Discord's Recent Announcement made a lot of people mad, mostly because of Hyrum's Law - users were relying on unintended observable behavior in the original username system, and are mad that their use-cases are being broken despite very good evidence that the current system is problematic. I think the major issue here is that Discord didn't go far enough, and as a result, it's confusing users who are unaware of the technical and practical reasons for the username change, or what a username is even for.
TL;DR usernames in the new system are more like friend codes than usernames; Discord should treat them as such
icq needed no usernames! We walked up hill both ways to the internet
I still know my id…I haven’t used icq in well over a decade.
I was just thinking about icq today, about the notification sound it would make like oo oh
You mean “uh oh”
Yeah, we used to have proper phone numbers and we had to remember those on a snow storm!
dang, I forgot my icq but I was proud af since my icq number is really low, most of my friends at the time have one or more digits than I was.