For human readability, I've always prefered encoding UUIDs in base 64 and swapping a couple characters. If I'm going to have some ugly identifier in a URL, I mi

For human readability, I've always prefered encoding UUIDs in base 64 and swapping a couple characters. If I'm going to have some ugly identifier in a URL, I might as well make it more concise. I think youtube does something similar with their video IDs.