probably related to this:
with the new change, sometimes you’ll have to click the bottom of the dropdown list of taxon suggestions to include non-nearby suggestions, although, for me, the non-nearby suggestions for your specific example are further off base, i think.
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i went back to one of my old observations where i had accepted a computer vision ID (mallard) for my initial ID (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69294668), and looking at the computer vision suggestions now, i don’t see that old (mallard) ID. it does seem like in the past, the computer vision would have easily made the correct suggestion for this observation, and now it does not:
UPDATE: see my next 2 posts for some additional info. what’s mentioned in this post is not actually the problem.