Github is forcing me to change my username, and will not tell me why

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Even if English is not someone's native language, it's worthwhile to be aware that "to ask abc to do xyz" is most of the time an euphemistic synonym for "to tell abc they must do xyz" (or even "to order abc to do xyz").

I'm gonna start trying to make my name index.html whenever I register on any website.

Sure, but it doesn't denote an obligation.
If I were OP, I would just ignore them.

wat

It's not out of nowhere, they are giving him a warning

Yeah it has the exact same cancerous social media shit.
Super important displayed everywhere. Only thing is who cares. Manipulated social media drones that's who. It's for "driving engagement", cancer that some moron read about.
Pointless low information crap.
Does the software even work? No way to find that out.
A site for software has no way to determine if the software even works. Just think about that. A simple out of 5 score would tell you that. A comment section would tell you that. A retarded downboat would tell you that.
User page is even more blatant with a giant grid where green = good goy points for each day. You see this same crap on pajeet programming puzzle sites where they are trying to get you to work for free. hmm I wonder.

Just compare to how it was on nearly all download sites
Simple popularity.
Is it shit or good?
With those two pieces of information I can figure out a huge amount of stuff. Controversial but popular projects, junkware, better forks, diamond in the rough, popular libraries that have less reviews because people don't think about them, etc.

It's their site. Your registration there is a privilege. It can be taken away at any time for any reason. I haven't even read their terms and conditions and I'm willing to bet there's a clause there that says they can discontinue service without warning for any reason, including no reason.

Github is being exceedingly generous with its emails:


OP should take up this offer before their patience runs out.

Also, the domains that IANA won't allow you to register are documented here:

iana.org/domains/reserved

The OP is going to get steamrolled legally and there's nothing he will do about it. GitHub can delete his account and there's nothing he can do about it. They are a mega-billion dollar company and they can do whatever they want. Who the fuck are you to question their gorillions of dollars? They could execute you if they wanted.