Platform: Website
Browser: Chrome
Screenshots of what you are seeing:
Description of problem: Unidentifiable sex annotations stack as I change between observations. I don’t know what triggers this. It happens with some users’ annotations, but not with others’. If I search for those users’ annotations, it doesn’t work though.
Step 2: Look through observations
Step 3: Profit
I just wanted to find some kind of scat, not play god!
Maybe posting a link to the search would be better? The screenshots being in Hungarian do not make recreating this … easy :)
It’s time to learn a new language that you’ll never use again
I don’t have screen shots (in any language), but I have seen a similar thing on rare occasions with Alive or Dead - “Cannot be determined” being listed several times on each observation when viewing through “Identify”. It is like that setting gets stuck and shows up once then twice then 3 times as I advance through observations. I haven’t taken evidence to make a bug report, and I have no idea if there was any common factor the times it has happened. Closing Identify and doing something else re-sets things.
I’ve seen something like that at times. Quite annoying. I never knew why it happened. I had to close out and go back in to get rid of it. Fortunately, it hasn’t happened to me recently.
That would take too long
I tried to do a little testing with the link in the OP. If I throttle my connection to something like 3G speeds and cycle through the obserations pretty quickly, I can sometimes “collect” some of the Alive/Dead annotations. I suspect that it has something to do with loading times and not everything being completely refreshed sometimes when you’re going through observations.
Maybe its just that iNaturalist’s annotations are catching up with gender diversity. If we’re not all binary, it makes sense that other organisms might not be either.
What I am getting at is that explanations like
only explain part of the problem. It might explain why there are so many, but doesn’t explain why they are unidentifiable.
I was on the Identify screen, identifying Crown Whiteflies for anyone curious.
Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website
Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : MS Edge
URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: Any open ID-Annotation page
Screenshots of what you are seeing :
The 1st observation I intended to annotate:
Description of problem : Using S+C (= sex can not be determined) and switching to the next ID tab with the arrow key, while the annotation is still loading, the annotation marker/text will carry over to all following observations. Happens often after using EO-AA-SC quite fast. It’s a visual bug that resolves itself after closing the observation or switching to a new page.
However, I cannot replicate it with any other annotation except the sex.
The problem I have is, that, sometimes, the fully loaded text carries over and I cannot be sure if I typed out S-C on the new observation or if it’s a visuall bug. I can only test it by re-opening the observation, or by adding a “2nd” S-C annotation.
Step 1: Annotate SC several times in a row (the combination of AC-SC seems to be a quick trigger!)
Step 2: Move on to other observations by using the arrow keys
Step 3: Once the bug is triggered, press SC again to add the duplicate
Is there something I can do, except being slower?
See this about the same problem:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/an-infinite-amount-of-unidentifiable-sexes/61202/10
Ah.
I was looking for “annotation”, “hotkey”, “shortcut”.
Thank god it’s being adressed.
thanks.
I moved the above posts to this thread to focus discussion on one bug report.
Made a github issue for this today: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/4478
So we haven’t been able to consistently replicate this on our end. We’re releasing a potential fix today, it would be really helpful if anyone who’s experienced it in the past can try to replicate it. Should be out in the next hour or so.
Thanks! I’ll keep a watch for it and grab a screenshot if it happens again.
@Kuplungos, @kyle_eaton_photography, @Vireya, @IDfanatic, can any of you still replicate this bug? We released a potential fix last week, but since no one on staff can consistently replicate it we don’t know if that really fixed the problem.
Darn. Could you please provide more detailed steps to reproduce this? I can’t replicate this given the steps in your OP so I am missing something. Something along the lines of, “Sign in as user xyx, go to https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify, change the filters like this click on the first observation, click on Annotations, click on this button, click on the arrow button to the right of the popup to navigate to the next observation before results load…” The more detail the better, because if I can’t experience this myself, I probably won’t be able to fix it.
