I live in a city that is not participating in CNC and I have largely decided to ignore it and keep puttering away at spring bee observations. I am about a month behind, so it will be a while until I get around to the CNC pile.
I fall into the group of those who are fairly critical of CNC and its impacts on iNat as implemented in many cities.
I also want to note that as someone in a non-participating region, the CNC leaves me feeling somewhat marginalized as an observer: because a lot of IDers are understandably focusing on their cities right now, it means that it is even less likely than usual that anyone will look at my observations from this period anytime soon. I actually considered not doing any observing at all so as not to make the pile that IDers are already dealing with even larger than it already is. The problem with this is that late April is precisely the period when many interesting plants and insects start appearing, so it is precious time that I want to be out documenting whatever I can find. But it is rather discouraging to know if I find anything that is particularly exciting or even just something where I would like feedback, I will probably be waiting a very long time for IDs. I suppose I could wait a few weeks and post my observations later when they might get more attention, but it seems a bit unfair that I should find myself making such strategic calculations at all.