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        <leftmostcatUTC-7> "Ping here. As I sit with this..." <- I'm not entirely convinced that this new string ID would do anything that current fields (ID, label) do not already do. Granted, using only the ID is not human-readable, so there's that, but why not use the existing label?
      • IMO they are just as stable as the current identifier labels, which I don't think have been changed a single time.
      • Could you talk me through your reasoning?
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        <monkey[m]> "I'm not entirely convinced..." <- > <@monkey:chatbrainz.org> I'm not entirely convinced that this new string ID would do anything that current fields (ID, label) do not already do. Granted, using only the ID is not human-readable, so there's that, but why not use the existing label?... (full message at <https://matrix.chatbrainz.org/_matrix/media/v3/...>)
      • There's nothing about label as a column that says it will never change, basically, and there are reasons it could change. ISBN isn't a great example, but say at some point we decide "let's use U+2010 HYPHEN instead of U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS" and change it, we don't want code to break.