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I've never seen a single character github username. I thought there was always a minimum number of characters!
by greazy 11mo ago
I've never seen a single character github username. I thought there was always a minimum number of characters!
- fka 11mo agoI've created my account ~16 years ago :)
- JoshTriplett 11mo agoDo you get a lot of misdirected notifications from people who write the wrong `@`?
- fka 11mo agoit's like, every day ;_;
- gerdesj 11mo agoI used to have a rather short, pithy gmail address back in the day. I binned it for gerdesj@ instead - a username which I use nearly everywhere. A one char ID on a web app is all very well but is the extra hassle worth it?
- fka 11mo agoNope, just seems cool.
- AmbroseBierce 11mo agoYeah, same rationale that Elon shared for renaming Twitter to X, so for good or evil you have that trillionaire mindset pinned down.
- jdhendrickson 11mo agoBit of a leap.
- fka 11mo agoMy username was f before Elon made Twitter X.
- andix 11mo agoI know another single char user, and couldn't believe it either. I think possible options are a-z and 0-9, so only 36 people in the world got that lucky.
- OisinMoran 11mo agoIt's funny, on mobile the ellipsis Github uses to truncate the username in the path actually takes up more space than if they just showed the "f"