Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website
Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Opera, Chrome
URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/gguer and https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?captive=any&place_id=any&project_id=65697&subview=grid&user_id=gguer&verifiable=any
Screenshots of what you are seeing (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/):
Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):
Step 1: The species count differing between someone’s profile page and the explore view is well known/documented. But this is the first time I’ve ever seen a discrepancy for number of observations.
Step 2: None of this user’s observations are casual grade
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Are you sure you got their username right when you went to explore? Are you viewing a download copy of the page by mistake? Are you sure you got their username right when you went to explore? If yes then pretty sure this is a bug.
There was a rash of these a few years ago that was especially evident when you saw a zero next to someone’s profile when looking at one of their observations using Identify. I started looking for patterns among them that may point to reproducible conditions so we could fix it, but the problem seemed to mysteriously fixed itself.
Last week I came across a new example of this (but unfortunately forgot to document it…), so I think it’s back and additional sleuthing for successful reproduction conditions is definitely appreciated. Here’s a Google sheet I made for it.
I also think it was publicly discussed but couldn’t find it with a cursory search so if anyone else recalls please link. It was likely in the Google Group that preceded the Discourse forum.
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