Your username should pass the "search engine" test as well
That is, calling yourself a too short or generic name might have been a brag 20 years ago, but now it's just an annoyance
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#12Tagged a coworker when making a git commit message just for traceability. I didn't even know until he said something.
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#13I try to register @null wherever I go. Most places don't allow it, and the one place that did force changed the name at one point.
What did they change it to?
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#15I've got a three letter twitter (/x?) handle it happens all the time. It's not quite annoying enough to change my username though.
I have my HN username at gmail, and the novelty... wears off. So many recipts, confirmations, random bccs... Where it gets really ugly is gmail's (incredibly dumb, imo) feature where dots don't matter. I've had mulitple people get quite insistent that they own the email tyler.e gmail, which of course routes to...
Yep, I have an incredibly common firstname@gmail.com email address and I get hundreds of emails daily with random bills, reservations, bank statements and so on.
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#16Who's going to post the link to the Bobby Tables xkcd?
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#17I used to have an email similar to ps@qs.com, and would get a fair amount of email suggesting people would use that as their made up email. In a similar vein I’d like to apologise to knobs@bobs.com for the amount of captive portal spam you receive on my behalf
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#18Your username should pass the "search engine" test as well That is, calling yourself a too short or generic name might have been a brag 20 years ago, but now it's just an annoyance
Failing the search engine test is a feature, not a bug.
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#19I got tagged by accident like this once, and it took me ages to figure out why I was getting emailed about an obscure issue on something I'd never heard of. I think the UX for both parties could be improved quite a bit.
GitHub does say the reason why you’re being notified, both via email and in the Notifications page. In your case it should say “mention”
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#20Who's going to post the link to the Bobby Tables xkcd?
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/327/