Since the first week of January, I’ve noticed a significant slowdown on the iNaturalist website, particularly when loading taxon suggestions while identifying observations. Additionally, the images in the list of taxa suggestions are taking an unusually long time to load.
I’m wondering if this issue is specific to my browser or internet connection, or if others are experiencing similar slowdowns.
For reference, I’m using the latest Chrome version on Windows 10.
Is this a known issue, or are there any recommended troubleshooting steps?
Here in South Africa I have noticed this since about 25 December. I thought that it was maybe a local problem but other websites load as before. I have been finding iNat very tedious and slow in all respects. A few photos taken early in the morning take me until midday to load. Granted I am on an old MacBook Pro.
Oh good, so it not just me… just moved back to Germany and thought “wow, Germany really IS bad when it comes to digitalisation compared to my South American homes of the past few years” (well, still is true actually)
in my experience, loading and uploading pictures and taxa is way slower on the app, slow death slow
but the map loads faster in the app… while on my computer takes ages. the search is also super slow. like is faster to use my super slow cellphone to search for something than in my pc.
make it make sense?
anyway, my internet is slow for real.
but even when my internet is working fine, and i can use youtube, and other apps… even then sometimes inat wont load correctly on the app… it will take a whole day or more to upload an observation. no matter how big or small.
Those are coming directly from Amazon Web Services (AWS), so what’s more likely is an issue between AWS and you (perhaps via your internet service provider?) than an issue with iNat itself. Hard to say, though.
Hi tiwane. I’m in South Africa and on the website. I restarted everything this morning and managed to load an observation. However when I tried to open the observation to do the annotations it just loaded endlessly. Similarly when I get an ID notification and try to open my observation to check it, it just loads without end. I’m not a computer boffin, just a dummy user and I’m at the end of my tether. I do not know what to try further. Other websites load as normal and I’m currently streaming Classic FM from the UK without an issue.
Is anyone else still experiencing slow load time on the website for their Dashboard page. Since joining, it has been the page I go to for checking notifications. But it has been loading so slowly that I switched my entry page to my Observations page.
The page I get when I click ‘Your Observations’ in the top tab loads very quickly and I can see if I have notifications at the top right of the page.
But I realized that, bypassing the Dashboard means I’m not catching posts from Projects I belong to or iNat’s blog post promos.
I did a slow count of seconds for loading the Dashboard. It was 7 seconds one time and 8 seconds another. That’s fairly standard. It seems really trivial to fuss over 8 seconds but it only started sometime this winter and I’ve joined the ranks of the impatient in regards to waiting for web pages to load!
(I can remember setting our computer to download a new LOTR movie trailer and going to bed so we could watch it in the morning. That was patience!)
Anyhow, I wondered if there’s something wrong on my end that I can fix or if this is just the way it is now.