GitHub manage to do it. Most URLs you'd think of are either redirects to other bits of the site, or accounts owned by GitHub themselves. It just takes a bit of planning.

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nkrisc 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can plan every "top level" path you'll ever want on the site from now until forever? Or do you mean planning as in plan to force account name changes on users when someone's username conflicts with a new feature name?

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account42 an hour ago | parent [-]

You could probably get away with banning all common english words as usernames if you wanted to.

	▲	nkrisc 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Or put all user pages under some top level path and then you never need to ban anything as this problem becomes completely moot.

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deaux 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> It just takes a bit of planning.

Haha, no it just takes forcing user account name changes.

github.com/copilot, github.com/claude, github.com/models, basically everything you can think of for the last few years has been through this approach.

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stavros 2 hours ago | parent [-]

"Hey, remember the username you've had for twenty years? Yeah we want it now"

	▲	account42 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's what you get for being a tenant rather than owning your own site.