I also encountered the zoomed photo thumbnails.
The map pinning is very quirky.
I pin the location and turn on the hide in 1km square function on.
The pin moves. I move it back and turn off the hide in square.
The map pin flickers and usually stays in place even after saving.
While the map pin problems remain note down anything you find. that stops map pins playing up.
Actually it is the reason behind it that is the issue as it could suddenly stop the forum working with any browsers, if it were just not uploading photos from one browser then indeed we could easily live with that. Basically the symptom was showing something more serious that needed fixing.
The fix will need to be tested and during that time the forum may be unstable so just be prepared for that.
Yes, this has been reported a few time in recent MONTHS - Amadan specially had some probs but I didn’t. But now I have. The pin sometimes won’t stay where I place it and I can repeat the process several times until it stays but will it be there tomorrow? Perhaps we should check back a few.
I found that using the map or the Satellite to fix the place didn’t work, it often jumped eastwards by a mile or more (I thought my Mouse was faulty - but NO)
Even when I added the 10 fig ref it ignored me. But then, quite suddenly, it begins to behave. THAT was yesterday. Today is OK, so far. Check my seen-from-space little nursery, correct to ten metres here - the location stayed all night!
https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/uk-and-ireland/view/observation/886007/
I will test it more in the next few days - at LAST I am warming up to posting
We have had a notification from google that some things to do with maps will be changing. I am not sure if the problem mentioned here is something that is google related or not but if it is then there is a chance it might go away when they make the changes or there may be other issues arise.
I seem to have solved the semi-random moving of map points. I use http://gridreferencefinder.com/ to find the location: then copy-and-paste the 12-figure grid ref into iSpot.
The location can - and often does - still move, but seldom more than (estimated) 20 m.
excellent and stable today, so far. One metre (ten fig) accuracy via app and satellite
A reminder of a workaround for the slow carousels.
Go to the ‘explore community’ menu, and click on ‘list’. This will be slow but will eventually show you a long list of the most recent observations.
Then right click on any observations you want to open and select ‘open link in new tab’.
This will keep your long list of recent observations and quickly open any you want to look at.
If you are only interested in say invertebrates then you can filter that long list to just inverts again that filter will take a while but once showing you can right click to open any you are interested in straight away.
The gallery also remains on screen but needs to load again if you want to go back more than one page. The observations also open in new tabs leaving the thumbnails on the screen.
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Who remembers when we had problems with photos hanging partly through the upload process? I’ve just had that again this morning. Trying to upload 2 photos to a new observation, the 2nd one repeatedly hung. Eventually managed to create the observation with just one photo and edited it to add the second.
That seems to be a rather intermittent issue, I had it for a little while one day then rest of the time it was ok for lots of other uploads. So far it always seems to resolve itself, possibly it is to do with load on other parts of the system apart from ispot.
I just added five observations without any hanging, but I’ve occasionally had it in the past. I usually just delete the offending photo and then reload it. It’s always worked the second time.
UK and Ireland Gallery observations are still taking an age to load and I often give up before they do. And, the process has to repeated each time I view an observation. The list view is equally unworkable.
You can avoid the need for repetition by opening the observation in a new tab. (Ctrl+left click, or select from the right click menu.)
Firefox opens the observations from the gallery in a new tab by default.
If you go to ‘Explore Community’ and then click on ‘gallery’, you should get a page of thumbnails which can be explored without the need to reload every t ime.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I’ve rejoined the party and can view observations.
The gallery is loading today. Thanks to whoever is working in the background and fixed the problem.
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Well done…
It is going as fast as it did a few years ago.
It must have cost a fortune for all those blue pellets to stop it going slug slow.
UK and Ireland Observations List has started to be slow to load again, perhaps since Saturday’s down time.
There was me thinking that it was going MUCH better. I have managed only once today to completely crash the site