The approach differed from social platforms such as Twitter, which has always required users to select unique names.ĭiscord assigned each username an invisible four-digit identifier to distinguish them from duplicates. That was part of the company’s goal of letting users represent themselves freely, according to a detailed May 3 blog post by Discord co-founder and chief technology officer Stanislav Vishnevskiy. Discord, which says it has 150 million monthly active users, has no plans to reconsider the new policy, according to a spokesman.ĭiscord users have long been free to choose any name they wanted, even ones already in use.
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