an indie studio has had its own discord name stolen out from under them and has now issued a warning to other indie developers to beware a warning for all the indie devs waiting to claim their own username studio rusty lake writes on twitter we just received an email that we as verified owners could finally submit a new username and wow rustylake is already taken if we as a server owner with 240k members cant even claim ita warning for all the indiedevs waiting to claim their own username discordwe just received an email that we as verified owners could finally submit a new username and wow rustylake is already taken if we as a server owner with 240k members cant even claim it may 19 2023see morethe issue arose a month after discord announced changes to the way it handles usernames previously usernames were casesensitive and had a fournumber identifier attached to the end of them discord is now removing those numbers and letting users choose new usernames but theyve been rolling out the changes gradually that means some discord users are being allowed to secure new usernames before others and a few have already claimed the names of studios such as rusty lake now we have a risk of impersonation and extra legal costs to file a possible trademark infringement says rusty lake in any case discord support was helpful enough to respond with an automatic response email to this issue and the followup is directing us to another helpdesk the studio ended its note with really wondering how they are rolling out this new feature if a random user can squat on established server brand names rusty lake is the team behind several hit indies over the last few years the studio primarily releases macabre pointandclick puzzle games with classic handdrawn art styles they even have a trilogy based on their own name with rusty lake roots hotel and paradise discord has been in hot water recently with another update that implemented ai features onto the platform needless to say it didnt go down well with many players