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The UX of UUIDs
Why would readability of a UUID matter? At most, users should by copy-pasting them, not reading them or trying to memorize them, so why should I and l and 1 looking similar matter?
partdavid
on April 11, 2024
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Well, point one of the article is that they're unnecessarily hard to copy-paste.
spiderice
on April 12, 2024
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And the rest of the article talks about what GP is asking about
shhsshs
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The author mentions UUIDs are hard to copy/paste because of the hyphens.
IncreasePosts
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Right, and that is a fine idea to get rid of the hypens(personally, I just triple click) - I'm talking about the next section.
Terr_
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The easy fix is underscores.
esafak
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It could help when you're manually inspecting a list of UUIDs?
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