A click on “Add ID” in the Identify page should put the focus on the “Species” control text box. (Just as it does after pressing the key “I”). A click on “Comment” in the Identify page should put the focus on the " Comment" control text box. (Just as it does after pressing the key “C”). I think …

Alright, this is now fixed, sorry about that!

I’ve noticed this too while identifying earlier. This has resulted in a lot of erroneous identifications just by identifiers trying to click “Add ID” or “Comment” Example: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/63214768

I am also having this issue too

Also same issue for me this morning. Kept just adding a family-level ID that the AI had generated on other people’s photos, when I was trying to add a genus or species name!

Same here! Just started yesterday and is quite annoying.

Screenshot for reference. I have just clicked on ‘Add ID’ and I usually just start immediately typing out a genus or species - but since the ‘species’ box isn’t highlighted, I am just typing into the void OR I hit a key that accidentally makes me agree with the first ID. (I am on google chrome on a …

This is due to a recent change in the code. The developers are on Pacific Daylight Time, but I’m sure they’ll address it soon.

I’ve been having the same issue. [image] brandonwoo: I hit a key that accidentally makes me agree with the first ID. I just did this twice, but instead of the first ID, it was the CID.

Yeah, looks like a bug, we’ll take a look. While things like this are usually not browser-related, sometimes they are. Thus it’s often really helpful if you can include your browser when reporting a bug. That’s why the Bug Reports template asks for this information. Curious: it sounds like you’re u…

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pastabaum October 22, 2020, 11:03am 3

I agree. I am used to entering the name right after clicking on “Add ID”. Now there is an additional step of clicking in the text field or pressing “I”. I hope this isn’t intentional and will be reversed.

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