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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
Because of course they do. 
And this is real problem you've seen happen? The same ID number reused? More than once? |
Jumping in just to let you know that it is a real problem (though not a major one for me). Personally I've seen it happen about 3 times since I started using FFF to download SOL stuff.
Basically what I've determined is when an old story gets removed/deleted for any reason that old ID gets recycled back into service. Not sure how long it takes, but the last time I had it happen the story had only been gone for (at most) 3 weeks based on the download time (so not long). I spotted it because I got a duplicate story on a newly released story I was downloading.
For me it's not hard to track down. I keep an 'ID' column for StoryID's for reasons similar to this or to track down some story's I've had in the past that I had ID's for but no name or the name changed for some dumbass reason. Searching the URL ID is annoying and I can't remember how to do it without looking it up half the time. Just removed the old story URL to get the new one as I've done in the past. It hasn't really bothered me because I don't get a lot of SOL stuff, but it has happened.