4 pane comic of dolan on the left and spooderman on the right
pane 1 (dolan): cum join opensurce cummunity!
pane 2 (spooderman): shure! how joyn?
pane 3 (dolan): Here discord! (with discord logo)
pane 4 (spooderman with tears in eyes): y u do dis?
it's awful and I hate it. I generally prefer not to have a shared identity across communities, and there's no way to create a usable discord identity without a phone number.
Same. It makes it much easier for someone to doxx you.
Nobody besides you can see your phone number. How on Earth does it make you doxxable?
I was talking about this part:
That’s fair. I agree it should have an option to use a different identity per server while having your account centralized only on their service.
Yeah, I wasn't very clear about what I meant.
🤔...is this a new requirement? I have 2 accounts. Neither with phone numbers and it's never asked me for one
It's decided by server. Most require it to cut down on spamming and trolls
Ah, I've only had one guild require it and I told them to fly a kite XD...I thought this was becoming a general thing and I was going to be really annoyed
If you dm the mods they might let you in but idk. I tried it once but they couldn't get it working
The worst part is that they act like you can set up an account without a number, but then it acts like there is 'suspicious activity' and requires you to verify with the phone immediately.
Just rant into this yesterday trying to set up a work account as my work phone is not a mobile phone with sms.
Was registering really suspicious?
Wait I thought this was dependent on the channel?
I've got a Discord account, on a lot of different channels for FLOSS and other things, and I've never set up a phone number. I have occasionally come across certain channels that I can't join without one, but the vast majority I've joined don't seem to require it
Not to defend Discord, by the way. It's fucking terrible and I despise this trend of telling people to come to your little private clubhouse to learn more about your software so I can sort through a bunch of obnoxious gif and image spam, while using an absolutely terrible search engine.