Platform (Android, iOS, Website):
Website
App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings):
NA
Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) :
Chrome
URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/biodiversity-galiano-island
Screenshots of what you are seeing (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/):
Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):
Step 1: Visit Project page for Biodiversity Galiano: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/biodiversity-galiano-island
Step 2: Add observations representing taxa not previously observed on this project. You could try adding a monkey to testâŚ
Step 3: The âSpeciesâ counter for the project has not changed after many new additions. These new additions are clear when you visit the Observation page and note that there are no other cases of that species occurring on the island (the project boundary). Whether or not an observation is âRGâ does not influence things. The species counter has remained fixed at â2,399â for quite a while nowâŚ
I have had a similar issue in the past where species counts actually decreased on a project, which was referred to by devs as an âindexing issueâ. I wonder if something similar is going on?
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The counter just went up 1 sppâbut Iâve added several species new to this project in recent days which havenât yet registered. Again, I donât think this has to do with whether or not species are RGâŚ
I added a Leopard Seal observation (since deleted) and saw the species count increase pretty much right away. Any specific URL of an observation that doesnât seem to be increasing the species count?
This is really odd indeed. Here were the observations I added that did not seem to result in a species count increase. Itâs pretty hard to judge this issue⌠but I only posted to this forum after a series of observations of novel species did not change the counter.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/48489340
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/48460936
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/48205023 (two obs of this same species were added in close succession)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/48091418
The reason I twigged to this issue was because I was waiting for the 2,400th species to be counted, to share a post regarding the progress of this project on social media. After seeing several new species added, without that count changing, I figured I would report the issue as I had seen similar âindexingâ issues before.
Maybe it was a latency that has since been resolved? Hard to know!
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Thanks for looking into it, anyway, @tiwane âI appreciate that this hardly a priority issue.
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Perhaps it was a temporary thing. I just added a Giant Squid observation (alas, now deleted) to the project the species count went immediately.
