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Especially since it forces you to basically map out your entire site before letting users register accounts. Or you rename users squatting your routes later on, which seems like a terrible idea.



Or, you take advantage of lists like this[0] and make sure users can’t pick names that would be “problematic”.

[0] https://zimbatm.github.io/hostnames-and-usernames-to-reserve...


Ah thanks, I was looking for that earlier and couldn't find it :)




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