I mean there’s Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I’m sure there are plenty more (and I haven’t even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a couple months?

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    it was the userhandle thing. they got rid of the numbers from names, now all usernames have to be unique. for people who had 3, 4, and 5 letter usernames, it has become the discord version of highlander, with people harassing, threatening, and bribing other people over usernames they all used to share

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      Oh is that all? I thought it was some kind of actually bad decision that’d ruin the platform from what was said up top!

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        people heavily affected by it probably wouldn’t agree with you, but yeah, for longer usernames it didn’t really do anything.

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          I had a 3 letter pronounceable username. Unsurprisingly it was gone so I added a couple of dots. I might have preferred not to have but I’d rather than than a random string of numbers I can’t remember and didn’t choose!

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          You don’t because they are only allowing a limited subset of characters and punctuation in actual usernames, so that’s not a problem. Display names (whether in general on by server) are another matter but always have been