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Comment by bogwog

gitlab profile URLs are `gitlab.com/<username>`, so a user with the name "dashboard.html" would have the URL `gitlab.com/dashboard.html`, which obviously conflicts with the existing dashboard.html file.

Besides blacklisting certain usernames or breaking a bunch links to profiles, how would you fix that?

EDIT: IIRC, github has the same issue, but they have profiles as lower priority. So if your username conflicts with an existing URL, your profile page doesn't work.

parent bogwog 5 years ago

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