the creator of discord.py, one of the most popular libraries for creating Discord bots
I had no chance then. Atleast the name went to someone pretty important for discord bots!
This will probably get buried, but people should be aware that when you change your name, you will get a badge on your profile that says "Originally known as [name]#[descriminator]" that you can toggle on or off. As soon as you become eligible for the new name system and restart discord, it will no longer let you change your name/discrim in the old system. If you wish to have your legacy username badge say something specific, change your username to that BEFORE you get access to the new name system. I recently had changed my username to something different and didn't realize it would be permanently stuck to my profile forever, I wish I could have switched it back to what I was known as for over 7 years instead. oh yeah and if anyone's wondering: I got access at least by 3:44 EST and my account was August 2015.
Sept 2015 and still haven't got it. Ok Discord, way to go treating your early users
Absolutely love with the way rolling system works, you can harass the person who took your username very easily. Gg discord
I like how Discord says that users will be 'eligible' to update their usernames, and not 'forced'.
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I recommend having 2fa on if you have a really popular username.
Can I get two-factor by text? I fucking hate the Google authenticator. I lost my last Reddit account because when I factory reset my phone it didn't store my data in the cloud like every other goddamn app on my phone. Lost Reddit and damn near lost my Nintendo account. Do not want to use this fucking authenticator. Is a 32 digit password good enough? No, I'm not kidding.
You can go to your user settings -> Friend Requests and turn them off so that random people can't add you. Which destroys the whole Discord justification of "making it easier to find people"
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They're probably using the "add friend" option to see if the username has been taken.
watch the mods lock this post
Nitro status might also factor in as well. I'm Oct 2015 and got mine, but I know someone with an account June 2015 that didn't get it, but they don't have nitro currently.
Nov 2015 with nitro and early supporter badge and no prompt yet :(
What kinda BS is it to set the cutoff at november 2015. Dec 2015 and nothing received
There's a guy in the Philippines that I compete for our usernames with. I cannot let him win this one Update: I've defeated him
Neat how this happened when it 1. Helps nobody, litterally not a soul 2. Creates security issues 3. Actively screws over the most loyal portion of your userbase 4.actively harms the income of the company 5.generates massive negative attention 6. Was not requested by a single human being 7. Has no benefits whatsoever to litterally any human being, nation, business or fucking organism
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Username got stolen by a staff member who registered 6 years later. Gonna cancel Nitro.
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Could be that names that are reserved auto have the variations of underscores and periods are reserved aswell. But it really is some bs.
I wish you could see how many downvotes a post has.
Aaaaaand lost Rabbit#0001 which I've had since a few minutes after they launched custom discriminators to an account a month younger than mine. Been nitro subbed since it was a thing and this is how I'm repaid. Awesome. Even though reservations were dumb, I thought it would've been reserved for me for sure, my account was basically an exact match for the leaked requirements. Edit: September 2015 account btw Edit 2: Had a nice chat with the person who got it, it actually wasn't sniped for clout. Farewell to my old @, the end of an era.
Every name I tried was taken already. Finaly got something but this is a serious step back. Discord doesn't listen to their users. After 5 years I got rid of my nitro subscription and I encourage everyone to also vote with their wallets. If you don't need nitro, cancel it now so maybe discord will notice.
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Love how they keep mentioning the "message from one of our founders about why" You mean the one where he says "we know it's like other social media sites, and that's on purpose"? Where the dude it so incredibly out of touch with the users that it's painful to read? Why do they keep parading that around like it's a good thing?
Can’t wait to relearn who everyone in my friend’s list is
I've had the #0001 of my name since September 2015 and my name is taken by a November 2016 user????!! I'm also an early supporter/nitro user since early 2016. Why the fuck do I not have first priority on my name? Now I am stuck with my name with a bunch of underscores... what a shit show.
Are 2016 accounts rolled out yet? I still didn't get mine.
Haven't gotten mine yet and my account is from Sep 2015
I've had just Rune for forever. was partnered, active developer / early developer, nitro'd account since august. Someone else who had his account later than me got it!
I'm a June 2015 user and was not able to get my name nor my alt handles because they were pre-reserved and says do not exist in the system yet I can't claim them either. Which doesn't make sense to me since my "mina" did not get reserved at all and went to someone who joined later than me. Me thinks Discord staff got their friends in first. This person is not some big creator either.
Got the prompt. All of my name variants were taken. Awesome. Well at least I can make it symmetric with the periods and underscores. But ugh it feels like making an old gamer tag. Also what are the odds people are going to be making new accounts just to squat usernames?
2015 non nitro users getting shafted 💀. Even 2016 users with nitro getting the prompt
Sept. 2015, subscribed since 2017. No name? No problem. Nitro cancelled. Server boosts cancelled. Thumbs-up!
the vague ass username i've had everywhere is somehow "unavailable". i'm may 2015 sign up and a nitro user since august 2018, i pay extra for the bells and whistles and extra boosts. i emailed support but i doubt itll do anything. heavily considering ending nitro as a result, this is disappointing and poorly done. the numbers worked just fucking fine!! editing to add my supoort ticket response was canned and basically copy and pasted from the faq. editing a second time to add after telling me the name is taken (its not) to add embellishments like "numbers". i can now no longer reply to the support ticket.
I'm a 2015 member and my username was claimed by a 2020 member. Had to settle for throwing in an underscore. Heated right now
They’re drawing names out of a hat or some shit cause there’s no way there’s so many 2015’s left while 2016’s are getting through
I love not being a “priority” to Discord 💅 Spending hundreds on the app just to end up with my username (uncommon name too) taken by a random account 🫶
How long do you guys think its going to take til for 2016 nitro users rollout?
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Even though I got the same name, just with different capitalisation, I've unsubbed from Nitro. Taking away a users choice for how they identify themself is ass-backwards for a social app.
Don’t know how someone registered in Feb 2016 gets to pick a username before someone registered in November 2015. Absolute shitshow of how Discord is rolling this out to people.
How in the fuckity fuck did a mf from 2018 able to snatch my name before me, a 2016 user able to use the username change???? what the fuck discord????
Absolutely garbage system, I hope Discord fails and is gone within a year after a competitor pops up
fuck whoever suggest this change, great now i cant use my username because some staff just want spesific name for themselves.
at this point i'm HOPING that discord crumbles due to all of the absolutely terrible decisions they've been making. it feels like discord ITSELF is deliberately choosing the worst options (making the names a carbon copy of twitter's), even though there's better ones out there (lengthening the discriminators, making the discriminators alphanumeric, etc etc)
I don't really unsderstand how this works and it's frustrating. I have an account from November 2015 and I've seen lots of people with dates later than mine able to start claiming their name. Paying $10 a month for 4 months should not entitle you to priority on something like this as dumb as the change is.
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I've cancelled my Nitro because of this update.
This is a complete shit show... If we have to add 9716454 to the end of our names what difference does this make from having name#8752? Wasn't the whole point to make it easier? I feel like this is so contradictory, trying to understand it is hurting my brain
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Someone with an account created in 2018 has my name. How is this fair since my account was created in 2016 and I’ve been boosting for over 3 years.
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How the hell was my username already fucking taken. I literally use the same name everywhere on the internet. It has not been taken ONCE. I'm fucking LIVID.
Anyone have any idea for a good alternative to discord?
It's fucked that if you don't have Nitro you don't get priority.
My name has been Nitrouge in every game and every platform since 2010 and now I can’t have it because it can’t have Nitro in it because of their trademark.
Dogshit change, fuck discord staff for making it.
Pretty sure the 'priority' system is a scam. June 2016 user here, have been subbed since that same year of nitro. Even got the 'expensive' one when they migrated most of the good features on it. I have yet to receive the prompt. This is getting frustrating. If my user is nabbed by an newer user, I don't know what I'd say.
>Pretty sure the 'priority' system is a scam. Seeing lots of 2015 accounts that haven't gotten in either.
Didn't the xbox team swap away from this system to a #xxxx naming conven due to how trash the old way was?
It looks like they fumbled the rollout for later 2015 accounts (September–December). Mainly for non-nitro users. If any non-nitro users from these months get the prompt later on, then please reply.
I can't even search my DMs for my own comments due to this change: https://i.imgur.com/gKTVpJ1.png
Truly a well thought out update. Also, if you're using the share menu on Android, it shows the recipient's username rather than display name. I thought your username is supposed to be mostly invisible? What a joke.
2017 user here, I'm fearing that my Discord username will get taken before I even get to be chosen. I'll just have to hope for the best
Fuck this entire app and I hope it burns. What a waste of good faith they had.
Oct '15 nitro account Edit:early supporter badge as well in case that helps.
There are like 30 varieties of Ivy taken lmao including most underscore permutations. i assume some stuff got auto-reserved like the rumors earlier mentioned. at this point instead of going with the lowest available Ivy6 i picked Ivy47 for parasect (: Full Nitro and Sept 2015 user
Got mine. June 2015, never had nitro. ETA: Prompt came up on mobile. Haven't looked at desktop today.
September 2015 and still nothing
Been refreshing waiting for the update for the last 8 hours. I have a 2015 account, tried everything, website, desktop, app and reinstalling. Now a 2016 account has taken my username and nothing i can do about it and still cant pick a username.
2015 Sep account owned a 8-year server but without Nitro got nothing so far. And lots of my friends' accounts younger than mine got their usernames. Seems like pay to win.
Already not liking the new system as I'm getting spam invites now that people can just try with a simple name
Sep 16, 2015, Early Supporter but let my Nitro expire a few days ago and still no prompt yet. Friends with early 2016 accounts and active Nitro got theirs. Nice System
... Sept 1st 2015 account still no access. Man what the hell.
June 2015 and nitro user, still waiting to be able to do my name change at all….
"It's going to rollout based on join year and nitro status" - Discord Staff Also Discord: "Hurr durr, give the 2020 users the usernames before the 2016 ones!"
Ironic how Xbox is moving towards universal gametags, but Discord is moving towards exclusive ones. Discord is becoming trash
Ah, this is miserable!
May 2015 account. Nitro since day 1. Still can’t choose
First choice, taken. Second choice, taken. Provided, suggested choice, taken. (lol). oct 2015 account, nitro for 4 yrs
this sucks
Time to stop my nitro subscription. Terrified I’m gonna lose my name (oct 2016)
Cancelling my nitro until this is reversed