Platform(s), such as mobile, website, API, other: Website URLs (aka web addresses) of any pages, if relevant: Description of need: If a user logs in on one of the iNaturalist network sites (in this example, iNaturalist.ca), they would still be signed out on every other network site (They would be…

I don’t know how technically feasible it is, but it would certainly make my job easier.

Great idea! I log in to inaturalist.org , but often follow links to observations on the Australian site and can’t ID or comment because I’m not logged in to it.

I also find this inconvenient, but (if my understanding of the underlying technologies is correct) this is unlikely to be easily fixable. I may be oversimplifying, but the ability to have a consistent identity when moving from page to page within a particular website relies on identifying the user …

[image] Vireya: often follow links to observations on the Australian site and can’t ID or comment because I’m not logged in to it Aren’t the same observations also on the main site? You have to adjust the URL, which I agree is annoying and feels redundant, but you can get there. Would it work…

Yes, sorry, the problem isn’t really that I “can’t” add comments or IDs. Yes, I have to change the URL, after seeing the notice that I can’t add comments or IDs because I’m not logged in. So it is an annoyance rather than a real obstacle. And the people leaving the links with different URLs in comme…

@Vireya just log in to the other domain as well, it’s the same site just different domains. But if they had an auto renaming feature enabled you wouldn’t have to.

Thanks, Reiner. I had a situation where the password I had stored on my machine for ALA was different to the one stored for iNat, so logging in to ALA wasn’t working. But I think I’ve fixed that now so I will try keeping myself logged in to both sites.

If logged in on a network site, log the user in on all other network sites

Feature Requests

pisum June 13, 2024, 9:28am 6

this other thread may be relevant: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/stay-within-your-inat-network-affiliation-domain-when-clicking-links-to-other-inat-network-sites/6898

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If logged in on a network site, log the user in on all other network sites

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