[tcmb]

I like the idea, but they should have called it something else instead of ‚usename‘. Maybe ‚connection string‘ or ‚discovery phrase‘. Right now they have to explain at length in what ways it’s different from regular usernames.

[nsxwolf]

Is ,comma-backtick` some personal quirk of yours, or is it some standard I'm not aware of?

[loeber]

European quotation marks commonly have the left one down low and the right one up high. The same applies for single quotes. But using comma-backtick is deeply unorthodox.

[lock-the-spock]

To give a definite answer to the discussion below - it seems Czech, Slovak, German, Slovenian and Croatian sometimes use this format. Here an authoritative source: the EU publications office:

https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-...

[tcmb]

It‘s what my phone made out of two presses of the same (single quote) button.

[stavros]

It's ‚comma-apostrophe‘, actually.

[m12k]

"friendcode" seems to be pretty standard in multiplayer video games

[b1n]

Maybe "contactcode" would be better in this situation, as it doesn't imply any specific relationship between participants.

[samstave]

HellDivers 2 LFG rn is all about sharing Friendcodes... you can get a ton of them on discord or reddit... but then you end up haveing a "friendcode" cybermentally-distributed DNS system for them over time.

Six degrees will still exist.

(funny weird thing is that with HD2's server issues due too demand, one way to harvest this would be to create a fake LFG host game and have tons and tons of accounts bang against your HellDiver-Pot - and get whatever you can scrape from that?

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OK - I actually went down this hole the other daty... you look at the reddit thread on helldrivers for LFG - or the discord...

So on reddit, you just put .json at end of thread - DL the entire thread as json, now you have reddit id, location, play style, etc, details AND their friendcode on HD2... but since they can individually generate random friend codes on any game/system that allows such... you have a breadcrump (with enough attention span to just correlate all the shared info between these friend codes and data received...

still - even with random friend codes - six degrees is still available, easily.??

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I deeply hope they do a Tech Talk on the post-mortem of this lauch success spiral - its fascinating....

But one thing I am really interested in, this is based on the Autodesk Engine, I know they co-dev-dog-fooded, but I hadnt really known of this engine at all... what little I do know, is that - its amazing...

But I'd really like to know more about the arch and overall traffic flows etc of this game.

Its beautiful see "problems" like this explode in like ~2 weeks.

What do internet traffic graphs look like since growth, per carrier?

[duxup]

Yeah that seems to be the standard and very descriptive.

[weikju]

Not everyone I connect to on signal is a friend. same for e.g. journalists or government people who use Signal.

[pests]

Why not "invite code" like Discord does it? This is literally the same thing.

Its a code, inviting other people to speak to you.

[denton-scratch]

> they have to explain at length

My reaction to the article was that they're using a lot of words to explain this change. That suggested to me that maybe they aren't being completely candid.

I've never used Signal, because (a) I don't want to rely on a smartphone, and (b) I don't want to use my phone-number as my ID, because it's traceable. I can't work out from the TFA verbiage whether this change addresses my concerns or not. That in itself is concerning, to me.

[Tmpod]

Regarding (a), apart from the inicial account setup, you can actually use the desktop client fully standalone.

Regarding (b), yeah that's still a bummer, though, depending on your country of residence, you can get throwaway SIM cards for free and use that.

[WolfeReader]

"Connection string" already means something else. I'm partial to "Identifier", myself.

[msm_]

But identifier already means something else (i'm used to identifiers being unique, constant, and useful for actually identifying someone).

[WhyNotHugo]

Indeed. And apparently you'll still log in with your phone number (not the username).

[crossroadsguy]

They also missed the opportunity, like many times they have done over the years, to actually make it something rather like 'Hide My Number' in true sense, after spending years sitting on this feature. That would have been the true case of "caring for privacy". This is just a lazy (too lazy!) copy from Telegram (however, with one good thing -- getting rid of username vanity)

[folmar]

There is old-now-unused "nickname".

[jamwil]

I like “handle”. It’s short and conveys some mutability.