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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 ...
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#3: Post edited
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trichoplax
·
2023-06-12T14:49:57Z (over 1 year ago)
Remove mention of linking to Discord as apparently that's not possible
- 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).
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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. However, neither the old style username with a discriminator, nor the new style username becomes a link to Discord. It's currently just some plain text on the user profile.- [Discord's announcement]: https://discord.com/blog/usernames#heading-5 "Section 'How We’re Improving Usernames on Discord'"
- 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).
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- *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.*
- [Discord's announcement]: https://discord.com/blog/usernames#heading-5 "Section 'How We’re Improving Usernames on Discord'"
#2: Post edited
by
trichoplax
·
2023-06-12T14:40:26Z (over 1 year ago)
Mention profile already accepts new style Discord username
- 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).
- [Discord's announcement]: https://discord.com/blog/usernames#heading-5 "Section 'How We’re Improving Usernames on Discord'"
- 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. However, neither the old style username with a discriminator, nor the new style username becomes a link to Discord. It's currently just some plain text on the user profile.
- [Discord's announcement]: https://discord.com/blog/usernames#heading-5 "Section 'How We’re Improving Usernames on Discord'"
#1: Initial revision
by
trichoplax
·
2023-06-12T14:24:04Z (over 1 year ago)
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). [Discord's announcement]: https://discord.com/blog/usernames#heading-5 "Section 'How We’re Improving Usernames on Discord'"