Please fill out the following sections to the best of your ability, it will help us investigate bugs if we have this information at the outset. Screenshots are especially helpful, so please provide those if you can. Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website App version number, if a mobile app iss…

you probably will need to provide more information if you want anyone to properly address this. a screenshot of the issue would be helpful. a more detailed description might also help. (how many observations are you trying to load at one time? if more than one, are none of them loading? or are they …

Thanks @pisum . @andrewmorgill that information would be really helpful, and if you can send a few of the photos you are trying to upload to help@inaturalist.org , we could see if there’s anything about them that might be causing an issue.

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astra_the_dragon August 19, 2020, 11:17am 2

Welcome to the Forum, and thanks for your report!

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