As I write this, new observations are being assigned numbers in the neighborhood of 99955000; at the current rate of uploads based on https://www.inaturalist.org/stats , the observation number should turn over 100m sometime today (Nov 1, 2021). The actual total number of observations as reported by t…

It is a bur marigold from a well established user from Ecuador!! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/100000000

Also at the current rate it is growing, I wonder how fast we will reach 200000000 I think it will be 2-3 years

@tiwane is the search mole your handiwork? [image]

It doesn’t go down. iNaturalist uses essentially the same URL generation system as BugGuide. Each new sighting gets the next number, and the URL assigned to a deleted sighting is permanently blank. iNaturalist currently has 95.599m sightings (of which 84.433m are verifiable and 11.166m are casual) o…

At the pace since no. 80m, it would take 810 days (2y 80d) to get to no. 200m. Since 90m, 880 days (2y 150d) Since 95m, 920 days (2y 190d) Since 99m, 990 days (2y 260d)

99990000 is a cool looking fungus in Quebec!

[image] wildskyflower: Any guesses for what https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/100000000 will be? if obs ID 100,000,000 is reached today, then i would think it would happen while folks in N and S America are most active. while honeybees and lady beetles are quite popular globally this …

What would happen after max number is reached?

Negative observations from the land before time?!

[image] marina_gorbunova: What would happen after max number is reached? any attempt to add to the table with the maxed out ID would fail. in a table where data is periodically purged (ex. notifications), you could just restart the ID from 0, but in a table where data is not purged (ex. obser…

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fluffyinca November 1, 2021, 5:21pm 30

We have one. See this horrendously long forum thread: Funny, long, or just plain weird animal names.

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