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by YooLi 2162 days ago
I had my username (three letters, my initials) taken and replaced with initials + underscore + number (xxx_123). No comment from GH or even alert they were changing it. I guess someone with friends at GH decided they wanted it. What can you do...
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that's almost what the author did here, they found an "unused" github handle that they liked: "yg" and wrote to support to claim it. No need to have friends at GH.

https://dev.to/yg/how-i-got-two-letter-username-on-github-i1...