Observations and Observers not aggregated by Project

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): see table below

App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About):

Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) :

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:

Screenshots of what you are seeing (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/):

Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):

Step 1: Navigating to: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/bucking-bay-project yields different statistics for different platforms; see table:

User Casual Observations Species People identifiers observers Members Operat. Sys. Browser App
Admin. incl. 434 187 70 4 Windows 7 Brave 1.47.186
Admin. incl. 434 187 5 91 Android 12 iNat
Admin. excl. 429 185 70 4 Windows 7 Brave 1.47.186
Admin. excl. 429 185 5 91 Android 12 iNat
User excl. 347 166 70 4 MacOS Sonoma 14.3.1 Safari
User excl. 287 4 iOS 18.3.2 iNat

Step 2:

Step 3:

Some of the differences between admin and user views may be due to observations with obscured coordinates being included in the project, but intentionally only visible to project admin.

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Thanks for your reply, Cassi !
That is indeed likely the case.
I should have specified that the main concern is for the Admin to see incorrect statistics, depending on the Platform used.

sounds similar to https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/species-showing-in-project-observations-but-not-counted-among-species-when-trusted-with-hidden-coordinates/28283/7

You are right, Pisum, it looks like this is a known problem (since 2022) but has not yet been resolved …

Just wanted to clarify that this is more than a nuisance, as I’ve been harassing my team members to upload their observations, whereas (they tell me) they already did …

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