use hashid vs uuid for pirep fields

app/Models/Traits/Uuids.php

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 namespace App\Models\Traits;
 
-use Webpatser\Uuid\Uuid;
+use Hashids\Hashids;
+
 
 trait Uuids
 {
@@ -12,10 +13,12 @@ trait Uuids
 
         static::creating(function ($model) {
             $key = $model->getKeyName();
+
             if (empty($model->{$key})) {
-                $model->{$key} = Uuid::generate()->string;
+                $hashids = new Hashids('', 8);
+                $id = $hashids->encode((int)microtime(true));
+                $model->{$key} = $id;
             }
-            #$model->{$model->getKeyName()} = Uuid::generate()->string;
         });
     }
 }

composer.json

@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@
         "spatie/laravel-fractal": "4.2.*",
         "composer/semver": "^1.4",
         "dg/rss-php": "^1.2",
-        "makinacorpus/php-bloom": "dev-master"
+        "makinacorpus/php-bloom": "dev-master",
+        "hashids/hashids": "2.0.*"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "fzaninotto/faker": "~1.4",

composer.lock

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#composer-lock-the-lock-file",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "content-hash": "181da7f1bb73299cdb05da4add9052dd",
+    "content-hash": "c432aeac72c0d98fb3fac64a5125b817",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "anlutro/l4-settings",
@@ -1097,6 +1097,69 @@
             ],
             "time": "2017-05-14T14:47:48+00:00"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "hashids/hashids",
+            "version": "2.0.3",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/ivanakimov/hashids.php.git",
+                "reference": "28889ed83cdc91f4a55637daff0fb5c799eb324e"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/ivanakimov/hashids.php/zipball/28889ed83cdc91f4a55637daff0fb5c799eb324e",
+                "reference": "28889ed83cdc91f4a55637daff0fb5c799eb324e",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "ext-bcmath": "*",
+                "php": "^5.6.4 || ^7.0"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "^5.6"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "extra": {
+                "branch-alias": {
+                    "dev-master": "2.1-dev"
+                }
+            },
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "Hashids\\": "src/"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Ivan Akimov",
+                    "email": "ivan@barreleye.com",
+                    "homepage": "https://twitter.com/IvanAkimov"
+                },
+                {
+                    "name": "Vincent Klaiber",
+                    "email": "hello@vinkla.com",
+                    "homepage": "https://vinkla.com"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Generate short, unique, non-sequential ids (like YouTube and Bitly) from numbers",
+            "homepage": "http://hashids.org/php",
+            "keywords": [
+                "bitly",
+                "decode",
+                "encode",
+                "hash",
+                "hashid",
+                "hashids",
+                "ids",
+                "obfuscate",
+                "youtube"
+            ],
+            "time": "2017-01-01T13:33:33+00:00"
+        },
         {
             "name": "igorw/get-in",
             "version": "v1.0.3",