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I’m kinda sure it was intentional change to reduce time of loading pages.

I just had this happen too, and I absolutely hate it! Can someone put it back, please?

I had noticed this but just now I’m not having the issue.

I think showing them is supposed to be “sticky”, so if it’s not, maybe that’s the issue?

Yes this sounds like a duplicate of that issue. The annotations panel has for a long time been collapsable, and for a couple days last week there was a bug where the open state was not sticking for users. We thought this was fixed last week and at least some people on the other post seemed to think …

OK I may have found a pattern. The panel is sticky, but reloading the Identify page and then opening an observation from it resets to a closed panel. This then applies to all observations, even ones opened from other places (such as the dashboard). However, reloading the Identify page and opening …

[image] pleary: for a couple days last week there was a bug where the open state was not sticking for users Yes, I reported that bug, which was kindly fixed within hours. The annotations panel on the observations page now stays where you put it (at least for me on Chrome). Very occasionally t…

[image] thomaseverest: reloading the Identify page and then opening an observation from it resets to a closed panel Good catch! I can confirm this behavior and it explains why I was observing intermittent loss of stickiness.

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cthawley April 26, 2021, 4:58pm 6

Might be related to this recent bug report?: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/annotation-controls-not-loading-properly/22326

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