Not sure why your comment was flagged. I also somewhat regret using base58 UUIDs, but with sufficient DB and app-side helpers, and sufficient discipline to alwa

Not sure why your comment was flagged. I also somewhat regret using base58 UUIDs, but with sufficient DB and app-side helpers, and sufficient discipline to always convert at the edges, it became tolerable. It was the only option I could come up with to retrofit short IDs onto a system designed with UUIDs where a project owner decided our URLs needed to be shorter and prettier late in the development process.