Here’s a list ofmost iNat updates that were released April, 2021. Thank you, @forum_moderators, for keeping track of these!
General
- Launched two new iNaturalist Network sites—localized websites supported by local institutions that promote local use and facilitate the use of data from iNaturalist to benefit local biodiversity
- iNaturalist Luxembourg, supported by Luxembourg National Museum of Natural History (read blog post)
- iNaturalist United Kingdom, supported by the National Biodiversity Network Trust (read blog post)
- Added Moderation Notes for better coordination between curators, site admin, and staff
- Continued work on API v2
- Continued work on time zone handling
- Many additional translations throughout the websites and apps - you can help
Website
- Small changes to the Explore, observation detail, projects, and taxon pages to reduce server load and improve overall site performance
- Fixed a bug related to following observations
Android
- Small tweaks to the new taxon suggestions feature
- Fix for Exploring by username
- More detailed debugging logs
- Crash fixes
iOS - 3.2 released
- Audio support: record audio to make an observation and play back audio files in observations
- Setting to show scientific names first or only show scientific names
- Like the website and Android, now defaulting to suggesting only “seen nearby” taxa in computer vision suggestions
- Now supporting Thai and Arabic
- Crash fixes
Seek
- Released April Challenge, sponsored by National Geographic
- Observations in Android are now backed up when you back up your device. If you get a new Android device or have to reset your current one, the observations should be restored if your phone is backed up.
- Added a settings button when camera is open
- Fixes to scientific name formatting
- Users can now interact with the Species Nearby location picker even when device location services are turned off (the map does not display until they input a location name). This allows users to explore species nearby without Seek needing to know the user’s location and without the user having GPS signal. Location picker also now includes coarser place names
- Fixes to text being cut off due to locale or font size
iNat Blog
- April 1st: Welcome, iNaturalist Luxembourg! Wëllkomm, iNaturalist Lëtzebuerg!
- April 6th: Welcome, iNaturalist United Kingdom!
- April 6th: A Slime Mold and a Parasitic Fungus in the California Woods
- April 8th: Recently Described Mexican Plant Named after iNaturalist/Naturalista.mx
- April 15th: Two Green Pit Vipers Share a Branch in Thailand
- April 15th: iNaturalist Licensed Observation Images in the Amazon Open Data Sponsorship Program
- April 20th: Temporary limitations on places and taxon changes April 26-May 10
- April 27th: A Trio of Hong Kong iNatters See a Lobster Caterpillar Moth Larva!
- April 30th: Identifier Profiles: @featherenthusiast and @karakaxa
For even more bug fixes and updates, check out iNaturalist on github and see previous monthly updates.