It works on steam. You can search a username and it will give you matches, or you can search an email. They could also generate a unique ID for every account (I'm sure they do this in the background anyway) and let you search on that as well for an exact match.
This is a good idea.
I mean the twitch app doesn't even let you do this, so it's clearly not a primary use case.
I'm fairly certain that the vast majority of people use their browser. Losing that url seems detrimental.
No reason for the personal dig, either contribute to the topic or see yourself out. Did you miss the part where random number/letter strings aren't even available on twitter?
It's a tradeoff. Clearly the future of these services is a closed environment like a mobile app, tv app, console app, etc. (in particular for viewers, less obviously so for streamers).
I mean, the future will include those, but there's zero reason to believe that Browser streaming will go away.
Source please. Which service comparable to twitch allows a zillion users with the same display name while not having a simple URL for their users? How did they figure that out?
I mean, twitter itself does it. You can change your display name. You just have to register with some bullshit unique name first, which seems completely unnecessary given that you also need a phone number or email address. It's probably just some legacy requirement that would be a ton of work to update (like PSN names).
So twitter doesn't really do it.
How exactly is letting you change your display name not letting you change your display name?
Twitter still forces you to pick a unique name first, which is the actual name of your account and always visible while tweeting.
1. You don't use it, and many people do. You not using it doesn't mean it's not a more important feature than having the same name as other people on the platform.
What are you basing this on?
It's not necessary though because you already give them unique information in the form of email or phone number. They could randomly generate your hardcoded username and it wouldn't make a difference.
It's not a problem today, so it will never be a problem? That's some pretty awful logic. Especially when it is already an issue today on twitter, which you keep ignoring.
I'm basing it on my experience working on UX, but mostly anecdotes, same as you. Neither of us have access to these services' internal usage metrics, so that's the best we can do.
That... doesn't make sense. Again, the chat problem. If people choose their display names, how do you differentiate them in chat? You started talking about twitch, so don't ignore that part.
It's not a problem today or tomorrow, so how about we tackle it when it becomes one? Or when it is close to becoming one.
Sure, but it doesn't work the same both ways:
Twitch chat is already a complete shithole that serves no function other than selling emotes. lmao at risking degrading it. There are also easy workarounds. You could have "chosen name (account ID)" display instead of "chosen name". You could have options to display one or the other, or both, just like how slack does it. So it's not an issue.
You're completely missing the point.
Again, it's a tradeoff.
Plenty of other services manage it. Discord, steam, slack, twitter (even though it forces you to sign up with a unique name first), facebook (at least it used to, deleted mine a while back).
Yall, I'm not asking for help coming up with a username. lmao.
No it's not. Not everywhere. There is absolutely a risk of making things worse, saying "it's bad already so who cares" is lazy.
They point is you're unwilling to take a few seconds while registering, it seems. There current system works wonderfully.
Yeah, I'm confused at the problem at this point. Even creating a thread is probably more work than coming up with unique names for 10 websites.
I try not to use twitch chat because it's garbage. If you see 40k people watching a stream, notice that you see a very small fraction of those people actually using chat. And thank god for that. Twitch chat is already broken.
The point is it's a pain in the ass to make some bullshit username for every single site I use, and there's little benefit. You guys keep taking the small brained approach that this only applies to twitch. I am making a broader argument.
I use it a lot when watching ~4-6k streamers, and it's good talking. I wouldn't want to complicate things by having a system that potentially allows multiple same names in a chat, especially if done for trolling purposes.
The small brained approach, Jesus Christ. Sorry for being so small brained that I don't see the problem with making up usernames.
Lord knows that twitch chat doesn't have a problem with trolling today. Wouldn't want to tip the balance there. To your concern, there are numerous ways to handle this, including a couple that I posted above. It's not an unsolvable problem. I'm sure people smarter than me could think of even better ways.
There are many benefits from allowing you to use a non-unique username, if you're not even going to bother reading the thread I'm not going to bother to keep responding to you.
I'm sure it's possible, but again, the amount of work for this is so high that it won't happen, because your issue is just not a general issue.
Yeah alright. I read every single word you wrote, but nowhere can I see any benefits besides "it's a bit easier".
Sure, but I still think the benefits of having url.url/Name are greater than being able to pick your own "soft" username and change it. A twitter like system, I could buy. Have a "hard" and a "soft" name. Everything with a social media aspect, IMO, works better with a username than with a number.
Look. THERE. WERE. NO. BUSSES. THERE. I clicked all the damn busses!
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You have 2 different IDs on Steam: think of it like an account name and a profile name.
Havent seen you in threads for a long time booooi. Also, you made me laugh, so thanks :D
