Platform: I don’t understand. Do you mean my laptop, as opposed to a cell phone?
App version number, if a mobile app issue:
Browser, if a website issue: Firefox
URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/310206364
Screenshots of what you are seeing:
Description of problem:
Step 1: I identified the plant as Ribes. w-pearce-plants ID’d it as Ribes oxyacanthoides var. setosum.
Step 2: w-pearce-plants ID’d it as Ribes oxyacanthoides var. setosum.
Step 3: The name is shown as Ribes oxyacanthoides, without the var. It seem to me that either the name should be the variety or the variety shouldn’t be an option for identification.
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I hoped the recent change would give us Needs ID at whatever taxon - in this case at variety. Still not where we expect the ID to be. CID is Genus - okay. Observation taxon is sp - but - nobody IDed as that!
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One more case to ask, Are you people out of your minds? But at least now I know why it happened. Sigh.
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The weird thing is that if you Agree using a keyboard shortcut in Identify, the ID you add is species level, but the observation ID immediately changes to subspecies/variety?!?! If anyone can explain how that makes sense, I’d be happy to hear it.
So, genus (or higher) + subspecies = OID species. Genus (or higher) + subspecies + species = OID subspecies. I really don’t get it. In the absence of disagreement, OID is meant to be just the lowest ID given, right? (Though admittedly it never was with subspecies unless it was the first ID given, which didn’t make sense either - now there’s just a more extreme level of illogic.)
I very much sympathise. Do consider voting for my feature request to allow leading subspecies IDs to be reflected in the observation taxon. 
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Unfortunate. I spent some time tonight checking on some IDs that I thought maybe I had missed because it was not showing this information. Not a fan of this either. 
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