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Should the Discord guidance be updated as discriminators are being removed?
In my profile, it includes this guidance:
Discord
Your Discord user tag, in the format
username#1234.
Discord is in the process of removing discriminators (a discriminator is the #1234). While the removal is still in progress, once it is complete, that guidance should likely be updated to no longer include the discriminator in the example. Something along these lines might work better:
Discord
Your Discord user tag, such as
username
Thoughts?
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From Discord's announcement:
In addition, your previous username and discriminator will continue to work as an alias after the conversion process is done, so old friends who don’t know your new username yet will continue to be able to add you.
So even after the discriminator (the #1234 in username#1234) stops being required, it will still keep working.
With this in mind, I recommend delaying this change to Codidact until Discord has finished applying this change to all users, which is projected to be done "over the course of this year" (2023).
Note that the current behaviour of the Codidact user profile is that any string is accepted as a Discord username, so people who already have the new type of username without a discriminator can already add it to their Codidact user profile.
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