[unionpivo]

Problem with this is that for a lot of games and integrations, having the same name on server as you have in game is expected. This will screw that up, for a lot of people.

Same is true for various YouTube/twitch channel communities.

And then of course, some smaller companies use discords as a better TeamSpeak alternative.

Right now you could just have one identity and change nick for each server. Now I'll probably end up having half a dozen different accounts, each with some servers.

This is kind of stupid, and will kill some neat things.

Oh well we knew it couldn't last and VC's will want their money back.

[hamishwhc]

This completely misses the part where Discord is keeping the server nicknames system and adding a display name (that will be your existing username), like Twitter’s username + display name system. You can absolutely keep having different names for different servers. I still think this change is dumb, but you concerns you’ve expressed aren’t going to be a problem.

[eep_social]

Discord currently makes it difficult to have multiple accounts by requiring a phone number and limiting to one account per phone. Doubt they’ll change that policy any time soon. Will be interesting to see if they pause or change course on this now that the feedback has been overwhelmingly negative (at least in my bubble).

[imtringued]

I have four discord accounts.

There is a way to bypass the phone verification. You need a trustworthy/legitimate email address. Also, if you mess up they might start tracking you and flag you as suspicious which means they will start asking for phone numbers on any account you create.

[eep_social]

Ah right, I probably forgot to pay off the folks keeping my social credit score up to date and got caught out.

[Macha]

At one stage they were developing an account switcher feature, so it is at least semi-supported