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 …

I mean, I am wanting some standard wording to explain to people why they should not be using a placeholder.

For what it’s worth, this is what I use as a default comment for placeholders when I am IDing unknowns. I make minor tweaks based upon specific circumstances. It looks like you added something to the ID field that didn’t match with the iNat taxonomy database (perhaps due to poor internet connectio…

Something I don’t get is why does ‘Explore’ automatically open every observation ever in the whole world, being able to set a default custom region and timeframe, like ‘Last 7 days,’ would be nice, since I don’t ever look at things across the world and seeing a map covered in orange isn’t very usefu…

I agree a filter for ‘last x days’ would be helpful.

You can set a default region. [image]

You can change the number of observations on the Identify page by adding &per_page= (and the number you want) to the URL. There’s more URL tips here

Thanks, never knew that was there. I still would like to define a region a bit more tailored to my location than what I can find available, as you can draw with a square or circle with explore. I found a region that is a quadrant of my state, which is about the size of area I’d want, but that’s not …

That’s a good point. Perhaps in addition to being customisable, as suggested above, the transition between pages could be smoothed out? I find much of the annoyance of having a small number of observations per page is the “skip to next page/ review more unreviewed” menu when you hit the end of the …

The project is a workaround. 2 from default Help text from @tiwane (it has taken me years to convince him that not all placeholders are to be promptly binned as useless) First for identifiers Some users add a “placeholder” text rather than an identification to their observation. Before adding you…

[image] swords: I often open observations, can’t tell what they are, and close them, which won’t automatically mark them as reviewed without that button. If you have taken the time to open the observation, just click on the reviewed box in that observation before you close it. Then you won’t…

Small, Potential Feature Requests

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Topic		Replies	Views
Make the My Identifications tab operate the same way as the My Observations tab Feature Requests	19	1301	July 3, 2023
Am looking for some test users of an identification app General third-party-tools	74	6203	November 1, 2021
What is the one thing you wish you could do on iNaturalist? General	48	4716	August 23, 2019
Making identifying more fun/interesting - wiki General	25	4446	September 24, 2021
What would make it easier for you to do more identifying? General	27	2864	May 28, 2020

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