[sschueller]

Seems like a stupid move from github not to prefix usernames from the beginning or at least start doing it later like linkedin did.

It is very possible that one day there will be another URL they need which belongs to a large account that can not be renamed just like that.

[bentruyman]

Seems like a stupid move? This is a pretty common pattern and we rarely ever hear of stories like this.

[thekaleb]

I do like the medium.com approach of the usernames as /@username similar to the apache user dirs /~username

[aylmao]

They can always prefix their page urls instead, especially if it's not something too important.

[hartator]

I don't think I'll follow Linkedin lead on software design.