'interesting' error message display

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Now that’s some funny way to present an error message (Web browser: Firefox).

It showed up after I had a tab open for several days and then trying to write a comment

(luckily I was expecting problems and had the text saved, because after the error message the text was gone - which might be posted as a separate bug report or feature request)

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(I stitched together the error message from separate screen shots)

The message at the top reads:

Failed to save. Please try again later

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I got one like this yesterday that spelled out “not found.” Weird…

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I also got a similar message like that yesterday while trying to fave a observation.

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I believe this was a bug fixed yesterday: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/checking-no-its-good-as-it-can-be-fails-to-save-record/32001/8 (If you had refreshed the page, I suspect you would not have received the error.)

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I thought this report was for the way the error was formatted, not the error itself?

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Are you seeing a similarly formatted error message today?

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I’ve not seen any errors recently, so no.

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I just saw it.
I tried to add this observation to various projects:

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The error message formatting issue (or improvement, maybe? :wink:) is a separate bug from the failing to save bug. Working on a fix.

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Based on the topic title, I thought the same thing.
The other topic that Cassi linked seems to be for the failed to save error.

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Interestingly, it added the observation to the projects despite the error.

Wen I tried to add an Identification to this other observation, however, I got the same error but it didn’t save my ID.

In both cases, the message is
Failed to save record. Please try again later.

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