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Same for #7,xxx,xxx. The space grows exponentially with the number of letters though.

4 letters at #8,016,155: https://api.github.com/users/jmoo

I somehow ended up with #510,566 https://api.github.com/users/smcl but I don't think I was a particularly early adopter.

I joined two years after they started which is earlier than I realised. And apparently we're both relatively early adopters given that there's supposedly >100,000,000 users now.

Mine is 23000ish and I still couldn't get "Stavros" (a friend got it first).

EDIT: Wait, how? His ID is 500k or so. Hmm.

Name recycle. For a while I had a username monitoring tool. Names drop, just like domains.

Hmm, I'll need to make sure that GitHub's Stavros... retires, then.

It will be an accident, that much is certain.