Sorting by "Least recently joined" is interesting. The GitHub team are all there, naturally, but I'm intrigued what "tater" is about. Yehuda Katz is famously user ID 4 but tater shows up as user 611789 through the API.<p>Other than that, the first 10 pages or so are a real who's who of the Ruby scene in 2007-2008 :-)
So how does this work? From the search its cheat sheet:<p>"@defunkt Get all repositories from the user defunkt."<p>Seeing as there _is_ a user called "a: (<a href="http://github.com/a" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/a</a>) but he doesn't have a single line of code, no repositories and no active issues either; the search breaks somehow and returns the repository, issue and code (LOC?) count of ALL people.<p>For example trying it with "@b" (or any existing user after the at-sign) does yield the correct results (the respective counts for user b: <a href="http://github.com/b" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/b</a>). Trying it with someone with no repositories, code and issues OR a user which does not exist (@thisuserdoesnotexist) results in the same behavior.
Wow. Its good to see Linus takes the occasional day off : <a href="https://github.com/torvalds" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/torvalds</a>
This seems to be valid compared to numbers released in April 2013 [1]. GitHub is growing fast.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/blog/1470-five-years" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/blog/1470-five-years</a>
This query is incorrect, because it doesn't include private repos and forks. The headlines on this page <a href="https://github.com/search" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/search</a> are accurate. As of this comment.<p>Search more than 4.3M Users<p>Search more than 8.8M Repositories<p>Search more than 18.7M Issues
BTW <a href="https://github.com/search?q=%40y&type=Users&ref=searchresults" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/search?q=%40y&type=Users&ref=searchresult...</a> i.e. '@y' also gives similar results :)