This topic is for discussion about the December 2025 Identifiers Survey blog post We welcome constructive feedback about the survey and results.

[image] prunhel: “Thanks ID confirmations” are a disaster (and btw account for the majority of the notifications I receive). I regularly try to tell people to only confirm if they are sure of the identification I have proposed, but most people ignore it. To alleviate the issue a bit… After a …

I agree and have done both these things (removing ID or bumping back to a higher level or using “Yes it can be improved), as well as leaving comments pointing users towards iNat’s new-ish Help article which does a great job covering the issue: https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/artic…

[image] prunhel: “Thanks ID confirmations” are a disaster In 2020 there was a change which removed the Agree button on observations which are already RG, with the intention of disincentivizing “redundant” confirming IDs. That was quite unpopular and was reversed a couple days later. However I…

This would be a popular feature request

There are many other things that can make iNat better. And a short but very comprehensive guide to the hidden tools of iNat would be handy.

When I don’t want my ID to be confirmed for any reason, I just put it as a comment.

sorry yes, there are no threads open for voting algorithm discussion. I think the current one is fundamentally inefficient (mathematically provable) algorithm for some cases of disagreements. As survey summary indicated, it needs lot more identifier efforts during disagreements consensus in multiple…

Thanks for the feedback and great discussion so far! [image] Vireya: One thing I didn’t mention in the survey (because I forgot about it until straight after completing and going to do some identifying) is how slow photos stored on Amazon are to open in Identify sometimes. To be clear, all p…

[image] prunhel: The difficulty of adding annotations: for example, for the Life stage annotation, in the Identify tab, you have to go to each image one by one to add it. Whereas very often, you can see from the thumbnail image whether the insect is a larva/adult/other. Really? I thought the …

Blog Post Discussion: December 2025 Identifiers Survey

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There is no feature request because it’s already a planned feature: Notifications on iNaturalist - Please Share Your Ideas!

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