Topic: artist tag not functioning properly

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

hi! a while back i tried having my artist tag changed to catpupcat but i think i misunderstood the system which is on me! the way it works now it shows up that my account has no art, and it doesn't autocomplete either username on the search.
if at all possible i'd like to just reverse the change and keep it as catpixonline, or make it so searching catpupcat brings up catpixonline (or vice versa, whatever works). sorry for the troubles and thanks so much to anyone who can help!
also i wasnt sure where to put this so sorry if this is the wrong category

So it looks like you did request that, and you did it correctly. That thread is here: https://e621.net/forum_topics/37132

And it was approved, so it should have been working.

But it looks like a caching issue. If you searched "catpupcat" then it would show you the images. But if you looked up the tag, it would say "0" next to it as if it was empty. So I manually told it to re-count the images under that tag. So now it has done that. And that should fix that whole problem.

And now that it knows the corrected count of how many images, it should treat the tag normally in suggestions. If I put the first part "catpu" in the searchbox, it is already suggesting it, which means it's updated by that much so far. Although it stops suggesting it if I keep tying more than that, but that should finish updating in like a day or so. Sometimes a change takes a day or so to update in the suggestions, and then it should suggest it no matter what.

So all of that should be fixed now. To be clear, that's not supposed to happen like that. It's a rare glitch. But it should be fixed now.

So both of these pages are displaying normally now:
https://e621.net/wiki_pages/show_or_new?title=catpupcat
https://e621.net/artists/76039
and of course the search itself worked regardless:
https://e621.net/posts?tags=catpupcat
and searching for the tag itself also displays properly now:
https://e621.net/tags?search%5Bname_matches%5D=catpupcat

However, if you still want to switch names back to the other name, we can do that too. Just let us know, and we can set that up for you.

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