iNaturalist Updates for February 2022

[tiwane]

Here’s a list of iNat updates for February 2022. Thank you for compiling them, @forum_moderators!

General

• Account suspension is now a Moderator Action with a required explanation
• Added Taxon History, a function to increase transparency and accountability when users edit things like conservation statuses and add/edit/remove taxon names
• Continued work on API v2
• Many additional translations throughout the websites and apps - you can help.

Website

• Potential disagreement modal - focus now defaults to “I don’t know but I’m sure this is…”

Android

View all release notes

• No updates released.

iOS

• No updates released.

Seek

• Released February challenge

iNat Blog

• February 1st: Mason Wasp Uses Cicada Exuviae as a Nesting Site
• February 3rd: Identifier Profile: @roman_romanov
• February 8th: Meet the First Phlox pattersonii Plant on iNat!
• February 15th: A New iNat User Posts an Amazing Guatemalan Neckband Snake!
• February 23rd: A Botanist in Nepal Posts a Prickly Blue Poppy
• February 28th: Rest In Peace, finatic

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

[thomaseverest]

Did the icons on taxon changes also get upated? I don’t remember the conservation statuses looking exactly like this before.

[tiwane]

Yes, the style was changed slightly.