This has come up several times (e.g. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/metadata-takes-forever-to-upload/2615 ) so thought I should make a feature request. When uploading images on the web, observations are stuck for a long time on the message “Uploading metadata…”. This seems to be misleading, AFAICT …

Rename "Loading Metadata"

KitKestrel May 2, 2019, 5:43pm 2

this would be very nice

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