I now have 2 projects that don’t automatically add my observations. Example: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/30239769 Is well within the boundaries of: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/borregowildflowers-org-plant-database That’s my own traditional project. It is within the set bou…

The aggregator is still turned on for https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/flora-of-anza-borrego-state-park-and-adjacent-desert If you go to the Edit project page, you’ll see it: [image] There is no aggregator for https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/anza-borrego-desert-state-park-colorado-desert…

Unless it is a very old project which has been given special permission for it to take place, records are not automatically added to traditional projects, you have to manually do it. Were these projects grandfathered in to allowing automatic inclusion of records ?

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/anza-borrego-desert-state-park-colorado-desert-district is an older project that’s not my own but apparently it didn’t got grandfathered

For now there is no way to add records manually, not practically if you want to add 10000 observations one at a time. Batch error out after page 50.

Hmm, for now there isn’t an replacement for the traditional project. We have a lot of obscured plants in our region making a collection project a bit useless. Another problem is exporting from a collection project is completely different and obscured plants are not visible.

I don’t set the rules for how projects work, that’s done by the site, just telling you what the issue is. Allowing collection projects to see obscured sightings is not going to happen, it effectively renders obscuring meaningless.

Yep and makes it useless for some like us. A traditional project works just fine, luckily we still have an old working traditional project otherwise we had probably had to abandon iNat. Weird to abandon the traditional project without having something similar in place.

Traditional projects have not been abandoned, they are still there, including making new ones for people who want that functionality. The auto addition of records into traditional projects was turned off well before the launch of collection projects, and was totally unrelated to their launch, it w…

[image] efmer: Weird to abandon the traditional project without having something similar in place. As @cmcheatle says, they were never abandoned, we only made the aggregator not usable for new ones due to its heavy load on the servers. Every time an observation is added to a traditional proje…

I understand this is by design, but it would be nice to have something similar for new projects. Without the obscured data, a collection project isn’t much of a research tool at least not for us. You can’t check the ID properly without knowing where it grows and following it up is a bit hard.

Closing to focus the conversation on your other topic

Not adding observations to projects

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Not adding observations to projects

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