Current transfer issues to iRecord, helping HRS - please read.
Hello everyone,
Roger Morris noticed a sharp drop in iNat observations coming through to iRecord in April. Having investigated a bit, this seems to have to do with a technical change in the way iNat is linking to images. This has been interpreted by the bridge as a form of editing of these old observations, and caused a large amount of information traffic between iNat and iRecord that has clogged the system and caused significant delays in the transfer of new observations.
The result is that Roger has received fewer than 1/3 of the observations he should have so far this month, and there is a fair likelihood that a large number of observations are going to be dumped on him all at once at some point in the future - just as things are getting really busy anyway.
I suggest that for the next few months we generally hold back on the following activities to avoid exacerbating the issue: 1) annotating pre-2024 research grade observations. 2) making pre-2024 observations research grade.
Instead we could focus on 1) Annotating and identifying 2024 observations as they come in LINK 2) Annotating observations of any age that are still in the Needs ID pile (only sex annotations required now) LINK 3) Identifying observations of any age that are stuck at subtribe or above to finer levels LINK.
This is more than enough for us to get on with :-)
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I was about to message you about this as I noticed yesterday that my iNat observations (birds and bees) and the Panorpa stuff I've been doing had stopped getting through. If the cause is due to a global change at the iNat end then the backlog could run into the millions.
One of my records appeared on iRecord this morning. It went to RG on iNat 23 days ago....
I spent an hour this afternoon working through the 'sex annotations to Needs ID pile' when I managed to add between 10 and 20 annotations. It's getting to the stage where most of the hits with that URL are the bottom of the barrel with either abominable photography or points of view that making sexing somewhere between difficult and impossible. I think we're better focussing on the new observations as they come in or the subtribe and above observations.
It is a bit like that!
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