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		Aspos 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) How about zipping the state string or, even better, putting it into a KV storage thus exchanging it for a 10-char string.

taejavu 3 months ago [–]

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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