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8organicbits on Nov 26, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sqids – Generate short unique IDs from numbers

I think your right, but that violates the uniqueness guarantee. It doesnt seem like something that should change over time by default.

dumbo-octopus on Nov 26, 2023 [–]

There explicitly is no uniqueness guarantee. It is known that the same values can encode into many different strings, and they recommend always decoding then reencoding with a stable algorithm to achieve a "canonical" id if one is needed.

https://sqids.org/faq#valid-ids

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