Difficulty withdrawing identifications

Platform: Website

Browser, if a website issue: Firefox 146.0.1

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/332792859

Screenshots of what you are seeing:

Description of problem: This is an intermittent problem, and I can’t replicate it easily, so it may be difficult to diagnose. However, I have noticed it happening with some frequency recently, on various observations, so it seems worth highlighting.

Step 1: Click on the small downward arrow on the top right of an identification on the observation page and select “Withdraw” (as shown in screenshot).

Step 2: The identification is momentarily greyed out and a small spinning ring appears. However, within 2-3 seconds, the identification reverts to active.

Step 3: Adding a new identification appears to “stick”. Alternatively, after several attempts and page refreshes, the withdraw function works, but I can’t work out what explains when it works and when not.

Does it matter if the observation is your observation or not?

I’ve only noticed it on my observations. I just tried withdrawing IDs on others’ observations and it worked each time, but as I mentioned, it’s an intermittent bug so I’m not sure if that’s relevant or not.

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