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You can edit the issue to be whatever you want later. But I’ve never seen anyone pre-reserve issue numbers like this.

We've actually done that for a few years on the Terminal repo. It's great for things like megathreads / scenarios / epics. For example, I can tell you off the top of my head that microsoft/terminal#8888 is for "quake mode", and #4000 is the extensions thread.

We even used to have a bot that would auto-camp anything that was a multiple of 1000 or 1111 :D

That's a rather fun hack for issue numbers. Of course, a more robust strategy would be to have a specialised short-link generator for special issues!

As they work at Microsoft, they all have aka.ms and can generate any short link they like.

But it won't work if another user talks about issue 1234, and you only have the short links in your head.

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