iNaturalist Updates for March 2023

[tiwane]

Here’s a list of iNat updates for March 2023:

General

• Updates to blocking and muting
• Script to clean up duplicate lexicons for common names is now active
• 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

• Statuses inherited from parent taxa are now shown on species and infraspecies taxon pages.
• Relative dates for obscured observations are no longer shown in Explore.

Android

View all release notes

• No new release this month.

iOS

View all release notes

• No new release this month.

Seek

• Released March challenge

iNat Blog

• March 7th: A Freshwater Crustacean That’s a Work of Art - Observation of the Week, 3/7/23
• March 14th: Facebook Login may be going away
• March 14th: Yes, There Are Two Vipers Here - Observation of the Week, 3/14/23
• March 18th: Thank you for helping generate most GBIF records for most species since 2020
• March 21st: Fluorescing Mushrooms! - Observation of the Week, 3/21/23
• March 30th: Identifier Profile: @jurga_li
• March 30th: A new Computer Vision Model (v2.2) including 1,603 new taxa

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

[jianstargazer]

在Mac上使用Safari浏览器 浏览网站 能打开但是加载不出我的以及其他人的观察记录，这是bug吗，在iPad和iPhone上没有问题，使用的都是同一个网络。另外iOS16上的app经常闪退，各种情况都有比如编辑观察记录等等，希望尽快解决这些bug，另外希望尽快加入深色模式。。。

[bouteloua]

hi @jianstargazer, welcome to the iNaturalist Forum! If you are experiencing an issue with iNaturalist, please open a topic in the #bug-reports section. There is a template with questions to answer about the issue. Including screenshots as examples is often very helpful.

As far as dark mode for the website, that has been proposed in the past and staff decided not to move forward with the suggestion.