Author Topic: BLID Rant  (Read 2478 times)

Then what would stop the 5 digits from considering themselves superior to the 6 digits?
Badspot could start with 8 digits all the way from the beginning, so we will never have to increase it.

Badspot could start with 8 digits all the way from the beginning, so we will never have to increase it.
Blockland will never ever reach ten million people, nor 99,999,999.

Blockland will never ever reach ten million people, nor 99,999,999.
Why not use ASCII characters instead of numbers? There's at least a hundred different values for a single space versus just ten with numbers. And the chance of having a snake as your ID

I have not seen a case of ID discrimination in like 3 years.

i do agree ids should be randomised (6 characters being 0-9 and A-Z)

Blockland will never ever reach ten million people, nor 99,999,999.
Yeah but even if there's a 1.0 x 10-15 chance of reaching 10 million, you still have to plan ahead.

Yeah but even if there's a 1.0 x 10-15 chance of reaching 10 million, you still have to plan ahead.
That is just stupid

Yeah but even if there's a 1.0 x 10-15 chance of reaching 10 million, you still have to plan ahead.
Oh wait! There's a 0.00001% chance that we'll reach 100 million! We've gotta plan ahead!

If you change the BLID system then you have to change basically every single addon ever made.

Your BLID should just be replaced with your key. No one will know if you're new or not!

Your BLID should just be replaced with your key. No one will know if you're new or not!
first 5 letters of your key is your BLID in base32.

Your BLID should just be replaced with your key. No one will know if you're new or not!
i know its sarcasm
but didn't someone make a tool that will give you your BLID from the first few letters in your key