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I’m running into the same issue - when I select “This observation” under the Follow dropdown on an observation, the loading symbol shows up for a brief (but variable) amount of time, then disappears without “Unfollow” appearing. Following observations still seems to work like normal in Identify, tho…

Had the same issue, but was on an observation of someone I am already following. Before this you could “follow” the observation as well as the person.

I think my issue is probably related; I am unable to unfollow any observation that I have placed an identification on. More descriptively, clicking the “Unfollow this observation” command leads to a brief spinny-wheel, lasting a second or two, without any evident change (i.e., option to unfollow st…

The problem is persisting. I am unable to follow https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/75401195 & https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/75427765 I left a message at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/74965381 and am now following the observation. I did test if I am able to unfollow, I…

2 days later: still happening, intermittently.

I have been adding a rough ID, to make sure I can follow

Thank you! Seems to be working fine now.

Follow this observation button only functioning on some observations

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tiwane May 1, 2021, 1:14am 14

This should be fixed now. Working well for all of the examples I tried from this thread.

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Follow this observation button only functioning on some observations

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