When iNat is down, all API requests will get a HTTP 503 and the response will be this text/html page:
We can detect this and show the user a message that indicates that iNat might be down at the moment. I don't know if iNat run a status page but we can always suggest to the user:
"it looks like iNaturalist is unavailable/down for maintenance at the moment. Please try again later."
The user can still do local things on the app, but just can't sync anything.
When iNat is down, all API requests will get a HTTP 503 and the response will be this
text/htmlpage:We can detect this and show the user a message that indicates that iNat might be down at the moment. I don't know if iNat run a status page but we can always suggest to the user:
"it looks like iNaturalist is unavailable/down for maintenance at the moment. Please try again later."
The user can still do local things on the app, but just can't sync anything.