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Wow, I'm impressed, Github. You also fixed the problem for users whose user names are numbers#. Two birds, one stone!

# Originally, gist.github.com/abc was the gist page for a user, and gist.github.com/123 was a gist URL. Numeric users were brought to unrelated gists of that ID.

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So, now anyone can register a pure numeric user (e.g. 30) of an old gist to block https://gist.github.com/30 from redirecting?

yep: https://gist.github.com/2927038 used to redirect here: https://gist.github.com/doubleotoo/2927038 (in Google results)

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