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It is rather unusual, honestly. Even Venmo uses just an app-specific name. That's probably a lesson in product design: have your own usernames.


I'd personally for for the method used by Blizzard and Discord where a randomly generated ID is the actual unique value, while the username is just a display setting.


I get all the advantages of that but for some reason it's so hard when you get into a game and you're trying to get everyone there into a discord.

Riot does this with Valorant too and the implementation is a nightmare.




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