The number on the profile used to be hyper-inflated , double-counting a lot of taxa (ie, counting the genus and species of a single observation as 2 separate “species”, so it’s good to see that it’s been fixed to give a more accurate count. Still, I get different numbers all over the site, so it’s still very inconsistent depending on where in the site you’re looking, for example:
On my profile: 4161 species
On my Observations page: 4621 species
On the “Observers” tab on the same page: 4014 species
On my life list: 4212 taxa
As point of comparison, the number on my profile used to be around 6000, which is very wrong, so the new count feels like a more accurate reflection, albeit still inaccurate.