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 …

Please add a title attribute to the species name, so that when the whole name is not visible, you can hover over it to see it in full, rather than have to click on the link. As happens on the identify page (though that does not have text-overflow: ellipsis, which I find slightly strange). [Screensh…

Hi—I’m looking for information on sorting species in taxonomic order. Every other online bio-inventory service I’ve worked with has provided this option. It is highly valuable for example, when using online records/photos to study species that are similar to one another, which is one of the purpos…

Your question may be related to this feature request and/or this feature request may be completed with your question? https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/dynamic-life-list-add-taxonomic-sort-parameter-to-species-observation-list/37632 I agree that this kind of display option should be available wherev…

Allow upload of an image in ‘Explore’ to generate ID suggestions (image matching) - this feature available for members and non-members. This would be a useful tool for non-members, encouraging them to use the site more often and become engaged (ie sign-up).

Given the length of this thread, I’d be surprised if this is a novel suggestion but, in any case: It would often be helpful to more easily see the map through the observations. I have a tendency to just open iNaturalist, click “Explore”, and then zoom the map in to wherever I’m interested in. [Sc…

If the place names were in a layer on top of the red dots, until you zoom in - that would help.

And the opacity of the red dots would better be reduced, so that the map can still be seen.

Thank you. I do know how to look at my life list in taxonomic order. What I’m after is the ability to use the taxonomic sort in a project display, in general search results, and in edit observations. Cheers, Neil

I want to thank everyone for all their thoughts. I wish it wasn’t the case, but rewriting the Explore page is still something that’s on the backburner, unfortunately. Keep the ideas coming, but I can’t provide an estimate as to when this will actually get underway and I wanted just make sure that’s …

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Ideas for a revamped Explore/Observations Search Page

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