“I created the room "Jobs" http://friendfeed.com/rooms/jo... When I try to edit the description, it doesn't work: "The nickname "jobs" is not available"”
June 4 at 8:00 am
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I was under the impression that you couldn't create a room using the same name as a user. For example, http://friendfeed.com/rooms/to... doesn't exist; it just redirects to my feed and doesn't allow me to create it either. Maybe this restriction was added after you created the "jobs" room nickname for which the "jobs" user already exists: http://friendfeed.com/jobs - Tony Ruscoe
Sounds plausible. Thanks! - Benedikt Koehler
Tony is correct. There is a single namespace to avoid confusion between users and rooms. - Bret Taylor
Will this remain like this "forever"? It makes names of (wider) interest less available and makes it possible for people to behave like things and snatch useful room names. For example: "opensocial" cannot be a room now, although it should be. - Nenad Nikolic
@Nenad I also think it would be better if it were optional to have a room with your username. - Benedikt Koehler
I hope FriendFeed will consider either separating user and room namespaces or at least offer an option for users to "lock" a room with their username. Furthermore, it's weird that a URL of a non-existing user does NOT get redirected to a room with the same name, while a URL of a non-existing room gets redirected to a user with the same name. Any comments from the officials? :-) - Nenad Nikolic