4 ms·
Squatters absolutely do. Why do you think Discord and Blizzard provide numbers at the end of your username? It's to provide uniqueness. Basically every service
by t-writescode 4y ago
Squatters absolutely do. Why do you think Discord and Blizzard provide numbers at the end of your username? It's to provide uniqueness.
Basically every service that gets any traction on the internet whatsoever has a bunch of people running in and getting the tiny or interesting or unique usernames as fast as possible.
- m3drano 4y agoMany services like Gmail and Twitter to name just two prevent names to be shorter than X chars. Releasing usernames is bad for impersonation, so we are stuck.