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

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 …

Ancestor Disagreement. Sob. https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/25514-clarifying-ancestor-disagreements iNat’s own explanation. With years of comments back to June 2019.

[image] aaravmishra: And a short but very comprehensive guide to the hidden tools of iNat would be handy. see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/list-of-inaturalist-org-features-wiki/28939

Thank you for link (i only joined inat an year ago and its always funny there exists something on forum or somewhere for everything i feel suddenly lol). I honestly don’t know that was the algorithmic choice anywhere since joining while i was disagreeing (only after reading code - although now i se…

they are implying unnecessarily clicking observation image aka opening each observation on identify page while they can instantly realise the lifestage and could have added it easier from thumbnails of identify page itself if such solution is developed. just conflated “image” word usage for “observa…

That too is part of the iNat learning curve. I was shocked the first time I realise that - What’s This ? at the CID - explains - for - each single obs - how the algorithm applies ‘here’. The initial one size fits all wall of text is disconcerting. Some may never scroll thru or past that. @prunhel i…

[image] tiwane: Are you saying that photos stored on the former are loading more slowly for you? Yes, that is what I am saying. It is only the photos coming from amazonaws that sometimes take forever to load.

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