Users of popular messaging platform Discord will need to change their usernames over the next few weeks, as the site overhauls the system for the first time in its eight-year history. The service, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The social app Discord, a favorite of gamers, inadvertently stirred internal strife after announcing last week that it will force its millions of members to pick new usernames.

Popular chat and streaming app Discord is making every single one of its users change their names, and you could be forgiven for wondering why make such a disruptive move at all. But the platform's ...