Username cannot contain 'clyde'
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Username cannot contain 'clyde'
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Re: Username cannot contain 'clyde'
#2This happens because Discord has a system bot also named Clyde that mostly tells users when their messages fail to send (among other system messages).
Re: Username cannot contain 'clyde'
#3"Clyde is the name used for a fake bot in the client. It responds to specific Built-In slash commands (/timeout, /ban, /kick and /nick), and sends private messages with information or errors". https://discord.fandom.com/wiki/Clyde
Re: Username cannot contain 'clyde'
#4The key point here that was hard to find is that they and others had a username containing Clyde set already, and now can't update anything else about their profile because their username has come to be considered invalid.
That's pretty poor judgement to not even communicate this to affected users
Re: Username cannot contain 'clyde'
#5This is a good case for why system bots/messages/etc. shouldn't be given regular names (and perhaps distinguished through other means too); if the error was instead "Username cannot contain 'discord'", it'd be more obvious.
Re: Username cannot contain 'clyde'
#6This is a good case for why system bots/messages/etc. shouldn't be given regular names (and perhaps distinguished through other means too); if the error was instead "Username cannot contain 'discord'", it'd be more obvious.
This of course rests on the assumption that there is such a thing as a 'regular name'.
I'm obliged to link you to 'falsehoods programmers believe about names' now. I'm not happy about it, but those are the rules.
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Re: Username cannot contain 'clyde'
#7This is a good case for why system bots/messages/etc. shouldn't be given regular names (and perhaps distinguished through other means too); if the error was instead "Username cannot contain 'discord'", it'd be more obvious.
I feel bad for all the Alexas and the few Siris out there that have had their names hijacked my a couple of the biggest companies on the planet.
Re: Username cannot contain 'clyde'
#8Why is an internal system in the same namespace as users?
I wonder whether there are constraints that made it difficult to implement this functionality in another way, or this is just a bad design decision.
Re: Username cannot contain 'clyde'
#9This is a good case for why system bots/messages/etc. shouldn't be given regular names (and perhaps distinguished through other means too); if the error was instead "Username cannot contain 'discord'", it'd be more obvious.
I feel bad for all the Alexas and the few Siris out there that have had their names hijacked my a couple of the biggest companies on the planet.
Re: Username cannot contain 'clyde'
#10Does the bot use every possible permutation of "Clyde"? It must be every Clyde that can ever exist?