Discord is growing up, so everyone needs to pick a new username
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#6BDVH)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Discord is taking away the four-digit tag that it puts after its usernames as it looks to make it easier to connect" with other users. As noted in a post on Discord's blog, this change will force most users to change their usernames, as Discord will no longer have the four-number tag that distinguishes one person with the same username from another.
Instead of having a four-number discriminator appended to your username, you will now have a unique alphanumeric username with the @" symbol in front of it. You'll also get to choose a non-unique display name that can include special characters, spaces, emoji, and non-Latin characters, making the platform a lot more like other mainstream social networks, such as Twitter and Instagram. It...