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Or JIRA, which is particularly inexcusable.

My username at a large org is my first name. In any situation where someone wants to link to me or mention me, typing my username brings up a list of every person at the org with my name, alphabetically. My last name inevitably sorts me down toward the bottom.

You would think that an exact literal username match would have priority, but no. Typing any prefix of my name similarly sorts everyone else before me too.



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