peer short tags are too short

[whyrusleeping]

The shortened peer strings <QmWhyr> dont quite show enough of my peer ID's for me to tell which of the nodes im connected to. What do you think about skipping the first two letters (Qm) since theyre going to be the same across all peer IDs.

[techfreek]

I'd like to take this on, however, I haven't seen the shortened peer strings. could you give me an example of a command that lists shortened peer strings?

[jbenet]

What do you think about skipping the first two letters...

sgtm 👍

could you give me an example of a command that lists shortened peer strings?

this is mostly for logs and not exposed to users. though i think if you run ipfs dht query -v <hash> you'll see them. the relevant code is inside peer/ pkg somewhere.

[techfreek]

@jbenet || @whyrusleeping, if I skip the first 2 characters, should it remain 6 characters long? Or should I bump it to 8 or something like that?

[whyrusleeping]

If you skip the first two characters, keeping it at 6 characters seems fine to me.

[jbenet]

btw, i just remembered that Qm will only be the same for sha256 peerIDs. our use of the shortened peerid is mostly for debugging anyway, so this may be ok. we can always revert back and bump to 8 chars if we have reason to.