[ansel] gallery ID

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Ben Chavet <ben at chavet.net>:

> I noticed that a while back, the gallery ID was moved from an MD5 hash to a
> user-defined value.  I was creating a handful of galleries so I could work on
> the gallery list & realized that I don't really like that feature.  If some
> other user is already using the ID, it doesn't let me create the gallery.
> I'd rather just specify the gallery name & description, then let the system
> take care of the unique ID.
>
> Is there any reason that we moved from the MD5?

Because MD5s are 32 ugly, weird, unrememberable characters that show up in the
URL. Also, using subgalleries, you can create your own namespace for yourself.

-chuck

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