I was identifying unknowns when I came across an observation where the observer’s observation count displayed as zero: [image] While I was in the identify portal when I found it, “zero observations” also shows up on the observation’s page ( https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13659754 ) and on …

I’ve seen this from time to time and wondered about it myself. I hope someone can offer some insight.

It’s a longstanding bug. Last I heard, the staff don’t know how to replicate it, even though there are lots of examples: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/inaturalist/Vm9_lzMa-DY

Yeah, we still haven’t figured this one out, unfortunately.

Ah, okay. Thanks for the background info! @tiwane , if more examples are found, would you like links/associated usernames shared here?

Found another one: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/alec25 [edit] one more: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/jonrice [edit] and another: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/12213144 Don’t know if the trend holds through the examples in the Google Group post, but for both all four of the …

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13694859

i didn’t look at the examples from the Google Forums, but looking at the examples mentioned in this thread, they all seem to occur on users who created their accounts and posted observations only during window sometime during May 2018 and June 2018. i took 3 of these examples and looked for other us…

I haven’t seen this bug as much recently, but my past attempts at getting to the bottom of this have uncovered no common conditions, so we haven’t prioritized this. Here’s my spreadsheet where I started keeping track of them. If anyone wants to dig in further, feel free. https://docs.google.com/spr…

digging in too much without proper access to the database to do some querying is probably a super inefficient task. i wonder if there’s a way to trigger the system to recount the observations for users whose last activity was between, say, April and June 2018? that might fix many of the problems, ev…

it might be a slightly different kind of problem, but i just wanted to note here that i came across a case where a user made an identification but the user’s profile indicated 0 identifications: [tbd_identification_count_mismatch_2] [tbd_identification_count_mismatch] the API ( https://api.inatura…

"Zero observations" for user with one observation

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jeanphilippeb March 19, 2025, 7:32pm 19

This profile page mentions 0 observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/lylac27

But this iNatter has an observation:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13424728

Topic		Replies	Views
Profile indicates zero observations when one exists Bug Reports	3	523	February 10, 2020
Observation page claims the user has 0 observations Bug Reports	4	448	December 6, 2019
Discrepancy in observation count between profile page and explore page Bug Reports	3	499	February 3, 2021
User with(out) observations in Identify Bug Reports web	1	621	December 29, 2021
Ident count on Identify page thumbnails is inconsistent and count in app is also different Bug Reports web , android-app , staff-can-replicate , issue-made	32	2356	July 26, 2023

"Zero observations" for user with one observation

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