iNaturalist recently started obscuring dates on all observations with obscured locations (i.e. it now shows August 2021 instead of August 14, 2021). I understand the rationale for doing this on auto-obscured, sensitive species. Here is my issue. I post hundreds of moth photos taken in my backyard. L…

I would like that as well, I need to obscure the location of some species, but I have uploaded other species from the same site on the same date, so there is really no problem at all for anyone interested to find the exact location

Don’t forget to vote for your own request!

This is the same issue I have: I obscure the location of organisms observed at my home because I don’t want to just hand out the GPS location of where I live. There’s no need to obscure the dates of those organisms.

I just noticed this as well, I obscure all of my locations but I definitely don’t wish to obscure the dates and times of the observations.

I didn’t realize this until now but I agree there needs to be a compromise. A lot of my obscured observations don’t require the date to be obscured.

It all was discussed in original topic btw https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/obscuring-observations-now-obscures-the-date-of-comments-and-ids/24929

We understand the desire here, but it’s not something we’ll be implementing. It will make what’s already a confusing functionaliy more complicated, and there are existing ways to obtain access to the obscured dates and locations if need be (user-to-user trust, projects, direct messages, etc).

Allow observers to unobscure dates for their manually obscured observations

Feature Requests

Topic		Replies	Views
Obscured observations only showing month observed for other users General	42	1809	March 16, 2022
Obscuring geolocation by date? General question	25	2308	September 22, 2019
Obscuring observations now obscures the date of comments and IDs General	188	7561	August 10, 2021
Obscured date of an observation is visibile on GBIF General	4	195	November 9, 2024
Option to hide time (show just the date) Feature Requests otherprivacy	19	2829	November 22, 2022

Allow observers to unobscure dates for their manually obscured observations

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