On: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on ...

[jer0me]

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

[jonas-w → jer0me]

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

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

[plugin-baby → jer0me]

That shows up as a picture of a worm for me.

Edit: aha! The link forwards to https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/23570?v=4

[sakjur → plugin-baby]

https://api.github.com/users/est might be easier to read for getting the ID.

[vq → jer0me]

Seems like I'm just slightly older (230381) with a two letter username.

[lopis → jer0me]

My ID is #2,715,751 and I still somehow have a 5-letter username

[layer8 → lopis]

Same for #7,xxx,xxx. The space grows exponentially with the number of letters though.

[moojd → lopis]

4 letters at #8,016,155: https://api.github.com/users/jmoo

[smcl → moojd]

I somehow ended up with #510,566 https://api.github.com/users/smcl but I don't think I was a particularly early adopter.

I joined two years after they started which is earlier than I realised. And apparently we're both relatively early adopters given that there's supposedly >100,000,000 users now.

[stavros → lopis]

Mine is 23000ish and I still couldn't get "Stavros" (a friend got it first).

EDIT: Wait, how? His ID is 500k or so. Hmm.

[djbusby → stavros]

Name recycle. For a while I had a username monitoring tool. Names drop, just like domains.

[stavros → djbusby]

Hmm, I'll need to make sure that GitHub's Stavros... retires, then.

[bityard → stavros]

It will be an accident, that much is certain.