<p>I am thinking of how many external services contain or generate links to our profiles, like HDYC. All these links will be broken by the change. Not to mention, the links won't look as nice.</p>
<p>As for linking uid and names, that is already done on many external services, starting with <a href="http://whosthat.osmz.ru/" rel="nofollow">whosthat</a>.</p>

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