Jun
7th
2023
PSA: Discord account names · 1:44am Jun 7th, 2023
As some of you may know Discord recently decided to get rid of the 4 number identifier attached to your discord account name.
As of yesterday they've begun rolling out the ability for us regular folk to claim our names and at the time of this message nearly all 2015 accounts and some 2016 nitro accounts will be able to claim your name.
To do so relaunch (or just launch) Discord and follow the popup on your welcome screen to claim your name... before someone else does.
If this is a good thing or not is open to debate and apparently has been so amongst discord devs for some time now. On the upside it means people like me that have used the name almost interchangeably with my real name are now easy to find... only the downside it means we're also open to hellspam if we don't close off our messaging.
C'est la vie
Yep -- with my 2015 date I was able to use Silvadel, no numbers or anything. Was glad nobody snatched it from under me. Hard to believe I entered discord only 3 months after it started. Before that it was skype.