Wanted to provide an update now that this thread is now over four years old (!):
Revamped notifications system and dashboard - This will have to be a revision from the ground up so it will take some time, but we acknowledge that this is part of the site which needs a big update. I’ve started a topic in General where you all can share any thoughts you have about notifications. Note that new Feature Requests about notifications won’t be approved, please share your thoughts in the General topic.
This is still on the backburner. A lot of design and coding attention is focused on the new mobile app.
Implementing an embedded translation feature for comments and descriptions, similar to what’s found on Twitter and Facebook.
No movement, but there’s a feature request you can follow.
Create a tool to help users split and merge their observations
No movement on this.
Rewriting the Explore/Observations Search page and adding more filters.
We haven’t made progress here aside from collecting ideas and requests.
Investigate ways to capture comments and ID remarks that are useful for making identifications and including them on the taxon page and in identification tools.
On the backburner.
Bring up the iOS app to feature parity with the Android app.
We decided to build a brand new app instead, so while some features were added to iOS, we’re only doing bug fixes and minor updates now.
Continue to improve the Computer Vision model and the use of geospatial data in suggestions.
Lots of changes here, mostly due our using transfer learning, and the model is updated once a month now. See this blog post and subsequent computer vision posts on the iNat Blog.
Continue to upgrade infrastructure and make the site more efficient behind the scenes as the community scales.
This work has continued and the long downtime last March helped out a lot. But as iNat continues to grow, this work is a constant.