Platform: web App version number, if a mobile app issue: Browser, if a website issue: Safari URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: Screenshots of what you are seeing: [image] ** Description of problem**: Step 1: go to explore Step 2: scroll through a few observati…

I have experiences this on the explore page too, and using Safari, like you. Really irritating and needs to be fixed. Affects me a lot as an identifiers scrolling through tons of observations per day. Thanks for bringing up this matter :)

I’ve seen this before and think it’s a classic live feed pagination issue caused by naively implemented pagination (where here in the infinite scroll, each “page” is a ten observations or so). On the unfiltered Explore page, by the time you scroll down far enough for iNat to need to load the next “…

I’ve experienced this as well (multiple times but rarely), refreshing the page fixes it

This is a long-standing annoyance in general browser behavior, not necessarily a bug on iNaturalist. I think @barnabywalters ’ explanation is correct. And it happens with various browsers.

It has nothing to do with the browser, it’s a bug (or at least a flaw) in iNaturalist’s infinite scroll pagination implementation. The reason you see it on other websites is that a lot of developers make this mistake, and it’s only visible to users when they’re browsing a site at the exact same time…

Strange duplication of observations when scrolling on web

Bug Reports

bouteloua June 2, 2026, 10:59pm 7

see existing bug report https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observations-displayed-multiple-times-when-scrolling-in-grid-view/504

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Observations displayed multiple times when scrolling in grid view Bug Reports web	14	1568	April 23, 2026
Observations on explore page repeat Bug Reports	1	124	May 13, 2024
Observations displayed repeatedly in Explore Bug Reports	4	961	October 12, 2019
Observation showing twice in "your observations" search Bug Reports	4	1046	October 12, 2019
I keep on seeing same observations posted the same time twice in Explore Bug Reports	3	565	April 25, 2020

Strange duplication of observations when scrolling on web

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