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This has been fixed, in a way. The only way to get you to a page that corresponds to the number is to take you to https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications then filtered by identifier and taxon, so that’s what the link does now. You can read discussion on the GitHub page.

I have found this frustrating as well.

I never noticed that misdirection before. I agree that it is counter-intuitive to click on the number of IDs and have the identifiers observations show up. (Clicking on the identifier’s name or icon brings up their profile page, from which you can get to all their IDs, but that doesn’t narrow it t…

Glad I’m not the only one who noticed it!

Made a github issue here: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/4216

Clicking Top Identifier Link Leads to Their Observations, not IDs

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Clicking Top Identifier Link Leads to Their Observations, not IDs

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