I began using iNat because I was bored on Instagram. Yea, I know…not very scientific. I have thousands of nature-related images and while posting to a platform like IG earns me Likes and, on occasion, conversation, the images (and my often lengthy, informative captions) are lost in cyberspace - dif…

It is not outdated, who said that? Everyone who wants to use it should be using it. Journal can be for everything, far from only guides. You can easily see the answers comparing person posts and project posts, they have almost the same purpose.

You can view a stream of everyone’s journal posts here: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/ It’s kind of chaotic because they’re used for a variety of different things - identification guides (I think the Guides feature is weird to navigate), project updates (encouragement for members of a project…

[image] jessicaleighallen: I also discovered that the Journal is not private , but instead, appears on a public blog roll-like list. I think that’s only if you publish it, which you don’t need to do. (You can hit “Save Draft” instead of “Publish.”)

[image] upupa-epops: I also don’t really see the purpose of a feature that isn’t public? Oh, yes…I agree. Although, when I initially joined, after setting a password, etc. I was in the mindset of “private.” And, reading the feature name Journal, I imagined it was personal. It’s not as though …

[image] marina_gorbunova: It is not outdated It was noted in my Feature Request. I began taking notice to other Community members’ profile pages and must admit, very few people appear to use it…so I assumed this is true. Happy to learn I am wrong!

[image] jessicaleighallen: I soon learned the Journal feature is outdated. Just to clarify, that although the journal functionality hasn’t seen many updates recently, we don’t intend to remove journals. The misunderstanding came from a comment from a relatively new user. I’m sorry that wasn’t…

I would recommend creating an index / table of contents. A journal that is comprised of an organised list of your other journals.

[image] jessicaleighallen: I hadn’t realized my posts were there until a Community member commented on what I assumed was a private post. People can see them there, but I don’t think many users browse that page. However, when you post a journal it will show up in the home page feed of people …

I appreciate the topic being raised. I would add that posts on this forum seem to attract more attention and responses than journal posts. I have no idea what the ‘feature request’ would be, but it would be amazing for journal posts to have a similar platform or ability to attract attention and disc…

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ddennism July 15, 2020, 6:21pm 9

In the meantime, you can link to journal entries that you’d like many people to see from your user profile page.

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