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Why not use the same system any web service in existence already uses - nicknames? Any text string is still easier to remember than an arbitrary number.
by theon144 15y ago
Why not use the same system any web service in existence already uses - nicknames? Any text string is still easier to remember than an arbitrary number.
- brk 15y agoI've been using the nick 'brk' for maybe 20 years, but I still frequently come across random places where it has already been taken. So, you'd need a nick registry, like domain names, and you'd run into issues with your friends that have "common" nicks having to register and use a different name. I think this merely trades one well-known set of limitations for a much different and less understood set of limitations without actually truly solving anything.