For a given user name, for example mine is “pigsonthewing” in:
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/pigsonthewing
how can we find the unique user ID number, which for me is “418”:
Go to the user profile and hover over the ‘follow’ button.
The user ID number is at the end of the URL that shows when you do that.
For example, if I hover over the ‘follow’ button on your profile I see the following URL, which ends with your ID number: https://www.inaturalist.org/users/2243.json?friend_id=418
Also works if you hover the name on an ID or a comment I realise
Diana, @earthknight’s method seems to show the user ID number but I’m not seeing these by the method you describe. Could you be more explicit about the setting where you see that? An observation? An ID or comment on an observation? Their ID number? Your ID number? I’m confused.
That’s a low number! You’ve been here a long time.
Go to any obs, with IDs or comments, and mouseover each name. You get that URL displayed -
Oh - that is weird - now when I do that, I see name not number.
PS it does show number if you mouseover ID or comment on your dashboard. (Why is that different ?) Dashboard is where I checked last time. Doesn’t work if I open an obs in a new tab.
It’s more complicated than that: I tried hovering over user icons on the Explore page map view, and the first few show as numbers, then later ones show user names, and if I go back to the earlier ones that showed user numbers, they now show names. Seems to be a matter of timing on some display pages - it seems to show the user number until it has time to look up the name, then displays names from then on.
