In 2019 iNat staff said they were about to start a major overhaul of the notifications system. The forum had a thread about notifications people would like to see, including notifications about data quality changes, among other things. The thread also asked us not to make feature requests regarding notifications, just to add our ideas to the thread. However the programmers must have found themselves unable to meet this goal, because no changes were made to the notification system and @tiwane fairly recently told me the project isn’t being worked on. So in light of that, perhaps we should go back to making feature requests—probably they will go nowhere, but it might help prove a point. I think we all can agree a more robust notification system would greatly enhance the site’s usability, especially for those of us with a lot of observations or identifications.
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