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Ask HN: Do hyphens in Github usernames look unprofessional?
I've been an on/off user of Github for a few months but am soon going to use it much more.
My username currently has an hyphen in it. Should I change it?
- samirahmed 15y agojulien-c vs julienc the latter is harder to read. So I would argue that the hyphen provides clarity.
- burgerbrain 15y agoI find it hard to believe that anybody is going to form an opinion on this, even unconscious, unless directly asked about it.
- julien_c 15y agoWell, hyphens in domain names do look a little bit "cheap", don't they?
- burgerbrain 15y agoI've never given it any thought to be honest. Now, numbers certainly do seem cheap, but people seem to ignore that enough that I suspect that maybe I'm in a minority that thinks so. On the other hand, numbers seem perfectly fine in unix usernames...