[Feature request] option to use random characters instead of animal names about microbin HOT 4 CLOSED

Seems like a good option to have and @henry40408 I am happy with you creating a PR for this, including using that library if it makes the URLs significantly shorter. The name for the new arg could be --hash-ids just to match the pattern we have with the rest.

I think the following would be the simplest way to implement this, but feel free to be more creative:

1. create a second coverter hash_ids with hashids library with 2 functions to_u64 and to_hash in the same style as animalnumbers.rs
2. create a third converter (e.g. id_converter) that also has 2 functions and calls either animalnumbers or the second converter based on the presence of the --hash-ids arg
3. call this third converter everywhere where animalnumbers::to_u64 or animalnumbers::to_animal_names is called currently
4. profit

I don't see us adding more numbering schemes in the future but if we want emoji-based ID's or whatever, it should be fairly simple to add it following this pattern

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@szabodanika I have submitted a pull request. Please help review thanks.

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I can relate to this as well.
So +1

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hi @szabodanika I'd like to claim this issue and...

• Use hashids since we need to serialize primary key to animal names and vice versa
• Add a new option --hashids for user this feature and let animal names be the default

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