Here’s a list of iNat updates for January 2024. Thanks for helping to track these, forum moderators!
General
- iNaturalist is hiring a part-time Accounting Associate!
- New Computer Vision Model released!
- New iNaturalist Help Page now up, work will be continuing on it
- Continued work on new mobile app - in pre-Alpha testing with staff
- 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
- Web uploader - observations that trigger warnings will now be highlighted, to make them easier to find
- You can now add observations to traditional projects from the Identify page
- Various small bug fixes
- Updates to Year in Review
Android
- Released version 1.30.6 (599)
- Fix to sort order of News tab
- Crash fixes
iOS
- Version 3.3.2 released. Minor bug fixes, and compatibilty with content hiding has been added.
Seek
- Released January challenge
- Released version 2.15.6 with a fix for posting to iNaturalist
iNat Blog
- January 4th: Our first new Computer Vision Model (v2.10) for 2024 including 1,599 new taxa
- January 9th: Icy Fungi!
- January 15th: Using iNaturalist to learn names in other languages
- January 17th: Experiments to estimate the accuracy of iNaturalist observations
- January 18th: When You Stumble Upon a Yellow-winged Bat…
- January 23rd: Meet the 2nd Pancheria ouaiemensis Plant Posted to iNat!
January 30th: Three Flies Over a Flower - Observation of the Week, 1/30/24 - January 31st: We estimate the accuracy of Research Grade observations to be 95% correct!
For even more bug fixes and updates, check out iNaturalist on github and see previous monthly updates.