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Is it a good idea to allocate URLs such as quora.com/username to users?

22nd December 2010

My answer to Is it a good idea to allocate URLs such as quora.com/username to users? on Quora

There’s an interesting discussion about this issue on this question: How do sites prevent vanity URLs from colliding with future features ?

Posted 22nd December 2010 at 3:17 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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