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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website
Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Chrome
Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.): When I attempt to access this specific observation, after about a second the screen goes blank and I cannot interact. I remember this problem happening in the past with other observations and remember it got fixed, but I can not find that thread.
thereâs something wrong with the annotations on this observation. you can view the rest of it if you start with another observation first, collapse the annotations section on that, and then load this observation.
specifically, it looks like the observer made 3 annotations, and a user 6542488 agreed to these, but now that user no longer exists.
Yeah, the issue is the Annotations section. Weirdly the user @pisum mentioned isnât on our active or deleted users lists, I suspect thatâs why the annotations arenât loading properly.
I am able to load the page about 20% of the time without previously collapsing annotations (when it doesnât flash and disappear as described above), but in that case the annotations section simply never finishes loading.
⌠however, am unable to follow the instructions per @pisum without immediately âcrashingâ the page to a plain white background, again as described above, so cannot see any reference to the glitched user.
you wonât be able to see references to the non-existent user from the web page front end. if you want to see such a reference, you need to go through the back end: https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations?id=4530224.
The account @pisum referenced was deleted in April. It looks like iNaturalist didnât reindex all observations where that account had added annotations, which is what we think caused the problem here. Itâs been reindexed and loads fine now.
