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Well; for what ostensibly is a secretive, millenial "circle of artists and wizards"; that is an awfully non-cryptographic, weak hash function. Apparently (variants thereof) are commonly used in some JavaScript circles to mimic a popular implementation of Java's String.hashCode() method [1,2,3].

You expected something more esoteric? I think it's a matter of perspective. Sure, as a crypto challenge, it's weak. But if you think of it as our standard UI for configuring one's user icon...

The icon concept was a fascinating thing to see.

I don't think it's going to be a problem. Before anyone can post anything to merveill.es, they have to figure out how the heck anyone posts anything to merveill.es, which will take some lateral thinking.