SAN FRANCISCO — The social app Discord, a favorite of gamers, inadvertently stirred internal strife after announcing last week that it will force its millions of members to pick new usernames. Now the ...

The good old days of Discord users being branded by numbers are on the way out. Now, get ready for Discord to feel a lot more like the average social networking app with its new naming system, wherein ...

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 ...

The new badges will display a user's previous username with the discriminators that are being removed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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Discord is all about being able to communicate with other people. First created to facilitate better communication in online games, Discord has since become much more than a social gaming platform.