jeffalo @jeffalo

>former twitter employees create a site literally called twitter2

>incremental user ids

Jun 22, 2023, 7:36 PM
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it leaks user count, it leaks who joined before/after you and most importantly it is super easy to scrape

how do i fix that? every program with a user i have ever written uses incremental (and twitter’s post does that i think)

also, i would have a user count endpoint anyway

i understand why the second thing is bad although it could become meta

i definitely understand why the last is bad so that’s why i’m asking how to fix it (though that’s how we got all the scratch projects so there are some positives)