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by elcritch 2904 days ago
Alternatively a dev thinks gotta handle user name collisions: "try creating user... hmmm if exists append ‘1’ and repeat with 2..n+1, oh uhhh, better stop after, idk, 5 times (last time my test borked and filled up the database with username ‘(null)’ last time, sigh)". Programmer takes lunch.