What version operating system and browsers do you have? Sometimes old operating systems or old browsers have problems with websites.
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Here’s a video of me uploading a observation photo with the developer console in Chrome
Go to the new observation page.
Open the developer console, and select the network tab. In the video, I used ctrl + click > Inspect to open the dev console. You might have a different shortcut. My dev console is on the right side, but yours might be in a different position.
upload a photo
Do you see any new items added to the network tab? When I upload a photo, I see photos, blob…, data…, etc added to the network tab.
Maybe your browser is having problems with the cache. Browsers have a private browsing mode. Chrome is “New Incognito Window”, Firefox is “New Private Window”. Try opening the iNaturalist site and uploading a photo using Chrome incognito window and/or Firefox private window.
This will have to wait til I have time. No, nothing tricky or fancy–as I said above:Windows 11, chrome and firefox browsers, up to dae. no incognito. i absolutely hate this. i give up! should not be this hard. sucks all the enjoyment out of using the site. i am an older user, am not tech stupid, and still cant get it. sorry for the rant, but man.
I doubt this is the issue, but it’s relatively easy to test. Sometimes there are issues with ISPs or similar. You could try a VPN and see if that makes a difference.
Console: still no errors
Network: on opening upload page, there is util.js. same as listed above when trying to upload a pic: photos, blob, data, photos x many
can’t copy the Network contents, as could for console, but here is teh copied utils
If you click on an item in the network tab, another panel appears. When I go to network tab and click photos, blob…, or large.jpg, the “Headers” panel shows
Status Code (green dot) 200 OK.
what is the status code on these photo requests? if they have no status code, are these requests shown in red text? if the requests are shown in red text, there almost certainly must be errors logged in the console. i think the only way there could be no errors logged is if there is something on your machine blocking the requests, but then maybe you’re getting warnings that indicate something about blocked requests instead?
here’s a example of what i would expect to see (for each photos request in red text, there is at least one error logged):
this doesn’t matter. nothing related to anything google is important. the only thing that’s important are things related to https://www.inaturalist.org/photos.
if you’ve taken a screenshot and it’s in your clipboard, then while you’re composing your next forum post, just paste the screenshot into your post using ctrl+V.
don’t provide any screenshots of anything from the headers section. there’s sensitive information in there, and if you’re not familiar with what’s in there, you might accidentally leak some of that sensitive information. the only thing that’s relevant is the status code, and that can be provided in other ways.
it’s not that folks don’t believe you. it’s that no one else can reproduce your issue, and you haven’t really provided the information requested either so that others can get a better idea of what you’re seeing (in the absence of screenshots). you still haven’t indicated what the status code (if any) on the photos requests is.
if you don’t want to provide the information, that’s fine, but i don’t think anyone will really be able to help you if you don’t provide more information.
