Nice article in Wash. Post. At first blush it may seem like a random love story, with too many photos of a happy couple who met while moth-ing, but really it’s a lovely article about the ways iNat helps connect people with nature and with each other, online and in person.
I hope this gift link works:
but that requires you to make an account. doesn’t the link just open to the article?
It opens to the article but is blocked by the popup you see above and you cannot scroll.
ah ha! I did not know that. Oh well. I don’t think NYTimes does that.
Apologies for starting this thread…
Nothing to apologize for!
FWIW, in Brave browser I can read the entire article without signing in.
Nothing like the glow of a black light on a moth sheet to spark romance, I suppose. My wife and I met over live mammal traps. To each their own.
Fortunately, I can get into any Wapo article even though I haven’t paid for a subscription by just repeatedly clicking on the link. It rejects me two or three times, and then it accepts my user name from the old pre-paywall days and it lets me in. It won’t let me comment on the articles, though, which is annoying.
Well, there’s no free lunch in life … someone has to pay for the content Sometimes you can work around the paywall by google-searching the article title if it’s been online for awhile. But doesn’t always work.
Somehow, I don’t think that my sneaking in the unlocked back door is going to seriously hurt Jeff Bezos.
It’s a fun article, but I don’t think it’s lightweight at all. These days when people really need an anchor, connecting with nature and naturalists has strong societal value. I bet it recruits a lot of people.
My recommendation whenever this happens:
You can make up an email. You can type anything in there, as long as it fits the email adress format. No confirmation, nothing.
I tried that, it didn’t work. Either it said I already had an account or it said error.
I finally got around to reading the article.
…avoiding the dopamine-addiction aspect of social media “has probably stunted our growth,” but he [Scott Loarie] likens the enterprise to Wikipedia…
Nope. As anyone who’s been on either iNat or edited a wiki before knows that it can get addictive. Even my best friends tell me I spend too much time online because of it. Once it gets in the way of life obligations I stop…most of the time.
I can’t access the article but I just saw multiple comments on social media from people saying they quit iNat because of it. That didn’t make sense to me given other context, so I’m guessing it’s from comments under the article about Google/AI rather than the article itself?
Edit: found access to the post and comments and everything seems positive. 
