Hey all, The iNaturalist staff will be meeting up for our annual retreat next week and, in addition to mothing , we will be coming up with plans and goals for the next year. Now, to shamelessly pilfer Carrie’s excellent post to the Google Group last year : In preparation for that, we would love to …

I haven’t really given this a lot of thought, but could inaturalist identify the new, returning, and occasional users and invite them to this forum to give us feedback on what would help to keep them engaged? Maybe start a thread designated for that purpose so they won’t be overwhelmed by the rest o…

I’ve been thinking that it might be cool to get notifications when a project I’ve joined passes 1000 observations, 500 species, etc. It would both remind us what projects we’ve joined but also motivate people to reach the next milestone. This might not work great with the current notification system…

Tony, Can you please clarify if this request / topic is meant to cover new functionality. I read it to be exclusive of feature requests, but would like clarity before I contribute.

Hey Chris, I think broad feature/function suggestions and thoughts would be fine here, but more specific, actionable feature requests should be added to https://forum.inaturalist.org/c/feature-reqeusts Tony

[image] upupa-epops: I’ve been thinking that it might be cool to get notifications when a project I’ve joined passes 1000 observations, 500 species, etc. I don’t think this would be possible for collection projects because technically no observations are “in” a collection project, but I think…

2 things come to mind Do a better job of communicating when the team has reviewed a request and decided for whatever reason to not take action on it. For example (just an example, not meant to reflect your stance) if you review requests to add geography intelligence into the computer vision syste…

Promotional material for when setting up show stands, or at bioblitzes etc. This could be a library of imagery for things like banners and teardrop flags that can be sent to local printers etc. Live display viewer - A webview into iNaturalist that can be put on a monitor, that maybe cycles around O…

[image] tiwane: -What can we do keep new, returning, or occasional users engaged? I never thought I’d say this, but I am kind of enjoying the badges and tips and reminders that show up on the side of my screen while I’m using this site, and I’m thinking that new, returning, or occasional user…

[image] kiwifergus: Live display viewer - A webview into iNaturalist that can be put on a monitor, that maybe cycles around OotD (intl + regional), latest 12 (ie a grid view) observations for a particular place (or project), and a series of short videos to introduce iNaturalist and the iNat app. …

I’d still like the things I mentioned on carriesetzers’s previous post . My top ones are: –A separate tab in the Dashboard (or whatever other solution) so that it’s possible to ever see project or personal journal posts / Make it so the red notifications in the top right doesn’t vanish forever if y…

Any thoughts for iNat Staff?

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