Observation list is truncated on the app

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iNaturalist iOS app

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Observation list is truncated on the app #506

Open dartar opened 5 years ago

dartar commented 5 years ago

For some reason, the iOS app removes arbitrarily some observations, stops displaying observations older than 3 months (and then weirdly it displays an observation from years ago). Is that a built-in limitation of the app? I was trying to look up a photo I took 4 months ago and I was confused I couldn’t find it. Compare the two screenshots below from the iOS app vs the website, after Squirrel Cuckoo:

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alexshepard commented 5 years ago

the iOS app generally only fetches the most recent 200 observations from the inat.org servers. it will also display any observations for which recent activity (community added comments or IDs).

dartar commented 5 years ago

Understood. So maybe this should have been phrased as a feature request, “add pagination for historical observations”?

alexshepard commented 5 years ago

Sounds good. Once I'm done replacing our old network/database layer (RestKit, long since abandoned by the author), we'll have a lot more flexibility about what we can do with a users observations.