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by alt227 530 days ago
Agreed. I cant see why anyone thinks this was worth spending time on rather than just using the standards which everybody else does.

Nobody types out api keys so there is no need to make them friendly to say or remember. After you have copied and pasted them once into your db, you are never going to seee or use that string again!

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Totally worth spending a single day at some hackathon or slack time event... but not more. And it looks like a lot more.
Does it? We once discussed making our ids (UUIDs) prettier, came to the same conclusion of using some base64 variant in 5 minutes, and came across base32 10 minutes later, and the final implementation is pretty trivial.

This is a 1 day job at most to get something polished (assuming there’s no migration/retrocompatibility constraints)