Platform: Windows 10
App version number, if a mobile app issue:
Browser, Chorme
URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:
Screenshots of what you are seeing:
Description of problem:
Step 1:open a species page
Step 2:Some of them show this
Step 3:
Can you please share example URLs of pages that show the error?
I noticed this yesterday too. It’s inconsistent. The same taxon page shows the whale shark sometimes and not others. Here’s an example that has been doing it for me (but only sometimes I load the page): https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/384897-Aceria-genistae The ones I’ve noted it on so far don’t have Wikipedia pages.
Also worth noting, I’m seeing it on Firefox on MacOS so it’s more general than Chrome-Windows.
It does seem to involve the Wikipedia panel with the code for making a new Wikipedia page. Sometimes when I refresh the taxon page I see this panel of Wikipedia code, sometimes there’s no panel with code, and occasionally there’s the whale shark.
weighing in; have also been seeing this inconsistently on firefox on linux (debian)
I have seen this several times in the past few weeks, and every time refreshing the page, or navigating to a different tab (like the map tab) makes it go away
I, being a hardcore-user, have never encountered that in Edge. o.O
Also noticed this on Firefox (Windows); but I’ve also noticed the taxon navigators (Life → Plants → etc) turn green and misaligned when this happens.
I’ve been seeing this every now and then on Edge as well.
Edit: switching to the taxonomy tab will also mess up the formatting there for a few seconds before it corrects, then switching back to the about tab makes it work.
As an example.
Many pages show this message.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/68625-Helicoidea#articles-tab
Displays fine for me on Chrome and Edge.
oh that’s funny they turn red and misalign for me
I have seen this consistently when trying to go too far back through an Identifier’s IDs. For instance: https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications/rambryum?page=3892 or even https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications/schneidried?page=362. I can’t read my dev log on this machine, however it seems like the request is hitting a firewall(?)
For me, it happens if you come from the title with species name of an observation e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/737811 and only the default species page exists. If you refresh the page with the error, it displays ok.
This was a bug we had some reports about (they were mostly coming from people who weren’t logged in, although not always) and we released a fix on October 25th, so maybe the fix didn’t correct for all situations. I haven’t been able to replicate on my end, though.
I believe this is a separate issue and more because we can’t show more than 10k results.
