Platform: website App version number, if a mobile app issue: Browser, if a website issue: Firefox URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/340117844 Screenshots of what you are seeing: [Capture.PNG] Description of problem: Step…

Thanks for this bug report. On Tuesday we deployed some changes that were likely responsible for this. I saw an error effecting Identifications on observations that had no ID, where the ID was of a species, and where the ID contained some remark text. We just recently released a fix so those types o…

Just tried to add an ID to another of this person’s observations and got the same error: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/340118780 [Capture1.PNG] This is the error I get from the Identify page. If I try adding an ID by opening the observation and adding an ID, it appears to add then the…

100% Homo but only 17% sapiens for the hat tree - says the Enhancement Suite ;~) Koala gets 29% - go figure.

The CV wanted to tell me the “hat tree” was a snake. Bizarre.

I got this same error popup the other day but I can’t actually remember what caused it and it only happened once. For those struggling to interpret the message, it says “Internal Server Error” once you remove all the "error: " copies :joy:

ID AND comment = failed to save. Opened in a new tab, same difference. Add the ID. Then the comment in a separate step, and it sticks.

Same problem today. Website. Chrome.

I’m not seeing this error when adding any IDs, or IDs with remarks. [image] DianaStuder: Same problem today. Any observation? If not, which specific observation?

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/77077616 yes, thanks - working as intended now.

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