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Not too short or it's too easy to guess.

The app might be stateless right now (I haven't checked); if it is, adding a URL shortener will break that.

How about zipping the state string or, even better, putting it into a KV storage thus exchanging it for a 10-char string.

Correct me if I'm wrong but zipping it would mean it would be encoded in a way that wouldn't be usable as a URL. The state is currently compressed and URL encoded via lz-string fwiw/in case you're curious.

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