Hi, I would like to subscribe to places that are not in my country, but when I try to type the place name in the Choose a Place box I am not given options outside of my country. Here is an example: Right now I’m subscribed to the plant taxon Salix glauca, which brings me updates on every new obse…

It sounds you’re just using iNat Canada instead of regular iNat, so you automatically have filters on for Canada. Just log in for regular website, iNaturalist.org and there won’t be any, but you also lose pluses of affiliation.

No luck there either, thank you.

Thank you Marina, that is helpful and I’ll explore that option. What is a “plus of affiliation”?

“North America” does work when I log into iNaturalist.org as Marina suggested, thanks both!

Thank you Marina for the link. I’ve got both pages open to my Dashboard, they look extremely similar so it seems worth a try to use the .org site instead if it allows me to fine tune my subscriptions. I had not understood that the login address mattered and that there were different ways to access i…

Thanks for raising this issue, @margaret_eaglecap . I could replicate. I’ve noted that we should remove this restriction, but for the meantime, @marina_gorbunova is correct that using iNaturalist.org instead of iNaturalist.ca (or any other network site) is a viable workaround.

Thanks to the help I’ve gotten today, I’ve already made the changes I wanted to make to my subscriptions which will save me a lot of time doing IDs! I really appreciate the help, the site is complicated and there is a lot I still have to learn about how to make the most of it :-))))

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marina_gorbunova September 29, 2022, 7:15pm 9

Check here https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-does-site-affiliation-entail/12426

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