Does anyone know why the species and observations stats for observers in a project are different when viewing them on desktop vs the mobile app? This has confused me for ages, which one is more accurate and why are they different?

I participate in Pinery Provincial Park’s project. When viewing the “leaderboard” or the observers page of the project, my species count is at 607 on the mobile app, and 601 on the desktop page for the project.

which mobile app are you using? screenshot, please.

it looks like you’re using the iOS app. i have only the Android app, which shows observation count but not species count by user on the project page. what i see in Android is 1220 observations for you, which matches what shows up on the website’s project page. so the fact that you get 1239 (19 more…

Project observer stats differ on mobile and desktop?

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