alt Hacker NewsGitHub manage to do it. Most URLs you'd think of are either redirects to other bits of the site, or accounts owned by GitHub themselves. It just takes a bit of planning.
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nkrisc • yesterday at 11:37 AM
You can plan every "top level" path you'll ever want on the site from now until forever? Or do you mean planning as in plan to force account name changes on users when someone's username conflicts with a new feature name?
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> It just takes a bit of planning.
Haha, no it just takes forcing user account name changes.
github.com/copilot, github.com/claude, github.com/models, basically everything you can think of for the last few years has been through this approach.