[18:45] <soultcer> Have been watching the coding progress on github a bit and it's great to see that the project is full of new live
[18:45] <soultcer> *life
[18:45] <soultcer> Just wanted to make a suggestion for https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/terroroftinytown/issues/10
[18:47] <soultcer> What you are probably looking for is a maximum length sequences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_length_sequence
[18:49] <soultcer> Just FYI, for the old database I used something similar but a bit more simple, basically just taking the md5 hash of each previous shortcode: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/tinyback/blob/master/tinyback/generators.py#L43-77
[18:50] <soultcer> This obviously means that the same code will sometimes be hit twice, but this was intended. If a bad person somehow tried to return wrong results, sooner or later another user would hit the same shortcode at random and we would discover the wrong data
[18:53] <aaaaaaaaa> The problem with hashes is that it isn't guaranteed to hit all of them and may get stuck in a loop
[18:55] <aaaaaaaaa> But I'm not familiar with the MLS you suggested, hopefully the devs are.