User observation list on the old site and API is missing observations

Bug Reports
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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website

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

Description of problem: Following the API documentation at https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/api+reference#get-observations-username requesting observations for a user is not returning all the observations.

  1. Request observations for a user, eg. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/lalakooka.json?page=1&per_page=200

  2. Notice how only 15 observations are returned, asking for page=2 returns no results no it’s not a pagination issue.

  3. Indeed, this is also an issue on the site at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/lalakooka only 15 are showing.

  4. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=table&user_id=lalakooka&verifiable=any shows 102 observations for this same user.

UPDATE: It looks like this is an issue with the old site and old API. Using https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/docs/#!/Observations/get_observations returns the full set of observations for the user.

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there’s not really an issue here, right? the old API is already deprecated. so as long as you can get what you need using the current API, then i would close this bug report or mark it as solved.

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Yeah so I would suggest at https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/api%252Breference where it says

Note: a faster API with more consistent response formats can be found at api.inaturalist.org.

to be updated with the preface “The API documented here is deprecated and has known issues, a faster API…”.

It wasn’t clear to me that the first API was deprecated and that it has known bugs.