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Re:You'll regret using natural keys by kibwen on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @09:21AM (#40584467)
If you want random IDs to be human-readable (and human-communicatable), I'd just recommend base 32 or even base16. You don't actually save that many bytes from base58 or base64 when it comes to short IDs.

Case in point, the parent poster's base64 ID is 14 characters long. When encoded as base32 that's still only 17 characters (or 19 in base16), and now you have completely gotten rid of all notion of casing, which is annoying to communicate verbally.

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Re:You'll regret using natural keys by giancarlostoro on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @09:50AM (#40584752)
I think the more I think of it, the more I favor the Discord snowflake ID's because they're just integers, and they can be generated on the fly. I think new messages generated them on the client if I'm not mistaken.
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