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User names don't have to be unique (and platforms that require uniqueness tend to frustrate people who end up being Mike792 or whatever), so we need the numbers. Given that we need to include the ...
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#1: Initial revision
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Monica Cellio
·
2023-07-10T03:22:25Z (over 1 year ago)
User names don't have to be unique (and platforms that require uniqueness tend to frustrate people who end up being Mike792 or whatever), so we need the numbers. Given that we need to include the number, we went for the shortest URL that uniquely identifies the user. Would it help if we added the name to the end, such as `users/64176/da5nsy`?