With our recent surge in subscribers on YouTube, we have managed to break the 100 barrier. A small accomplishment, but a very welcome one. And one of the minor perks this brings is the option for a vanity URL for YouTube. I had been working around this limitation with a URL redirect (http://youtube.halfling13.com), which in turn pointed to the very challenging “true” url (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEaR1aYMgQE2UYsOU8coklQ).
However, with the new feature enabled, both of those are no longer needed (though remain active). You can now find the channel more easily at the new permanent URL: