![]() | A fact from Snowflake ID appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 February 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
edit- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 05:46, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
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- ... that Twitter and Discord use snowflakes as unique identifiers for their messages and users? Source: API Reference, Discord Developer Portal
- ALT1:
... that Twitter's switch to snowflakes in 2010 required app developers to update their code?Source: Twitter's Snowflake Project To Update Tweet IDs Really Is More Like A Blizzard Now
- ALT1:
- Reviewed: Yaoi
- Comment: Can provide more hooks if necessary.
Created by Elliot321 (talk). Self-nominated at 04:31, 20 January 2021 (UTC).
- ALT0 //
ALT1⇒⇒ Oh neat, Elliot321, I just heard about these the other day for the first time! (Barely) long enough (1,524 characters), new enough (Jan 18), neutral, suitably cited, only copyvio ping appears to be from a site that scraped Wikipedia and not the other way around so all good there. ALT0 is short enough, reffed to and in refs 3 & 4. ALT1 is supported by ref 2 but not spelled out adequately in the article (article doesn't mention that developers had to change anything to implement snowflakes). Both hooks short enough; I definitely prefer ALT0 anyway as the more hooky and interesting of the two. QPQ done, no image. ALT0 good to go and preferred, ALT1 still needs work. Thank you! —Collint c 19:13, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for the review. I'm good with just using ALT0. Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 19:18, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
- Slick! G2g for ALT0! —Collint c 20:39, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
- ALT0 //
Graphic issues
editThe graphic showing "Components of a snowflake identifier in binary" differs from its source (where sequence and worker ID are swapped, and more annotations exist), and also does not actually show components in binary, given the fact each box seems to represent 2 bits. --2.204.112.236 (talk) 10:20, 21 February 2022 (UTC)