A studio has posted a warning to fellow indie builders after it was unable to assert its personal username on Discord.
In a Twitter thread, indie workforce Rusty Lake detailed the difficulty it has skilled securing its personal username for its 240K+ member Discord group.
Discord introduced plans to vary its usernames earlier this month. At current, usernames are case delicate and have a four-digit identifier, known as a discriminator, appended to create a novel username, however the brand new adjustments take away the necessity for the discriminator, that means you do not have to recollect the random quantity mixture when attempting so as to add associates.
The issue, nevertheless, is that the staggered rollout means some are getting the possibility to safe preferences sooner than others, which incorporates username squatters.
Now we now have a danger of impersonation + additional authorized prices to file a potential trademark infringement. In any case @Discord_support was useful sufficient to reply with an computerized response e mail to this problem and the comply with up is directing us to a different helpdesk.
— Rusty Lake 🚣♂️ Underground Blossom 🚇🌸 (@rustylakecom) Could 19, 2023
“A warning for all of the indie devs ready to assert their very own username [at] Discord,” the Dice Escape developer tweeted.
“We simply acquired an e mail that we, as Verified House owners, may lastly submit a brand new username and wow… ‘rustylake’ is already taken! If we as a server proprietor with 240K+ members can’t even declare it…
“Now we now have a danger of impersonation and additional authorized prices to file a potential trademark infringement,” the studio added by way of a separate tweet. “In any case, Discord assist was useful sufficient to reply with an computerized response e mail to this problem and the follow-up is directing us to a different helpdesk.
“Actually questioning how they’re rolling out this new function… if a random person can squat on established (server) model names.”
On the time of writing, Discord has but to reply publicly to Rusty Lake’s feedback.
