Filters Page: Download URL No Longer Works

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just for clarification about what actually happened here:

  1. on the export page, there was originally a validation that required that you to specify a taxon, place, user, or search term in order to kick off an export.
  2. under certain circumstances, the validation could be bypassed (a bug). nycbirder had generated some exports after inadvertently bypassing the validation, and was essentially looking for a way to bypass the validation again.
  3. iNat staff removed the validation in #1 altogether (probably because it was not reasonable to fully close all the ways to bypass it) and replaced it with a rule that allows you to have only one export running at a time: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/commit/d4744b219299541b0a40a761d99b81680004669f.

for moderators, i suggest this thread be closed, along with these other threads (which are all variations of the same thing):

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