Show all updates together, to show all of the observations for categories the user is following. currently, you can only view them in hour-by-hour snippets. I want to be able to view the whole batch together
The ability to “follow” specific taxa and regional observations is one of my favorite newer features of iNat, but I want to be able to see the whole collection in the same list on the website. I’m thinking of something along the lines of a “view all” button on the Following tab. This would make the overall function more useful, so users could more conveniently access the taxa and regions they are trying to “keep tabs on”. eBird has a similar feature for rare birds, where they send you an email, but you can also view the list in more detail on the website.
I approved this request, but I’d like to see a more specific example of what you’d like. Also, this would not work well for people who have massive subscriptions, like all mammals, or all birds in north america, etc.
When I follow someone, I get their observations in multiple notifications (not sure what to call it). So when I go to my dashboard it could be filled with one user’s observations just sent in spits and spurts, 3 observations in one, 14 in another, then 5 and so on. It really makes me want to unfollow everyone. I wish I just got one update per day of everything they’ve uploaded the previous day.
When subscribing to a person place or taxon I would like to see more than 4 observations at a time, could it be increased to 12,16 or 20.
When you reach the bottom of the page and click on “More” would it be to much trouble to jump to the top of the next page rather than having to scroll up each time.
If there are more than four observations in an update, there’s a “Show more” button on the bottom right-hand corner. Clicking that will expand the post.
This is definitely an issue with the dashboard. Probably not going to be fixed unless there’s a serious overhaul, though.
Honestly, what may be more likely in the future is a dynamic subscriptions functionality, where you manually choose to see observations that match your subscriptions, rather than having it be auto generated. Subscriptions cause iNat’s infrastructure to be constantly working in the background, creating more load on the system.
