Technically the first account has a space as the first character but this gets trimmed out sometimes when roblox displays it
http://api.roblox.com/users/get-by-username?username=bren609 only returns the second one
Please fix
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http://api.roblox.com/users/get-by-username?username=%20bren609
It’s only going to return the second one because they are in fact different, but the API still works for either.
Yeah, this is caused because usernames used to be able to have spaces in them, so it may look the same, but technically isn’t.
Why?
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ID 2758 has a space in front of his username. That ability existed for a brief amount of time before it was shut off. If I know my ROBLOX lore it’s because people were using it to get admin access on the forums, where username was trimmed. The space just doesn’t show up on web pages.
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I guess what I mean is why does it matter now? The other user, 15739570, hasn’t been active since account creation in 2011, and doesn’t have a recovery email.
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The issue came about on InceptionTime’s (unofficial) roblox discord server, user couldn’t verify his account because of the conflicting usernames. I guess it doesn’t really pose any issues in roblox itself other than confusing the hell out of people, but still it doesn’t seem like it should be expected behavior for two users to have such similar names when usernames should be unique and it’s common practice to trim whitespace.
Tbh, when I write any kind of admin commands, I never account for usernames with spaces.
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