not quite related but: the app reports time elapsed since observation but does so in an unintuitive/suboptimal way, namely as “number of 86400s periods truncated to integer”. in this example the app currently states the age as “5d”. this is correct by the above prescription since photo was taken on july 10 around 17:00 and right now it is july 16(!), around 13:00. so in terms of elapsed 86400s periods, so far about 5.8 “days” have elapsed – and the app seemingly truncates that to “5d”. I would argue that it would be better to report calendar date difference, in this example that would mean" captured on july 10, current date july 16 -→ age “6d”
On the Explore page “Map” view, the observed date is listed next to the location and the upload date is in the lower right corner. When an observation isn’t obscured, it shows a little “+calendar” sign next to the date, i.e.. “added” on this date.
I assume this is intentional there as observations are default sorted by upload date in this view, there are two different dates listed, and a novel icon is used to display the difference in “normal” (unobscured) cases.
fyi to others, this is what your obscured observation looks like in that view:
thank you, I see. if it is intentional to show upload instead of observation date, I just have to remember this fact in the future (although I personally would think that observation date would be a better choice?).
in any case the android app then has a different preference by actually showing the observation time in the “my observations” list rather than upload time.
but I might not yet fully understand the role and interaction of app and website anyway: I would have naively assumed that my account is going to be 100% synced between app (smartphone) and website (laptop). but what I see right now, having uploaded the first observation from the app and the next two from the laptop, is:
while the header says “3 observations” (correct) and the species Tab shows the full list of 3 tentative identifications, the “observations” listing only shows a single one (the one which was uploaded from the app).
is this as it should be: only partial sync from server to app in so far as for observations reported via website the respective user images are not downloaded to the app?
Manually dragging down on your observations should refresh the list of observations. I believe the stats at the top may update separately. I don’t know if the discrepancy in your screenshot is intentional or not (e.g. to save mobile data by not downloading observations?).
ah…, dragging down as you suggested actually did the trick, thanks a lot. the discrepancy (if you refer to “3 observations” header and only one observation in list was real (that’s why I asked :)). only now (after swiping down on “observations”) the list is complete (3 observations). how is it supposed to behave? is the manual intervention always required or should the thing update itself just so?
Ah yeah what I meant was I’m not sure if it’s intentional that there is a discrepancy in the statistics at the top versus the list. I’m not a developer so I don’t know what the code base says or why it was written the way it is.
