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How did you even get that username? Short ones go so fast, you must have been in the first 1000 users!
by QuiDortDine 3y ago
How did you even get that username? Short ones go so fast, you must have been in the first 1000 users!
- labster 3y agoThere are 17576 three-letter combinations in the English alphabet.
- hawaiianbrah 3y agoNot to mention all the one- and two-letter combinations!
- hinkley 3y agoWell there’s about 1/26th as many of those.
- 6510 3y agoI have a file by each of those names inwhich each bit represents one article that either has the string or not (1 or 0) I'm sure someone wanted to know that.
- w-m 3y agoThere are some more three-character user names if you count dashes and digits, which are also allowed in GitHub usernames. Although I think the first one has to be a letter of the alphabet.
- jer0me 3y agoLooks like they were #23,570 (see the URL https://github.com/est.png https://github.com/est.png redirects to)
- plugin-baby 3y agoThat shows up as a picture of a worm for me. Edit: aha! The link forwards to https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/23570?v=4 https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/23570?v=4
- sakjur 3y agohttps://api.github.com/users/est https://api.github.com/users/est might be easier to read for getting the ID.
- lopis 3y agoMy ID is #2,715,751 and I still somehow have a 5-letter username
- stavros 3y agoMine is 23000ish and I still couldn't get "Stavros" (a friend got it first). EDIT: Wait, how? His ID is 500k or so. Hmm.
- layer8 3y agoSame for #7,xxx,xxx. The space grows exponentially with the number of letters though.
- moojd 3y ago4 letters at #8,016,155: https://api.github.com/users/jmoo https://api.github.com/users/jmoo
- smcl 3y agoI somehow ended up with #510,566 https://api.github.com/users/smcl https://api.github.com/users/smcl but I don't think I was a particularly early adopter. I joined two years after they started which is earlier than I realised. And apparently we're both relatively early adopters given that there's supposedly >100,000,000 users now.
- vq 3y agoSeems like I'm just slightly older (230381) with a two letter username.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- jonas-w 3y agohttps://api.github.com/users/est https://api.github.com/users/est They created their account at "2008-09-07T22:46:14Z"
- tzs 3y agoI got tzs and based on the tzs.png redirect URL trick from another comment I was number 322633.
- bityard 3y agoI have a two-letter github username and I wasn't even an early adopter. I only bothered creating an account when it was clear that Github was more than a fad and a few of the projects I contributed to moved there. I tried just my initials and it worked. Having a two-letter username is less exciting than simply a common word or name, though. Once in a while I get mentioned by accident in issues, or added to some organization. Twice I have had someone beg me to give it to them under the rationalization that it was "really cool" and I wasn't really "doing anything" with it... EDIT: I just looked up my ID and apparently none of the first half-million people to sign up for a github account tried to brute-force the small-username space. EDIT2: There are a few single-letter usernames with IDs in the millions, so I wonder if those are somehow "kept in reserve" by github admins and given out to friends or what's the story there.