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I'd like to move over to Gitlab, but someone else has been sitting on my nick, "labster", for over two years with an empty group. I'm labster on HN, Github, IR
by labster 8y ago
I'd like to move over to Gitlab, but someone else has been sitting on my nick, "labster", for over two years with an empty group. I'm labster on HN, Github, IRC, forums, etc. but have no way of even contacting the other person to ask for the name. So for now, it looks like I'm stuck on Github.
- techntoke 8y agoNot a good reason.
- chrisseaton 8y agoThat other person has just as much right to that nick as you do.
- labster 8y agoI'm not debating rights here, I'm saying I don't know how to contact another user with zero activity on the platform.
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- chrisseaton 8y agoYou said they were sitting on ‘your’ name. It’s not yours any more than theirs, and it’s not sitting on it unless someone else rightfully owns it. And why would you ask them for it? It’s theirs - they got it first.
- labster 8y agoI remember when I used to go to thefacebook.com. Why did Zuck even ask for facebook.com? They got there first.
- brynjolf 8y agoIt is not a very good nickname anyhow
- adtac 8y agoYou can try talking to Gitlab support. I've found Github to release squatted usernames, so that might be the case with Gitlab too. Remember, however, all that their activity need not public. They could have a massive organisation with tons of active private repos. Still, doesn't hurt to ask.