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Thanks @amosbastian, would like to get confirmation of this from someone at Utopian. This seems like an odd way to go about this since as i mentioned they should already know if you have access to a particular github account if you connect it with their site.

Yes true @yabapmatt. For github specifically this is more a fast patch until we can implement a way to recognise the user on the frontend directly, while fro crowdin is harder since there is no crowdin connect.

That seems like a pain - if I contribute to some random open source project will I have to ask them to add my steemit username to their readme? I can't imagine too many maintainers would be ok with that