mediagoblin.org says - "We're a GNU project in the making, afterall."

Links are getting long quick wnen our ID's are mongodb ObjectID's. e.g. http://omgmg.dyndns.org:6543/u/quietjenny/m/4e682b3f4cc6a55e4d0000dd/c/4e692f1f4cc6a55e4d000160/#comment

Comparison:

base 16: 4e682b3f4cc6a55e4d0000dd
base 58: 1RlMoQ3FCeZSiuJO
and just for perspective...
base 10: 24265763280740767849856893149
want more perspective?
base 2: 10011 10011 01000 00101 01100 11111 10100 11001 10001 10101 00101 01011 11001 00110 10000 00000 00000 00110 11101

It does not really make a huge difference in size. But it's still some.

Regular link: [http://omgmg.dyndns.org:6543/u/quietjenny/m/4e682b3f4cc6a55e4d0000dd/c/4e692f1f4cc6a55e4d000160/#comment](http://omgmg.dyndns.org:6543/u/quietjenny/m/4e682b3f4cc6a55e4d0000dd/c/4e692f1f4cc6a55e4d000160/#comment)
base58      : [http://omgmg.dyndns.org:6543/u/quietjenny/m/1RlMoQ3FCeZSiuJO/c/1RlbRFH6rhl3jdX36/#comment](http://omgmg.dyndns.org:6543/u/quietjenny/m/1RlMoQ3FCeZSiuJO/c/1RlbRFH6rhl3jdX36/#comment)

If anyone has any other suggestions on how to keep the ID's in the URLs as short as possible, this description of what a mongodb ObjectID consists of might be helpful.

Cheers

It should be changed so that comment URLs are

/u/{username}/m/{slug}/c/{comment_id}/#comment instead of
/u/{username}/m/{media_id}/c/{comment_id}/#comment