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I wish discord would support fast account user switching. I vastly prefer it to slack but I also enjoy having good workplace hygiene so having my gaming friends pop up during my work hours is less than ideal.

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Agreed, I don't love the fact that my username is tied to all my discord activity. For my friend-based Discord's that's fine but for larger communities or ones that I'd prefer to just be anonymous it's annoying that I either have to tie it all together or I have to log out/in constantly.

I use the Discord PTB (public test build) and the stable client to separate out personal and professional.

It's less than ideal though, it would be so much better if Discord supported multiple accounts

I use Discord in different browsers to keep separate accounts active at the same time. It works pretty well in Firefox and Edge. Running in the browser also means discord can't snoop on what apps you have installed or what games you're running and report them back to home base which is another plus.

I’ll have to give this a try. I already use it in a browser since for some silly reason the discord Mac app blocks virtual cameras like GoPro or manycam.

you can also use Firefox containers to keep it all within Firefox

You would enjoy Firefox Containers!

Not supporting multiple identities is discords biggest feature gap IMO.

On windows you can use sandboxie to start multiple instances in parallel using different credentials, but it's somewhat annoying to use and breaks occasionally.

You should try running your Discords in Firefox Containers [1]. Even if you don’t use Firefox to browse, it’s superior to Sandboxie for containing multiple Discord instances.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

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