Unable to add annotation to a sighting

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Browser, if a website issue: Chrome

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/248962936

For some reason I am unable to add a life stage annotation to this sighting - when I attempt to add an annotation of ‘adult’, it loads for a bit and then just disappears without adding anything. In the identify window, it’s just stuck on continuously loading:

The same happens when I try to add any life stafe annotation, but the other three annotation categories work normally. I’ve messed with the DQA to try to reindex the sighting and I still have the same problem, so I don’t think it’s that. Any ideas?

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Also tried. Cannot. Weird.
Can add all the Other Annotations, but not Life Stage.
??

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I tried agreeing with a few annotations and DQAs to see if that made a difference, but still I couldn’t add life stage either.

Wow, I can’t either.

Definitely seeing errors in the web console. I’ve let our developers know.

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I just tried again and was able to now.

Yeah, so what happened here was that the observation was originalled IDed as a mantis and annotated as nymph. The mantis ID ended up being deleted and now it’s in lepidoptera, so nymph was hidden but it was still there, blocking any new Life Stage annotation. We removed nymph for this observation which fixed the problem for the individual observation, but not the underlying issue overall, which we’ll investigate a fix for.

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Hidden annotations are confusing - it is there, but we can’t see what, or who.

@tiwane any update on an ETA for this issue? A lot of would-be annotations are missing as a result.

No ETA.

As in you’re not able to add annotations to certain observations?

Correct; there are hundreds of insect larva observations the past week or so that I would have annotated as Larva but was unable to due to a pre-existing Juvenile annotation value.

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