"Fungarium Name" Observation Field

Platform:iNaturalist web

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Browser, if a website issue: Chrome

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:see https://www.inaturalist.org/observation_fields/19292?page=1 for all the entries impacted. Here are a few examples of entries in this field that previously were text entries: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172371333 , https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/314712574 , https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/285107678

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Description of problem: The Observation Field “Fungarium Name” used to be a text fillable field, but now it is a drop down menu with either “UT Austin” or “other” as the only options. I believe user cosmiccat made this change, which now makes that Observation Field unusable to the dozens of previous users of this field. Can this field be reverted back to the previous version? There are a couple hundred entries under that version and users like me can no longer use this observation field. Thank you for your time and assistance.

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Hi, this sounds like a dispute between users of an observation field rather than a bug with how iNaturalist is working, so I transferred your comment to the observation field and tagged the user you believe you need to discuss this with. I’m going to close this report to focus the discussion in one place