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Comment by kylecarbs

7 days ago

It was inactive for a long time [1]. I emailed GitHub about it and they gave it to us!

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20201108093051/https://github.co...

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WXLCKNO  7 days ago

Wow.

For all the usernames I've ever tried getting (and failed cause they don't give out inactive usernames on most platforms), that's amazing.

  • gunalx  7 days ago

    In my opinion pretty terrible that github nilly willy can decide your org was inactive for too long and give it a new owner. (tbf i dont really know for how long and how inactive but still, this is potentially a security vulnerability with github)

    • siliconwitch  6 days ago

      Probably since no one has abused this mechanism yet. I’m sure if people start trying to vacuum up inactive accounts, it might become a problem