Fellow iNatters!
Do you have any potential feature requests that seem so minor you can’t bring yourself to make them? Or are you worried that the requests are actually pretty dumb, so you don’t want to commit? Congratulations, you’ve found a safe space!
(Hopefully, haha).
Me, I have three things on my mind right now, and I’m curious what you all think. To be clear, I’m not especially inclined to make actual feature requests on these at the moment, because I don’t yet feel strongly enough - maybe there are good reasons for the status quo, or better solutions, or these are imaginary/pointless “problems”.
Without further ado:
(1) I think the default number of observations displayed on the Identify page should be increased from 30 to 100. I suspect (without any evidence, haha) that the lower number was set years ago, based upon assumed lower-tier internet/computer loading capabilities. But times have changed, technology has improved, and I want to see more of them at once! I know you can amend the URL (&per_page=100), but I think it’d be nice if the default was higher than 30.
To be clear, this is the page I’m talking about:
But maybe data/loading capabilities are still an issue? Or is there something else to consider? So, I’m curious - what do ya’ll think the default should be?
- 30 (No Change)
- 50
- 75
- 100
- Some other number
- I’m here, but I don’t care
(2) I think the borders around the photos on the pop-up screen on the Identify page should be thicker and multi-colored. And they should be around each photo, with the border around the current photo being slightly thicker.
Here’s an example of the current state of affairs:
This example’s not too bad, but sometimes it’s hard to immediately tell how many photos are down there along the bottom, because they blend into the background. It’d be nice if that wasn’t the case!
Good citizens of this forum, what are your thoughts?
- I 100% agree with your photo-border analysis!
- It would be nice if something was done, but maybe not this!
- Dude, there is no problem here!
(3) Taxon photos should be framed slightly differently.
Here’s an example:
The bottom of the large taxon photo gets cut off by the line of smaller photos.
Instead, the bottom of the “square” the large taxon photo fills should be at the top of the line of smaller photos (not at the bottom of them).
What do you think?
- I fully support your taxon photo recommendation!
- Come on, man.
Anyway, I thought these would be at least slightly amusing topics of discussion. Surely I’m not the only one who has opinions on these sort of matters. 
Also, I bet some of you have minor stuff like this you’d like to bounce around - as far as I’m concerned, you’re welcome to share them here. Make a poll even, let’s vote! Perhaps some of these ideas will eventually result in actual feature requests.
As always, happy iNatting! I’m going to go yell at some clouds.
