iNaturalist Updates for April 2023

[tiwane]

Here’s a list of iNat updates for April 2023. Thank you, @forum_moderators, for tracking these!

General

• Behind the scenes work on optimization for better performance
• Continued work on API v2. Curators can test it and provide feedback, see this thread.
• Many additional translations throughout the websites and apps - you can help.

Website

• Bugfix: navigating to a taxon between genus and species no longer reverts to About tab
• Bugfix: control + click now correctly opens pages in new tab
• Bugfix: flagging projects now works correctly
• More details were added to the Data Quality text on an observation page
  
  

Android

View all release notes
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iOS

View all release notes
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Seek

• Released April challenge

iNat Blog

• April 6th: Facebook Login Is Gone
• April 11th: It’s not a Grass, it’s not a Sedge, it’s a Pipewort! - Observation of the Week, 4/11/23
• April 18th: Spring Reveals Cup Fungi in Japan - Observation of the Week, 4/18/23
• April 26th: Temporary limitations on places and taxon changes April 26-May 8

For even more bug fixes and updates, check out iNaturalist on github and see previous monthly updates.

[dianastuder]

That explains why the DQA paragraph looked fresh yesterday, thanks!

[wowokayyes]

@tiwane Any information on the forthcoming IOS iNaturalist to match the Android version?

[tiwane]

No, but to be clear that’s not the plan. We’re making an entirely new app from the ground up that will work on both platforms. Currently available mobile apps will just be getting bug fixes until that’s released.