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It looks to me like this bug is now fixed, sometime in the past couple of days?? I am not losing my comments when the ID kicks in, although my “n” is small at this point. Thanks so much to the iNat team for working on this!! :)

Probably related to these two bugs Comment duplicated for comment then ID in quick succession within one observation Comment is duplicated for two IDs made in quick succession on two separate observations

Thanks for reporting this issue, which I started to notice a few week ago. I never found the time to report it in detail as you did and hope it can be addressed.

@kschnei can you please say where on the website this happens - on Identify, on the observation page, both?

on Identify for Firefox for sure

Identify in Win10 Chrome for me. I haven’t commented enough on observation pages since it it started, to assess that.

Observation page, all the time, on Chrome. Its fine if you add the comment in the ‘tell us why’ box. Same thing happens if any DQA box ticked and you start to add a comment.

On Identify is where I’ve noticed it.

Hi Tony, were the developers able to track down the bug? It’s still affecting me when first adding an ID (in the observation page) and subsequently typing in a separate comment (using Chrome). Pretty annoying to lose bits of comments all the time and having to start over…

I’m seeing this as well and it’s persistently annoying, enough so I eventually came and searched for this bug report on the forum. As others have said, it happens on the identification page. If you have a slow enough connection / are far enough from the servers, then it takes many seconds for any c…

[image] JeremyHussell: After adding an ID Only sort of a solution, but my technique is to comment first, then ID.

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Bug Reports

Topic		Replies	Views
Comments/descriptions started before observation finishes indexing get erased Bug Reports	23	1008	February 28, 2021
iNat gobbles up comments Bug Reports	5	521	December 14, 2020
Comment is duplicated for two IDs made in quick succession on two separate observations Bug Reports web	12	623	December 20, 2020
Comment duplicated for comment then ID in quick succession within one observation Bug Reports	5	681	December 22, 2020
Existing recent comment not showing on observation until I add an id or comment Bug Reports web	7	531	January 3, 2021

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