Yeah, I saw the explanation. It should be possible to calculate the average rate of submission, and therefore the ID allocation rate, and then increment by that

Yeah, I saw the explanation. It should be possible to calculate the average rate of submission, and therefore the ID allocation rate, and then increment by that plus some safety margin when restoring. It's just ironic that the first time in nearly 1500 days of lurking on HN I actually decide to post, the site itself eats my submission.