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by brendanib 4514 days ago
Totally understandable - we don't want to exclude you based on the number of characters in your desired username. We just don't have a good set of all the words we need to reserve upfront - what we really want to avoid is ever forcing someone to change their username because of a conflict like this.

We'll see what we can do to allow shorter usernames without ending up in this situation. Thanks for the feedback.