Indie studio Rusty Lake is chargeable for puzzle adventures like Rusty Lake Resort, The White Door, and the Dice Escape sequence. Like everybody else on Discord, the studio wants to decide on a brand new username as a part of the shift Discord is presently rolling out, eliminating the outdated system the place everybody had a four-digit quantity referred to as a discriminator hooked up to the top of their identify. Rusty Lake was fortunate sufficient to be supplied the possibility to order a username comparatively early within the course of, however, would not you realize it, someone else acquired there first.
In a warning to different indie builders posted to Twitter, Rusty Lake wrote, “We simply acquired an e mail that we, as Verified Homeowners, may lastly submit a brand new username and wow… ‘rustylake’ is already taken! If we as a server proprietor with 240K+ members cannot even declare it…”
As Rusty Lake went on to elucidate, this is a matter as a result of “Now we have now a danger of impersonation + further authorized prices to file a doable trademark infringement.” The studio reached out to Discord help to ask for assist coping with the state of affairs, and acquired “an computerized response e mail to this challenge and the comply with up is directing us to a different helpdesk.”
Again when Discord introduced that everybody would want to decide on a brand new username, it defined the rationale behind the change: almost half of all good friend requests on the platform fail to attach with the right consumer. That is a major problem, and but it hasn’t stopped Discord from constructing a userbase of virtually 200 million. No, I do not perceive why it is so fashionable both.
This is not the primary time somebody has squatted on a Discord username. The names of a number of fashionable streamers like “pewdiepie” and “ksi” have been taken earlier within the course of, although Discord has since reverted them and reserved the usernames for his or her rightful house owners. In the meantime, a change.org petition began by Discord customers who need the platform to maintain the numerical discriminators has over 15,000 signatures.
