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MushroomObserver / mushroom-observer

A website for sharing observations of mushrooms.

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background iNat import #2223

Open JoeCohen opened 2 weeks ago

JoeCohen commented 2 weeks ago

Import iNat observations in the background instead of the foreground.

[ ] Rate limit for the totality of requests (all users) handled by the background job.

Questions:

Give feedback to users while job is proceeding. Pulk does this nicely in the Mirror app. Also need to notify users about problems.
Can this be "time-shared" -- imports from different users proceed "simultaneously"? This is better from a UX standpoint.