Platform: Website App version number, if a mobile app issue: Browser, if a website issue: Firefox, Edge URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://inaturalist.ca/photos/504775427 (First picture with the issue) https://inaturalist.ca/photos/503290647 (Last picture …

My understanding is that inat automatically re-encodes every image uploaded, regardless of original format. It resizes to 2048px on the longest edge, strips out any EXIF data, and saves internally as a jpeg with a fixed compression quality. This is mainly to reduce the overall storage space required…

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