Performance issue when agreeing with ID - very slow on both web and iOS app

Hi @codrin_bucur, welcome to the iNaturalist Forum! Thanks for filling out the template. I’ve noticed slow annotation loading times for over a year when adding on the website. As far as slow loading times for adding agreeing IDs, I have never experienced anything as extreme as 30 or 60 seconds. I just tried agreeing with an ID on iOS and it took 6 seconds to save. I agreed with an ID on the website from an individual observation page and it took 8 seconds for the green spinner to stop spinning.

This issue about very slow annotations has been reported in the past though, so let’s focus the discussion about that in one place: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/slow-loading-time-when-adding-annotations/8348/

I’m not sure this is necessarily a bug per se, but will leave this open for now. Keep in mind that iNaturalist continues to approximately double in size every year, so there are commonly issues with scaling since the number of staff and allocated resources haven’t also doubled!

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