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I've actually had a (great) username completely blackholed by github. I'm still a bit salty about it. I had received an email several years ago informing me th
by jperras 3y ago
I've actually had a (great) username completely blackholed by github. I'm still a bit salty about it.
I had received an email several years ago informing me that it was going to be removed. They gave me the equivalent to a coupon for a free year of the github personal plan as compensation.
To this day it'll tell you that the username is "unavailable" if you try to sign up with it, and the page just 404s.
- asylteltine 3y agoAnd it’s called?
- charcircuit 3y agomalware is probably the best known case of this Today the profile just 404s https://github.com/malware https://github.com/malware edit: yep this is his account
- SeenNotHeard 3y agoAnd Mike Alware is still salty about it.
- emmelaich 3y agoMore likely Malcolm Ware?
- bigbillheck 3y agoWhat was the username?
- jperras 3y agoAs charcircuit figured out, the username is/was `malware`. They deactivated it in 2018 without any explanation, and even my contacts at Github at the time couldn't quite figure out why it was happening. My only thought was that it was during the MSFT acquisition due diligence, and my username was an unfortunate victim of whatever compliance requirements they had to satisfy.
- pests 3y agoHonestly the url does not look good. I can see why they wouldn't want it showing up in logs or across the internet. Maybe it was getting hit by virus scanners or other Internet filtering as well.
- paxcoder 3y ago[dead]