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Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by TheHappyOddish »

Washuu wrote: post #142
baz00 wrote: post #80

Github has some very dangerous features when it comes to tagging and mentions. For example, when you add someone to an organisation, it autocompletes the username. We had someone with a fairly common name and accidentally added someone else to the org with a close but not identical name. Fortunately they didn't accept the invitation before we removed them again and added the correct person.

I had that happen to me before. I accepted the invitation, looked at their stuff, and then submitted an issue/PR to remove myself. They panicked, I laughed a bit.

Yep, I got added to someones internal company trello board oncr. I commented a few times asking to be removed, and when it didn't happen, I started adding suggestions to their product designs. I got removed fairly quickly.

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by kreeben »

acters wrote: post #145
mcv wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people do. Imagine the hilarity of all that paperwork!

Lol, imagine how confused people will be. They will think that there is a mistake somewhere when infact this guy rightfully owned the username username!

Johnny Two-Times called, he wants you to go get the paper get the paper.

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by OJFord »

acters wrote: post #140
iamthejuan wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mine was @username and GitHub just suddenly changed it to usernamex.

[flagged]

What is the claim? In the UK at least SCC requires that your claiming for some kind of (small) financial harm. What's that here?

Even if that's not the case in the USA (small civil claims against un-pursued crime?) it's still not clear to me what the issue is, or what 'right' they've violated. The judicial system isn't there for 'how displeased you are'.

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by jonas-w »

jer0me wrote: post #51
QuiDortDine wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you even get that username? Short ones go so fast, you must have been in the first 1000 users!

Looks like they were #23,570 (see the URL https://github.com/est.png redirects to)

https://api.github.com/users/est

They created their account at "2008-09-07T22:46:14Z"

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by 9dev »

baz00 wrote: post #80

Github has some very dangerous features when it comes to tagging and mentions. For example, when you add someone to an organisation, it autocompletes the username. We had someone with a fairly common name and accidentally added someone else to the org with a close but not identical name. Fortunately they didn't accept the invitation before we removed them again and added the correct person.

Right? This bugs me like hell. They make you jump through all kinds of hoops to attestate your source code and use layers upon layers of encryption, but make it the simplest thing to grant someone completely unrelated write access to all of your company’s code. Like what??

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by nic547 »

RheingoldRiver wrote: post #127
nic547 wrote: post #120

I've been quite embarrassed to discover that linking to a github issue in another repo will create a back link in the linked issue. Removing the link doesn't undo it either, you need to delete the issue completely. I wish I could turn this feature off.

If you really, really want to avoid it I'm pretty sure you could use a link shortener (bit.ly etc) behind markdown, and it would mask it (haven't tested) But please only do this for personal repos where you're the only contributor because otherwise this looks incredibly sus for anyone to click on

I think I stumbled on togithub.com, which simply does a 302 redirect to github.com, which keeps the url understandable and doesn't create the backlink. But I have no idea who actually runs the servers, so I instead went back to a text file.

It's only personal repos, that's why I don't want to create the irrelevant noise for lots of other people.

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by dzaima »

nic547 wrote: post #120

I've been quite embarrassed to discover that linking to a github issue in another repo will create a back link in the linked issue. Removing the link doesn't undo it either, you need to delete the issue completely. I wish I could turn this feature off.

"https://github.com./a/b" or "https://www.github.com/a/b" also work as "workarounds". But it is incredibly stupid & annoying that it doesn't even go away after editing it out or even deleting the comment that contained the link.
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