Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31863836-20190115223148/@comment-9605025-20190115235932

Someone else asked this and a number of similar questions a while ago; but I can't find the thread. Working under the assumption that user ids are assigned in order of registration, the first user would be Jasonr. However, this may not be a very good assumption as, from my observations, user ids tend to decrease when a user renames their account (either that or the old username is assigned a new id and the old id is transferred to the new username). Also, there are certain cases where a username may have its id stripped (meaning the actual first account might not be searchable). I have noticed this happen when users who have global permissions (ex. VSTF, staff) change usernames. My guess is it is done to help prevent hackers from gaining access to the old accounts.