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Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack by momothereal on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:11PM (#24983461)
I wrote a quick script through Github's API, and found 10 users[1] matching the criteria:

* starred any screeps repo before May 2017, and no other screeps repo since then

* no public contributions or events since April 2017

If someone has some time to do further filtering, ensure the users have not starred any GitHub repo since May 2017

I didn't go through forks but that would also be an avenue.

[1] https://gist.github.com/aramperes/2363dc3434de6b494b28b5a658...

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Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack by Copenjin on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:43PM (#24983756)
This guy with his Screeps-Main repo is interesting, he also removed a txt file with some description of what he wanted to do: https://github.com/NihilRex/Screeps-Main/commit/e2c34e211226...

The last things he did were in 2017.

Edit: Nope, same user is on the forum, https://screeps.com/forum/user/nihilrex

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Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack by momothereal on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:46PM (#24983784)
As someone else pointed out, it seems this user was recently active on Screeps forums, so ruled out.
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Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack by mynegation on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:48PM (#24983810)
You can exclude bandsaw1961 based on user pic and yacobjardon who was a student at Carleton University and a picture on his LinkedIn and career beyond 2017.
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Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack by strstr on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:42PM (#24983747)
A few of the users have the same in game username, and have been online recently.
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Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack by withinboredom on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:49PM (#24984949)
I don't really trust the steam online thing. I once got a notification that my brother was playing a game and he was driving a car and his computer was off. No, his account wasn't hacked. We spent awhile and noticed that it seems to randomly say your online and playing if you disconnect for awhile (my account too).
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