*Step 1: Opened taxon page for Rusty Willow Sawfly and see 15 observations, 7 of which are research grade, in stats and seasonality graph.
*Step 2: Click on “View more” under main image and an empty search is returned (see first screen shot). This does not change even if I select different filters (Faves/Date Added, Research Grade/Any) or refresh the page.
*Step 3: When checking the observation page (second screenshot above), I can see all the observations, which can each be opened up and viewed normally. This problem now appears on several other taxa (see comment below)
The photo browser is now not functioning for a majority (70%?) of all taxa for me. After having done a restart to my computer, the following taxa did not display their images in a gallery mode:
Red-backed Darkling Beetle
Red Net-winged Beetle
Etorofus propinquus
Rusty Willow Sawfly
Green Long-lipped Tiger Beetle
Genus Scelolyperus
White-spotted Sawyer Beetle
Billbug Weevils (displayed a single image on photo gallery, despite 2,391 observations)
But, the following taxa did seem to (at least partially, if not fully) work:
Problem continued until I toggled through the “Grouping =” filter. Then when I returned to “Grouping = None”, the full functionality was restored and all images are visible in the photo gallery. I note that I have never used this particular filter before.
I still can’t replicate after trying in multiple browsers using multiple taxa and filters. Can you please share screenshots of the browser’s console for pages where you can’t see photos? In Chrome, go to View > Developer > Javascript Console.
After doing extensive testing, I believe all of the reported issues could be explained by having an annotation filter that might not show in your photo browser options (except in some cases under Grouping - see my other reply) and contains a value that is not relevant to the current taxon. The end result is that nothing matches.
For the impatient, here’s a workaround:
Skip all my lengthy explanation and just find a taxon that has an annotation filter that is set (i.e. doesn’t have “Any” value). If you’re having trouble in one particular taxonomic tree, go to a different one (like if it is Flowering plants that don’t show up, try Animals, and vice versa). The key is to find one that has a menu from which you can choose “Any” again to clear the stuck filter. Once you do that, you should be able to see all photos in your other taxa again.
What’s going on and how to reproduce it:
The last time I was in photo browser I clearly recall I had filtered on life stage = adult. Today, I tried the photo browser for a taxon for which life stage is entirely not applicable (Usnea longissima). It shows no photos, and no option to unset life stage:
Reasoning that my situation (arthropoda -> fungi) was somehow different than yours (maybe plantae? -> animalia), and that made the difference re. Grouping fix, I tried:
browse photos (no matches, as I expected from my other test)
toggle Grouping
unlike with Usnea, I had some options other than None and Taxonomic; toggling between those was ineffective
however, it does have Life Stage Grouping, which in Animalia corresponds to Plant phenology in Plantae
when I toggle to this and back, it fixes the issue
But depending on which annotation filter you set initially, and which one you’re having trouble with, you may or may not have a Grouping option available to you that you can choose to workaround the issue. With Fungi you are particularly out of luck because it has neither Life Stage nor Plant Phenology, so there is zero overlap with “stuck” filters on either of those.
Thanks everyone - I just logged in specifically for this bug that has been peeving me for a while now and I see there is at least a workaround for now.
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 issue (shown under Settings or About):
Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : any (verified with both Firefox & Chrome)
Viewing the URL above while logged in as myself, I get just the text “no observations yet” with no photos. The same thing while I am not logged in shows many photos. It must be some sort of filtering, but there’s nothing specified on the URL (and “Filter by Place” isn’t on). What else is sticky?
This has been happening for some time, and I just kept forgetting to report it.
but the same results seem to happen on any species I try.
Description of problem When on a taxon page and you I click View more photos, no photos are shown even though there are plenty of observations of this taxon (See screenshot).
Interestingly enough when i open an incognito window and go to the exact same URL it works and displays photos as expected. Then, after I log in in that same incognito tab, the photos are then gone as soon as I log in.
The same has happened to me quite a few times lately; For some reason it shows “No observations yet”, no matter what species you try to see “more observations” of. However, after a while it works again - seems to be one of those intermittent things?
Platform (Android, iOS, Website): website Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Chrome URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/42069-Vulpes-vulpes (= example of a species page where you can click on the ‘more’ button to get an overview with pictures of the species)
PROBLEM:
When I click the ‘More’ button on any species page to see more pictures of that species, then (see next picture)…
