Unexpected result: Open two tabs in iNat; one tab is a flag (Tab 1) and any different page on iNat like an observation or taxon page (Tab 2) Resolve the flag in Tab 1 Tab 1 will now load the page from Tab 2 with a banner at the top that says “Flag saved” Expected result: Tab 1 shows the resolved …

I have definitely noticed the same thing on Window 7 / FireFox 66.0.3. Next time I see it in a specific workflow, I’ll document the preceding steps.

@kueda is there any way to prevent this from happening? It’s frustrating when I resolve a flag and want to follow up with a comment, but then when the page reloads after saving the flag, it’s now displaying something completely unrelated (from another iNat tab I have open).

Still happening for me too, and I’ve been remiss on my promise to document it :/ For me it seems to happen with Curator-only windows, like when editing flags, TFRs, taxon pages, etc. Haven’t noticed it when only general-access tabs are open.

Long answer: Generally when you perform some action that alters the state of iNat, we return you to the last page you were on unless we are absolutely sure you always want to be on a certain page after that action, and that’s based on the assumption that submitting data to a particular place doesn’t…

[image] kueda: I made it work the way you want, I think Suspended this user from top of this page . In response the same browser tab then loaded this page (25M observation announcement). That page was not active in any other tabs at the time, although I had visited it recently (in a differen…

@kueda , another unexpected result is when editing my account settings . I would expect it would take me to either: my profile/user page ( https://www.inaturalist.org/people/bouteloua ), or reload the account settings/profile/user edit page ( https://www.inaturalist.org/users/edit , as long as that chan…

Same issue when: committing a taxon change flagging a user as a non-spammer subscribing to a flag changing the site language in the bottom right corner

Platform: Website Browser: happens in Firefox 83.0 (Mac) as well as in Safari URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: open in separate tabs: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66215168 https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/76067-Carex-leporina Screenshots of what you a…

Issue with using iNat in multiple tabs — loading wrong page on "save"

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tiwane December 9, 2020, 11:11pm 10

Made an issue here: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/2881

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Issue with using iNat in multiple tabs — loading wrong page on "save"

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