The Explore page ( www.inaturalist.org/observations ), sometimes called “observations search” or “obs search”, was written in code which is older and now out of sync than newer parts of the site such as Identify and observation details. This means that rather than add new functionality to the current …

Similar remark: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ideas-for-a-revamped-explore-observations-search-page/8439/157 I would appreciate it a lot.

When a user hovers over an image in grid view or list view, the contrast is lowered or something; the image becomes very washed-out. Clearly, the ostensible purpose of this visual feedback is to let the user know which image he’s hovering over. But it also clearly detracts from the usefulness of the…

Grid view is not done to iding imo, so you need to click on image anyway.

Do you mean you can’t give an ID in grid mode? I realize that. But I still want to be able to see the image clearly.

I quite like the Explore and Observation pages. However, I would like to see a search option for Unknown. Currently, “Unknown” and “Life” are regarded as equivalents by iNat, so by searching Unknown, the site will return every observation submitted in your specified geographical range. I would pref…

Welcome to the forum! Is this what you’re looking for? [image] How to use iNaturalist's Search URLs - wiki part 1 of 2 Search for observations that have no identifications Observations of Bacteria, Archaea, Viruses, and Life show up under the Unknown category . To filter just for observation wit…

Yes, that’s exactly what I was looking for! Thanks! Maybe I should have done a bit more digging…

I would appreciate an option to display the Species tab - and I suppose this could also be extended to the Identifiers and Observers tabs - in reverse order. Currently I find the Life Lists quite confusing, so I prefer to use the Explore page, but it only displays species in order of most to least o…

Please add a filter for observations “Included in a traditional project” This would be the same set of observations for which we currently get a notification saying “curators added some of your observations” Projects tell me that a particular observation I’ve taken is useful to someone, which enco…

You can filter observations for any project they’re in using a field in filters. [изображение]

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