As mentioned in the 2019 staff retreat follow-up , a priority for this year will be to revamp the notifications and dashboard system, as the current one is creaky with age and leaves a lot to be desired. This is something that will take time to create, and we would love to have your input as we plan …

Maybe notification when my observation becomes 1st RG observation of that species in my country (cause that happened to me and I didn’t even know, just found out about it years after). It could be made like an achievement kinda thing. Or, in the same sense, notifiation announcing “You just get your …

I would love to get notifications on the mobile app. Also, I would love to receive and reply to messages on my phone. Another thing would be notifications for the forum. I can go weeks without checking it.

[image] daturademon: I would love to get notifications on the mobile app. Definitely someting we’ve investigated, but we want to get them right on the web first. [image] daturademon: Also, I would love to receive and reply to messages on my phone. That is an open feature request: http…

Right now I have about 575 notifications whether on my desktop or iPhone. Even after I read them and/or comment to them they still remain in the count. Is this a temporary phenomenon? Thanks!

i just got this notification on an observation ( https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/18667901 ): [image] i had to think about it for a while, since megachile clearly added the field to the observation, but the notification shows kimberlietx for some reason. maybe this kind of message can be ad…

Someone just asked me if I new of a possibility to include information into the daily email notification if ever new observations would be added to a specific project during that day. The project concerned is one collecting data about Neobiota in Luxembourg, https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/ne…

I get hundreds of notifications a day. I do not have time to look at all of them. I only look at a few categories: -comments -tags -identifications for which the identifier or observer makes me think they would be interesting. Unfortunately, if someone leaves a comment for me in their identifica…

[image] edanko: I get hundreds of notifications a day. … Or does anyone have other suggestions regarding dealing with this issue? Do you already have agreeing ID notifications turned off in your account settings?

Turning agreeing identifications off might help. I get, on average, with agreeing identifications off, 30-50 notifications a day: most are tags or IDs on my own observations.

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bouteloua May 23, 2020, 4:31pm 163

There’s an open bug report here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/editing-observation-fields-reports-wrong-user/2290

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