Slack have blocked using the website on mobile

Re:Slack have blocked using the website on mobile by echelon on Saturday December 28, 2019 @01:13PM (#21900562)

I got in too late to get my username (I have it almost everywhere else: github, gitlab, gmail, twitter, ...).

Assuming it goes dormant and unused (which it may not, but often does), do you have a policy for stale / unused username deletion or reclamation?

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Re:Slack have blocked using the website on mobile by Arathorn on Saturday December 28, 2019 @01:21PM (#21900617)

You can't reuse matrix IDs (yet), as they are the unique key for your message history - it's like email; if you reuse an email address you'll start getting email intended for the original user.

We're looking at fixing this in future via https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/rav/proposal/r....

Meanwhile, if you want echelon as a username, go register a domain name, run a matrix server on it, and you can have @echelon:echelon.xyz or wherever. Try not to get sued by five eyes though ;P

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