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If a person or a group needs a unique username, then give them the #'less version of it.

Outside of that, the issue isn't a problem.

For a community based platform like Discord it's valuable to let people have the name they want and if that means people make typos from time to time, then that's necessary.

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The problem is that discord users think they know their username, but they don't. Most people know their phone number, those who don't, know that they don't.

I don't think this is a big enough problem, but I do see how this can be a problem.

It can’t be that hard to add a ‘find your user name here’ link to every place where one would potentially use it.

Do you really want people braindead enough to not figure that out on your platform? I don’t, and certainly not if their incompetence inconveniences the existing users that make the platform what it is.

Discord took VC money. Slow and steady growth is as unacceptable to their investors as going bankrupt. So they have to chase the lowest common denominator of user.

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