Platform: Website (today Chromium on Manjaro Linux) Howdy, new to the site, mostly to be able to discuss/contribute the occasional ID I suppose, but uploaded two observations with an image just to earn credit to be able to message an observer who’s email address I lost. Anyway: On upload, no ques…

This bug should be fixed now, I was able to quickly change licenses to existing observations on my test account.

Okay - went to one observation to see if I could change the license there. Yes. Changed the license on the obs. (via the Edit drop down menu) and ticked the boxes for “update previous” Went into the photo info page and changed the license + ticked the boxes. Now the license is properly updated as…

Hi, welcome aboard! I’ve just looked at your two observations, both the photos and the observation are now licenced CC0. Might have just been a slight delay before the system updated them?

Ah, ok. posted that as your second comment came through

Howdy lawnranger, might be we just crossed our actions (see post above yours). I’ll try changing to something else and back via the Account Settings to make sure

Changed to CC-BY via the account settings now. But everything is still indicating CC0 I’ll leave it be for now and check back in a few hours to see what gives …

I think it’s fair to assume that this is not a “may take a while to sift through” issue. Changing the license on obs/photo and ticking “update past …” works Changing the default licenses in Account Settings and ticking “update existing …” does NOT work I have fixed it for my obs/photos by u…

The default should be CC-BY-NC. The account settings page redesign was released literally yesterday, so it’s to be expected that there’s still bugs to iron out. I think there is a prompt on mobile to choose your license when you sign up, but not sure… it’s been a while since I signed up. There isn…

[image] pudding4brains: uploaded two observations with an image just to earn credit to be able to message an observer In order to prevent spam/phishing, new users have to have either 3 verifiable observations OR 3 IDs for others before sending messages. You shouldn’t need to create observati…

Licenses not updated using new account settings page

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upupa-epops January 14, 2021, 7:10pm 12

Topic		Replies	Views
New account settings page shows copyright settings reset to CC BY-NC Bug Reports web	4	564	January 14, 2021
Wrong License Applied to My Existing Observations Bug Reports	8	497	March 27, 2021
Cannot update license for all past observations Bug Reports web	4	144	April 14, 2025
Edit license screen doesn't work Bug Reports web	8	1109	November 18, 2020
Licensing updating is inordinately slow Bug Reports	3	149	February 1, 2025

Licenses not updated using new account settings page

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