Browser, if a website issue: Firefox 147.0.3 (64-bit)
URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: Any species which has life stage ‘Juvenile‘
Screenshots of what you are seeing:
Description of problem: When clicking “View More“ for more photos of any species which has life stage ‘Juvenile‘, the page always opens with life stage filter set to ‘Juvenile‘. This doesn’t happen with species which doesn’t have life stage ‘Juvenile‘ included(the page loaded with life stage filter set to ‘Any‘, as it should).
Step 1: Open any species page which has life stage ‘Juvenile‘
Step 2: Click “View More“ for more photos of the species
Step 3: The next page always opens with life stage filter set to ‘Juvenile‘ no matter what
I had tried to change the filter to ‘Any‘, and when I refreshed the page, it went back to ‘Juvenile‘.
And I had mentioned it on the first post, this doesn’t happen with any other species which doesn’t have ‘Juvenile‘ life stage filter. It opens to ‘Any‘ filter as it should.
It is very ‘sticky’. It sometimes takes several attempts before it changes to another value. I have noticed that as well. I don’t think it is taxon-related.
For me, it doesn’t behave this way. I go to a species page and select juvenile, then I go to another species page and it retains the juvenile filter. But if I change it to ‘any’ before going to the next species, it shows the next species as ‘any’ also. It behaves this way whether I navigate to another species by using the search box or clicking a link on the Taxonomy tab.
Only just now I tested it out several times again, and yeah, it was super ‘sticky‘, which in a way, it’s still some kind of a bug, no?
I tried with other taxon and yeah, it stayed that way once you picked your filter. And when you closed it out and opened another taxon, like pfau_tarleton said before, it kept staying with the previous filter. You needed several times to closed and opened the page(or refresh, I’m not sure) to make the filter went away.
I mean, the filter should always back to the state without any filter active once you close the page, not being THAT ‘sticky‘ which carry over to the next page you open.
I’m still not able to replicate this issue, my experience matches @pfau_tarleton.
@indrakusuma_a how are you going from one taxon page to another? Are you searching on the website, or are you editing the URL? I assume the former but want to make sure.
If sticky settings didn’t stay stuck, they wouldn’t really be sticky. The stickiness is designed to remain stuck for as long as possible (including across page changes and logins). This implies you must explicitly reset the setting whenever you want something else to stick.