[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Permalinks break when user changes their display name (#482)

Matt Amos notifications at github.com
Fri Dec 8 00:37:28 UTC 2017


> I see a bit of a problem with the scheme that it potentially permanently leaks the uid - displayname relationship to the outside.

This seems like it would pose problems for other sites with public profiles, such as [Github](https://api.github.com/users/zerebubuth) or Twitter (sadly no public API, but the user ID is clearly visible in the `data-user-id` properties on various HTML element). What is the problem with linking the UID and display name?

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