

What’s the deal with discord usernames?ĭiscord users have long been free to choose any name they wanted, even ones already in use. A Reddit thread on the change drew more than 4,000 comments, the vast majority of them angry or at least unhappy. But it’s a big deal for people who rely on the mid-sized social network to recruit fellow gamers, swap virtual weapons and organize strategy in multiplayer games. The issue may sound trivial compared to real-life concerns such as mass shootings and killer storms. Now the question is whether that the change will escalate into all-out warfare that could include players threatening one another in order to seize control of popular names. The social app Discord, a favorite of gamers, inadvertently stirred internal strife after announcing last week that it will force its millions of members to pick new usernames.
