Re:The first day of HN frontpage
by mprovost on Sunday February 06, 2022 @07:53AM
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Seeing all of those "first name" usernames (eric, matt, greg, justin, ...) reminds me of when my first email address at my university was "matt" because it was on a VAX and almost nobody had accounts. It would be interesting to measure the maturity (half-life?) of a site by the complexity of usernames as all the obvious ones are snatched up. I joined HN pretty early but unfortunately used my standard username instead of grabbing a short one.
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One of the sure-fire signals of a startup getting old and successful is when the IT department declares a standardized account name template for new hires like firstinitial.lastname(.optional_number). So far I’ve only worked at places where I could get [email protected], which says something about my preferences, I think.
Yep, and you could often tell who was a real old timer (or maybe who had institutional clout in the company) by who got to keep their [email protected] instead of being forced to change to the standard naming template, which could create a lot of problems with longstanding workflows (in my case it has always been ([email protected]).