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Hi Felix, Iāve had the same thing happen to me at least twice nowāI ālostā something like 500 species this most recent time, and adding species seemed to be the factor that drove that decrease in overall species. I thinkāand I could be wrongāthat it only affected my number on the public leaderboard though, as my count under āmy observationsā continued to increase, at least to the best of my recollection. Iāve spoken with at least one other iNatter who was experiencing a similar issue about it, and it doesnāt seem like thereās an easy fix. A friend and I have been chatting about it, and our tentative guess is that it has something to do with non-species taxa being submitted and how that factors into the algorithm used to produce that number, but it sounds like your recent additions have all been at the species level?
I donāt think adding species to the CV model would affect any āspecies observedā counts. These species exist in iNatās taxonomy and as identifications on observations irrespective of whether they can be recognized by CV.
Note that in this report tiwane stated in Dec 2023 that the solution would very likely need to be re-applied in about 12 months time! Seems about right to me.
Hello cypselurus, I have now added, among other things, 7 new species and some new families and ālostā another 12 species. Adding species seemed to be the factor that caused this drop in the total number of species. In my case too, it is only my number of species on the public leaderboard; my number under profile has continued to rise to 15,730 observed species. All species were entered in the habitats-s-afr project (4,495 species on January 31, 2025). I will now enter data without a project and see what effect that has - otherwise I am at a loss as to how this happens.
on January 31, 2025 14,393
Unfortunately no luck! My observations are getting fewer and fewer
one day South Africa 11 new -32 species (without project)
one 2 days France 19 new -19 species
if it continues like this 30 new -47 species I need about 9165 new ones to get to 0