Suggestions for synonyms override options with the name typed

I do see the right genus first, but if you add a space after if, it only shows former Habenaria spp. because they’re all more commonly observed than Habenaria spp.

with space:

This related bug report was recently closed: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wrong-order-of-id-suggestions-synonyms-are-shown-before-accepted-taxon/18648/6

I’m not sure what exactly the feature request would be, or how the current ranking is done, but ranking priorities like this would make sense to me:

  1. accepted scientific name & common names that match my account settings
  2. synonyms
  3. common names that don’t match my account settings

plus some sort of weighting based on number of observations, but not at the expense of any queries exactly matching the accepted scientific name not appearing in the results.

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