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There are people who only have one name, so anything that relies on having two names is essentially broken.

You commonly see companies with user names that started as first character of first name + last name, and then you see later ones that don't follow the pattern when they realize they can't make it work.



> There are people who only have one name

My wife for one. At the very least make the last name field optional.




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