So, I am planning to upload my FurID identification image, But I don't have an artist tag + number yet, so can some admin create one ahead of schedule so my artist # matches my user #?
I'm talking about matching this:

https://e621.net/artists/THIS

with this:

https://e621.net/users/THIS

resulting in:

https://e621.net/artists/104363

being the number for my artist page
Tag: BananFisk_(artist)

Or do i just have to snipe it and hope my timing is right?
Thanks in advance

(sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place, at least the # is available at time of writing)

That is not possible, for several reasons
There's no point and it would cause numerous issues later down the line

Skipping numbers has happened with post #3000000, and it did cause issues

artist #104363
Yeah you're gonna have to snipe it

donovan_dmc said:
That is not possible, for several reasons
There's no point and it would cause numerous issues later down the line

Skipping numbers has happened with post #3000000, and it did cause issues

snpthecat said:
artist #104363
Yeah you're gonna have to snipe it

Dangit

At least there aren't land rush like when the posts are close to a million
And the current artist tag creation rate seems to be slow enough to catch up with

EDIT: is the artist tag # created on the first tagging, or when it's changed to an artist tag?

EDIT2:Also:

MD5:44ad 14e1 a4f2 e175 c8bf 32e3 eab4 207f

bananfisk said:
EDIT: is the artist tag # created on the first tagging, or when it's changed to an artist tag?

Neither, we are well in the millions with tag ids
Artists are separate and only created when someone creates them

bananfisk said:
At least there aren't land rush like when the posts are close to a million

It really wasn't even that difficult this time around, I snagged post #5000000 with very little competition
Between id:4999972..5000002 (the start and end of my uploads), I only missed 3 ids: id:4999981,4999988,4999992

donovan_dmc said:
That is not possible, for several reasons
There's no point and it would cause numerous issues later down the line

Skipping numbers has happened with post #3000000, and it did cause issues

snpthecat said:
artist #104363
Yeah you're gonna have to snipe it

_{None of these angry words are targeted at mentioned users, I can only be angry at ME}
FUCK

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK.

I WAS AWAKE FOR SEVERAL HOURS IN A ROW JUST TO GET IT

THEN I FALL ASLEEP AND DON'T GET IT

FUCK

I AM ONE OFF

artist #104364

I KEPT CHECKING THE USER LIST JUST TO GET THAT # FOR 1.5 MONTHS

AND THEN I FUCKING OVERSLEPT post #4523376

I'M GONNA PLAY SOME VIDEO GAMES, AND HURT THINGS THAT DON'T DESERVE IT

post #2084442

Just like me missing getting post #4000000 by 1 (post #4000001), it hurts so much more when you're so close

donovan_dmc said:
post #2084442

Just like me missing getting post #4000000 by 1 (post #4000001), it hurts so much more when you're so close

I won't forget how I was cheated out of post #3000000.
It doesn't matter anyway since the artist also nuked my post. 🫠

thegreatwolfgang said:
I won't forget how I was cheated out of post #3000000.
It doesn't matter anyway since the artist also nuked my post. 🫠

I'm half expecting post #5000000 to get nuked any day now