Unable to load older pages beyond page 100

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website

App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings):

Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Edge and Chrome

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?page=105&place_id=122176&subview=grid&taxon_id=47224

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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):

Older pages cannot load and keep getting stuck with the loading icon like shown above. This happens no matter what my search parameters are

Here’s an example:

Step 1: On the iNaturalist website, search “Amazon Region” and view observations. Then set the “species” filter to “Butterflies”

Step 2: Scroll down and click onto the next page

Step 3: In the url, change the page to page 105 by keying in “105” after “page=” (i.e. the url should look like “…page=105…”. Hit enter

You’ll find that page 105 does not load but page 104 loads fine following the same steps. All pages after page 105 also won’t load. I thought it was a browser issue but the same thing happens when i use Chrome

I hope someone will look into this soon. Thanks!

The search has a limit of 10000 results, which (at 96 results per page) you run into at page 105. See staff response here.

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for more information on the 10k limit, you can also look at the Pagination section in https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/api+recommended+practices.

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Thank you @jwidness and @pisum, i never knew about this limit. Will keep that in mind thanks!