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 ?
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