Paginate the Photo Browser view (vs. endless scrolling)

Just had an obs. Has been split. Restored my ID. Removed the DQA and my comment. All tidy. No identifiers (or the observer) were harmed :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Unfortunately I find that too many people change things but don’t leave comments even when asked to do so, which is why I tend to wait a bit before adding a DQA. (I even found one the other day where they’d removed the irrelevant photo and added observation notes - which no one gets told about…)

I usually get my notifications because someone else has added an ID or comment.

Yeah, I’ve also found that not commenting after editing (even when I explicitly ask them to) seems to be fairly fairly common. It is rather frustrating – because iNat doesn’t record changes made to the observation, it can make it rather difficult to reconstruct what the original situation was for anyone who comes along later (“photo 3 looks fine to me?”)

Definitely agree - I try to write my comments so it’s clear if there’s been a change (for example, ‘photos 1,2,4 and 5 are one species, 3 is something different’ at least shows there were originally five photos not four). But I’ve certainly looked at records and wondered whether there’s been a change post-comment or not.

Please keep comments on topic please!

Being able to see all images (and not just the first of each observation) in the explorer overview is by far the feature I miss the most in INaturalist. Also pagination would help to speed up the explorer page (example: the ‘unfolded’ and paginated photo browser on Observation.org)

I firmly believe that adding an ‘unfolding’ feature is by far the easiest and most effective update INaturalist can make to increase its usefulness as a reference for traits of more difficult species groups that need multiple traits for a certain identification (such as plants).

When you know users who take good detailed photos of a taxon you’re interested in, the ‘unfold’ option allows you to filter out their observations and to easily see the important ID-features at a glance, without needing to open each observation separately.

As an example from my own observations, here is a comparison between the current view which needs a lot of clicking:

And the same set of observations, but unfolded (as proposed):

This feature has previously been requested by other users (e.g. by @bouteloua: link to forum post or @gillessanmartin: link to forum post)