Username cannot contain 'clyde'

The key point here that was hard to find is that they and others had a username containing Clyde set already, and now can&#x27;t update anything else about their profile because their username has come to be considered invalid.<p>That&#x27;s pretty poor judgement to not even communicate this to affected users

This is a good case for why system bots&#x2F;messages&#x2F;etc. shouldn&#x27;t be given regular names (and perhaps distinguished through other means too); if the error was instead &quot;Username cannot contain &#x27;discord&#x27;&quot;, it&#x27;d be more obvious.

&quot;Clyde is the name used for a fake bot in the client. It responds to specific Built-In slash commands (&#x2F;timeout, &#x2F;ban, &#x2F;kick and &#x2F;nick), and sends private messages with information or errors&quot;. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Clyde" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Clyde</a>

Why is an internal system in the same namespace as users?<p>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.

It&#x27;s really embarrassing if does actually allow visually indistinguishable variations like &#x27;CIyde&#x27; or &#x27;Clydе&#x27;. Impacting real users, while having zero effect on malicious actors

Reminds me of a fun bug at RockstarGames&#x27;s SocialClub<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;tezfunz2&#x2F;status&#x2F;1565159942964891649" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;tezfunz2&#x2F;status&#x2F;1565159942964891649</a>

This happens because Discord has a system bot also named Clyde that mostly tells users when their messages fail to send (among other system messages).

It feels like a UX faux pas to pick common names for stuff like this.<p>I’ve got to imagine that some people named Alexa find it unfortunate and invasive that suddenly their name is used everywhere. At least “Siri” and “Hey Google” are less popular names for people.

On Swissair website there was a time where I couldn&#x27;t purchase tickets because my name contains the name of a musical instrument. So out there there are people that did worse than that in my personal experience :(

You can’t create a Gmail account containing the words support, gmail, google, and several other variations

So you think it&#x27;s bad? How about this: I just wanted to create an account there finally and it was suspended without me even entering it once, I also had to pass about 5 captchas to be able to sign-up, no VPNs, clear home IP Some shit-show is going on there right now, dunno

Why don&#x27;t bots have some other distinction? Like a blue tick or &lt;blink&gt; or some screenreader function?<p>Why do their messages have to appear the same as humans?<p>If bots should all operate in a distinctive space, give it that space.<p>Mind you architectural foresight is hard so maybe they&#x27;ll get there.

Contact forms for US Senators and Representatives often have surprising issues like this.<p>Reserved words in SQL sometimes get blocked as well as things like too many singles quotes or an odd number of single quotes. I&#x27;ve seen the name &quot;Walter&quot; blocked on many forms over the years.<p>The worst part is that the sender just gets sent to a security or generic page with no idea why, often losing the message they created.

Change your name to “Sue” instead:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crzysdrs.net&#x2F;dv&#x2F;victim&#x2F;223-its-a-damn-shame-what-they-did-to-that-fourth-pacman-ghost&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crzysdrs.net&#x2F;dv&#x2F;victim&#x2F;223-its-a-damn-shame-what-the...</a>

This just reminds me of the birthday cake for Clint.<p>Poor Clint.<p>&quot;Name on cake must not be Clint&quot;

This feels very adjacent to the Scunthorpe problem, except that the blocking is intentional here:<p>&gt; The Scunthorpe problem is unintentional blocking [...] because [...] text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an [...] unacceptable meaning. Names, abbreviations, and technical terms are most often cited as being affected by the issue.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Scunthorpe_problem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Scunthorpe_problem</a>

This is sadly typical of Discord, who treat every problem as a nail even when offered a detailed explanation.

I don&#x27;t have account on stackoverflow or reddit because their authentication system is broken to me.

Does the bot use every possible permutation of &quot;Clyde&quot;? It must be every Clyde that can ever exist?

Another bad case of co-opting a common word in tech - here with more than just annoying results.