Higher Volume of Reindexing Issues

[whitneybrook]

Platform: Observations added through Seek and Android (so far). Edit: found an iOS example added in comments with screenshot.

App version number, if a mobile app issue: Not sure for this issue

Browser, if a website issue: IDing through Chrome on iPad

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/292382316 Seek

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/292382801 Seek

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/292248686 Android

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/292247800 Android

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/292940540 Seek

Screenshots of what you are seeing:

Ran out of space for adding new photos, but links for more observations are above.

Description of problem:

Step 1: Search Casuals to look for observations that could be wild, but need something fixed.

Step 2: Notice higher than usual number of observations with no reason for being casual that resolve when adding a new ID.

Step 3: Start checking for how they were added and notice most are from Seek.

I’m used to finding an occasional observation that needs reindexing. Today, I’m finding about 1-2 per page of casuals.

[whitneybrook]

More screenshots

[whitneybrook]

more screenshots

found one from iOS
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/293823159

[tiwane]

Can you message me links to some more that you find? Please don’t add an ID to them or anything else. I’d like to see what they look like before any intervention.

[tiwane]

Thanks for sending me some exmaples.

FWIW I made a few observations via Seek yesterday and they were both Needs ID.

[tiwane]

So there were some database issues beginning around June 16th that we think may have caused these. We released a potential fix last week and today are reindexing observations made during the time the issue was around. Around 0.1% of observations seem to have been affected. Very impressive you noticed, thanks for reporting it!