Many identifiers (even those with many 1000s of IDs) assume that observers are notified of comments within IDs. As far as I am aware this is still not the case. Following a conversation with another user though, I just wanted to check if this is true. Other than the main dashboard notifications whi…

[image] sbushes: Yes, I’m talking about when not tagged. excluding the case of mentions, i believe identifications with comments and identifications without comments get treated the same for the purposes of generating notifications.

[image] sbushes: This is about notifications for comments within IDs. [image] swampster: Say I add a confirming ID to your observation with a note on the ID: preceded [image] swampster: If you have “Confirming IDs” toggled off in your settings, you should get a notification that s…

[image] bouteloua: This is what “comments within ID” notifications look like on Android and iOS when confirming ID notifications are turned off (no mention of a comment within the ID) Thankyou. Your screenshots answer my query and conversation off forum ( fyi @malcolmstorey ) It’s problemat…

[image] wayne_j: If I understand the question, I get notifications in the “dropdown” of comments on obs that I’ve IDed. Just got one today. This is a standalone comment, not a comment inside an ID as in the screenshots illustrated by @bouteloua

[image] sbushes: This is about notifications for comments within IDs. Not notifications for IDs themselves. I understand. My point was, notes within IDs do generate notifications that can behave differently than IDs without notes depending on your settings. And I agree, the wording of the not…

[image] swampster: My point was, notes within IDs do generate notifications that can behave differently than IDs without notes depending on your settings. I see, sorry, I did miss the nuance in exactly what you saying. Nevertheless… it still doesn’t cover the central issue for me here even i…

I think this could be a feature request to be notified of comments attached to id’s I would vote in favor of such a feature request

Would be nice! But feature requests connected to notifications are currently closed I believe… This is also probably already logged in some form on the notifications thread. See : https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/notifications-on-inaturalist-please-share-your-ideas/374

If you comment, and @mention, you generate TWO notifications, which makes iNat more tedious for busy taxon specialists. While we still lack adequate tools to manage notifications. I read all of mine - but we cannot choose to Mark as Read or keep Unread - so some slip thru the cracks even with good i…

I tend to assume that observers see comments in an ID, given that most of them agree with my ID. I don’t know of any way to agree with an ID without seeing comments – unless there is some method I am missing, either you are opening the observation or using the agree button on the dashboard notificat…

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bouteloua September 25, 2025, 3:55pm 24

The question has been answered, so I marked it as the solution. Here is a related bug report I created: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/notified-of-the-confirming-id-but-not-the-id-comment-when-confirming-id-notifications-are-turned-off/70700

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