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I hate the discriminator system, one of the main reasons I pay for Nitro is so i can set it to 0001. I'd rather be "TheRealChomp" or "ChompChomp" or something, versus having to give out my name and number.

We have almost 7000 people on our discord server, and we have a few people with colliding usernames, and also bot who shares a name with another user. The only way to tell these people apart is their profile pic (which people change somewhat regularly), or discriminator. Rather frustrating UX.

That's still going to be an issue though because you can set the same display name?

This doesn't solve anything.

  > I'd rather be "TheRealChomp" or "ChompChomp" or something, versus having to give out my name and number.

I dunno, I have a very common English word username on Telegram and Twitter and I can't even count on both of my hands and feet on how much I've been harassed to hand those names over.

On discord? same name? never.

IMHO "picking a globally-unique username that will never be taken anywhere unless someone is explicitly trying to steal your identity" is an important little rite of adulthood in the modern world.

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