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My ID is #2,715,751 and I still somehow have a 5-letter username

• stavros 3y ago
  Mine is 23000ish and I still couldn't get "Stavros" (a friend got it first). EDIT: Wait, how? His ID is 500k or so. Hmm.
  • djbusby 3y ago
    Name recycle. For a while I had a username monitoring tool. Names drop, just like domains.
    • stavros 3y ago
      Hmm, I'll need to make sure that GitHub's Stavros... retires, then.
      • bityard 3y ago
        It will be an accident, that much is certain.
• layer8 3y ago
  Same for #7,xxx,xxx. The space grows exponentially with the number of letters though.
• moojd 3y ago
  4 letters at #8,016,155: https://api.github.com/users/jmoo https://api.github.com/users/jmoo
  • smcl 3y ago
    I 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.