Some servers on the chat app let you change the way your name appears. Here's how to customize it. Adam Benjamin has helped people navigate complex problems for the past decade. The former digital ...

Popular chat and streaming app Discord is making every single one of its users change their names, and you could be forgiven for wondering why make such a disruptive move at all. But the platform’s ...

Discord is making a rather big change for usernames on the platform. With gaming expanding in major ways within the last few years and allowing players to play with each on various platforms, Discord ...

Discord is making changes to its username on the platform. The company recently announced that it is doing away with the old usernames, which include numeric digits as suffixes, and moving to ...

Discord is a mess. That’s not just one fuddy-duddy tech writer’s opinion, it’s effectively the official word from Discord itself. As part of an effort to be more straightforward and user-friendly, the ...

When you open a Discord account, you might first notice that the default avatar is probably not what you’d like. The question is, how feasible is it to change your avatar? Well, we can say for certain ...

Everyone has a nickname and that’s also true in Discord. Everytime you join a Discord server or create your own, you can either use your current username, or a nickname will be assigned to you.

Bottom line: Nearly half of all Discord friend requests fail because the service's case-sensitive usernames with four-digit attachments are too difficult for many users to remember. This is the main ...

Discord is a pretty good product. It’s an easy way to communicate with friends, find realtime communities around topics of mutual interest, and it’s crucial for making use of voice chat across most ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Discord’s major username changes to adopt standardized handles aren’t sitting well with its longtime users.