The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account

Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by MH15 on Thursday September 03, 2020 @12:38AM (#24360832)

My GitHub is four letters which is quite convenient. Recently a friend and I ran a script on the GitHub API to find the shortest available names and found that there are no three letter names and very few four letter names remaining.

Of course I got rate limited in this, as you can probably imagine given the factorial complexity of checking every name.

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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by eru on Thursday September 03, 2020 @01:35AM (#24361047)

> Of course I got rate limited in this, as you can probably imagine given the factorial complexity of checking every name.

I suspect it's only exponential. Or does more of unicode open up as you increase the length?

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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by Something1234 on Thursday September 03, 2020 @01:09AM (#24360954)

The question is if any of those short accounts actually have anything interesting as contributions or just name squatting.

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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by skeoh on Thursday September 03, 2020 @02:02AM (#24361152)

Anecdotally: I have a 2 character GitHub user (https://github.com/j-) and I like to think I do more than name squat. I missed out on the 1 character user (https://github.com/j) by only a matter of weeks!

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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by mosen on Thursday September 03, 2020 @01:12AM (#24360969)

I managed to snag a 3-letter one, so far it’s only really useful for manually adding origins...

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