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Исправлена ошибка в «Поиске энтомологов» для пользователей, кто ранее не регистрировался в этом разделе (1) Peter Khramov

В этом случае у вас могла выходить белая страница вместо нормальной. Сейчас поправил. Ах, да. Господа, сообщайте, если увидите какие-то ...

10.04.2025 13:36 Peter Khramov

В этом случае у вас могла выходить белая страница вместо нормальной. Сейчас ...

Another bug fixed in Google Maps :--) (1) Peter Khramov

If you have been seeing the map for the last few days, but without markers on it, refresh the page now, the markers will be visible, everything is working correctly now. And, as usual: if you see that something is wrong on the Insecta.pro website, ...

08.04.2025 12:48 Peter Khramov

If you have been seeing the map for the last few days, but without markers on it, refresh the page now, the markers will be visible, everything is ...

Fixed a bug on the password recovery page (1) Peter Khramov

Recently, users may have had problems with password recovery on the Insecta.pro website. Now the error has been fixed, the password recovery service works correctly. Please, if you see that something on the website is not working properly or there ...

07.04.2025 20:54 Peter Khramov

Recently, users may have had problems with password recovery on the Insecta.pro website. Now the error has been fixed, the password recovery service ...

The Insecta.pro website works even faster (1) Peter Khramov

I changed the hardware and part of the software of the Insecta.pro website. Now its pages will open faster in general, and most importantly - A) Even if some page opens for several seconds (i.e. slowly), this will not be repeated for several pages ...

31.03.2025 13:32 Peter Khramov

I changed the hardware and part of the software of the Insecta.pro website. Now its pages will open faster in general, and most importantly - A) Even ...

The Google Maps technical issue on the Insecta.pro was fixed (1) Peter Khramov

For some time you could see maps on the site in a "muted" form with the "For development purposes only" inscription. Now the situation has been corrected, full maps are available again. PS. If any of the users have the opportunity to provide a ...

30.03.2025 15:21 Peter Khramov

For some time you could see maps on the site in a "muted" form with the "For development purposes only" inscription. Now the situation has been ...

Moscow Insect Fair: New section on the Insecta.pro Website (1) Peter Khramov

The "official" section of the Moscow Entomological Exhibition and Fair is open on Insecta.pro. You can find full information about the event, view photos and videos from the previous exhibitions, ask questions, leave your comments and ...

02.03.2025 15:47 Peter Khramov

The "official" section of the Moscow Entomological Exhibition and Fair is open on Insecta.pro. You can find full information about the event, view ...

If you need to upload a lot of photos to Insecta.pro website (1) Peter Khramov

Let me remind you that if you have a lot of photos (hundreds) that you don't mind posting on the Insecta.pro website, you don't have to do it manually. Contact me by email or PM, and I'll do a significant part of this work for you. Likewise, if ...

31.12.2024 15:41 Peter Khramov

Let me remind you that if you have a lot of photos (hundreds) that you don't mind posting on the Insecta.pro website, you don't have to do it ...

Новое поле в «Поиске энтомологов» (1) Peter Khramov

A new field has been added to the Search for Entomologists questionnaire — a note to the region. Now, when registering in search, you can specify your city (if it is not in the main list), write an additional city, or add any note about your ...

10.12.2024 14:19 Peter Khramov

A new field has been added to the Search for Entomologists questionnaire — a note to the region. Now, when registering in search, you can specify ...

«Поиск энтомологов» работает в полном объеме! (6) Peter Khramov

Previously, the Search for Entomologists section was only for data entry. Now the actual search part is also open. Those who have registered in the search engine can search for entomologists of the Russian Federation by taxon and by city/region ...

07.12.2024 20:41 Peter Khramov

Improved display of the list of taxa to choose from on small screens (primarily relevant for vertical phone screens).

Insecta.pro maps: filter by taxon (1) Peter Khramov

Previously, you could only filter markers on the maps by species. Now you can do this for any supraspecific taxon (the map will show the markers of all its daughter taxa). For example, this is the map with markers for all beetles. And this is the ...

05.12.2024 22:33 Peter Khramov

Previously, you could only filter markers on the maps by species. Now you can do this for any supraspecific taxon (the map will show the markers of ...

Починена ссылка и страница «Мои подписки» (1) Peter Khramov

Previously, the link in the Community and the content of the "My Subscriptions" page may have been incomplete - in terms of photos and comments to them. Now fixed, everything is working correctly, the page https://insecta.pro/ru/community/my you can ...

30.11.2024 13:48 Peter Khramov

Previously, the link in the Community and the content of the "My Subscriptions" page may have been incomplete - in terms of photos and comments to ...

We fixed an error in displaying the website in the "gray" color scheme (1) Peter Khramov

Registered users of Insecta.pro can change the color scheme (in what colors to display the interface of the website pages) in Account Settings. Recently, there was an error when users who selected the "Gray" scheme still saw the website in the ...

24.11.2024 21:25 Peter Khramov

Registered users of Insecta.pro can change the color scheme (in what colors to display the interface of the website pages) in Account Settings. ...

Импортированы и переведны последние свежие сообщения с форума. Обновлена страница «О сайте». (6) Peter Khramov

We start 2 weeks of increased activity. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow there will be emails with the good news. The forum has been moved and disassembled, and the site is ready for all the improvements that were planned. Appeal: let's be active ...

23.11.2024 21:22 Aleksandr Dymchenko

This message and everything below it were not moved: http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=458588&view=findpost&p=1701525 In fact, the entire ...

The Community/Forum section has become more convenient (1) Peter Khramov

1. The main community/forum page loads noticeably faster than the last couple of weeks. We will try to speed it up even more (it still lags behind the loading speed of other site pages). 2. The information on the forum section pages (topic lists) ...

11.11.2024 23:31 Peter Khramov

1. The main community/forum page loads noticeably faster than the last couple of weeks. We will try to speed it up even more (it still lags behind ...

Improved scaling of images in the Forum/Community (1) Peter Khramov

After one of the changes, images in the forum/community topics stopped being reduced correctly. Now the situation is fixed. By default, images are shown in a reduced size (408 pixels), and when you hover mouse pointer over them, they are ...

11.11.2024 19:50 Peter Khramov

After one of the changes, images in the forum/community topics stopped being reduced correctly. Now the situation is fixed. By default, images are ...

Система поиска энтомологов (1) Peter Khramov

The search engine for entomologists (previously announced as "Entomologists in your city") starts working on the site. The system is designed to allow you to search for entomologists and people who are interested in insects (specialists, amateurs, ...

10.11.2024 18:20 Peter Khramov

The search engine for entomologists (previously announced as "Entomologists in your city") starts working on the site. The system is designed to ...

Full-text search from Yandex installed, minor glitches in photo editing and inaccuracies in translations fixed (1) Peter Khramov

1. Now you can search the site not only by the name of taxa, but also by any text information. Enter the required query in the window at the top right of any page and click "Find". If you are searching for a non-taxon (or if you are searching for a ...

07.11.2024 22:05 Peter Khramov

1. Now you can search the site not only by the name of taxa, but also by any text information. Enter the required query in the window at the top ...

New sections in Community/Forum. Additional translation of forum comments and translation of notes and geography of photos in the gallery (1) Peter Khramov

In the Community/Forum section, new sections have been introduced — "Literature and Web Resources" with announcements and discussions of literature, as well as websites, and "Offline Events" with announcements of new exhibitions and offline ...

06.11.2024 21:47 Peter Khramov

In the Community/Forum section, new sections have been introduced — "Literature and Web Resources" with announcements and discussions of ...

The website contains English translations (if needed) of most Community/Forum messages (1) Peter Khramov

Most of the non-English comments and topics are translated to English now. The quality of the translation will not always be perfect, so if you notice something unclear in the text, just ask what the author meant or ask me to correct the translation.

31.10.2024 21:13 Peter Khramov

Most of the non-English comments and topics are translated to English now. The quality of the translation will not always be perfect, so if you ...

The forum structure has been reworked. New sections have been added, and many topics have been moved to them (1) Peter Khramov

New sections have been introduced and old ones have been adjusted. Insect identification, Colleagues search, Education/Job search/Vacancies, Congratulations and... Obituaries. Unfortunately, the last section already has 59 topics... Many topics ...

24.10.2024 20:33 Peter Khramov

New sections have been introduced and old ones have been adjusted. Insect identification, Colleagues search, Education/Job search/Vacancies, ...

Some photo descriptions have been corrected, and incorrect group bindings have been fixed (1) Peter Khramov

Over the past few days, information about the caller was displayed incorrectly for about 20 photos. This is fixed. I remind you that if you see in the Personal account that you can't correct the taxon in your photo, it means that it was defined by ...

22.10.2024 18:46 Peter Khramov

Over the past few days, information about the caller was displayed incorrectly for about 20 photos. This is fixed. I remind you that if you see in ...

Fixed sorting/ordering errors (Gallery and Catalog sections) (1) Peter Khramov

In some cases, sorting/ordering in these sections could previously work incorrectly, and the values ​​of additional parameters of the selection could turn off when changing the sorting. Now the situation is fixed. Let me remind you: if you see ...

12.10.2024 17:48 Peter Khramov

In some cases, sorting/ordering in these sections could previously work incorrectly, and the values ​​of additional parameters of the selection ...

We fixed bad situation with photo captions for insect species that are not yet in the website database (1) Peter Khramov

Before, when the author of a photo entered the name of a species (or other taxon) in the photo information, and the taxon was not yet in the site database, only the admin and moderators saw this taxon name, and for everyone else the photo looked ...

10.10.2024 22:09 Peter Khramov

Before, when the author of a photo entered the name of a species (or other taxon) in the photo information, and the taxon was not yet in the site ...

First results of integration/transfer/duplication of Molbiol at Insecta.pro (1) Peter Khramov

During September, I will have little time to work with Insecta, so I will announce here the results of the summer and plans for the fall: All topics/messages have been moved. But those that have appeared since the transfer were not transferred yet. ...

31.08.2024 0:34 Peter Khramov

During September, I will have little time to work with Insecta, so I will announce here the results of the summer and plans for the fall: All ...

Further adaptation of the website for mobile devices (1) Peter Khramov

The second stage of the website adaptation for mobile devices is completed. I think everything that was reasonable to do within the current design version has been done. Nevertheless, if you see any glitches/shortcomings when opening the pages of ...

25.08.2024 23:13 Peter Khramov

The second stage of the website adaptation for mobile devices is completed. I think everything that was reasonable to do within the current design ...

Auto applying the properties "taxon", "author of identification", "precision of identification" to all photos in a group when one of the photos is changed (1) Peter Khramov

Now, if a moderator changes the insect taxon affiliation of a photo from the website gallery, changes the author of the identification and/or the precision of the identification, then all these changes are automatically applied to all photos of the ...

14.08.2024 20:46 Peter Khramov

Now, if a moderator changes the insect taxon affiliation of a photo from the website gallery, changes the author of the identification and/or the ...

Now in comments on Insecta.pro you can use photos from the website gallery, simply by specifying the photo number (1) Peter Khramov

We are expanding the functionality of double "aka" (two @ symbols before and after the desired section of the comment text). Now, if you place the number of a photo from the website gallery between double "aka" symbols, the desired image will ...

12.08.2024 23:00 Peter Khramov

We are expanding the functionality of double "aka" (two @ symbols before and after the desired section of the comment text). Now, if you place the ...

Forum again (1) Peter Khramov

All topic titles have been translated into English. The most serious errors in Russian topic titles have been corrected. Garbage, empty topics, as well as topics that have nothing to do with insects (even at the "smoking room" level) have been ...

08.08.2024 20:19 Peter Khramov

All topic titles have been translated into English. The most serious errors in Russian topic titles have been corrected. Garbage, empty topics, as ...

Insecta.pro and the entomological forum Integration (10) Peter Khramov

Integration is coming to an active phase. An email newsletter should soon be sent to users of the entomological forum with explanations and individual links to establish a connection between accounts on Insecta and ento-forum. In this topic, you can ...

07.07.2024 13:25 Peter Khramov

I remind you that the opening of forum sections for unregistered users is gradual, after clearing the corresponding section at least once. All ...

Another color scheme for the website (1) Peter Khramov

In addition to the usual and contrasting, there is now one more color scheme - gray. If you want the colors on the background parts of the website pages to become even lighter - choose the "Gray" scheme in your account settings.

22.05.2024 21:33 Peter Khramov

In addition to the usual and contrasting, there is now one more color scheme - gray. If you want the colors on the background parts of the website ...

We posted the first fully functional section of the migrated forum (1) Peter Khramov

Posted the first section of the forum. For this purpose, "Travel and Expedition Reports" was selected — it has few topics, but quite a lot of posts (more than 22,000), so you can check different publications. You can see what happened here: ...

14.05.2024 13:53 Peter Khramov

Posted the first section of the forum. For this purpose, "Travel and Expedition Reports" was selected — it has few topics, but quite a lot of posts ...

Recognition of species/taxa by file names of uploaded photos has become more convenient (1) Peter Khramov

When uploading photos to the website (both by one file and many files in the zip-archives), the system tries to recognize the species in the photo (as well as subspecies and upper taxa) by file name. Previously, the system was quite demanding, now ...

09.04.2024 21:13 Peter Khramov

When uploading photos to the website (both by one file and many files in the zip-archives), the system tries to recognize the species in the photo ...

We changed timeouts for the author to edit some data for his photos on the website (1) Peter Khramov

Now you can edit the identification field (linking a photo to an insect taxon) for an unlimited amount of time — if there are no comments from other users on the photo. But if there are such comments, the possibility of changing the taxon in the ...

28.03.2024 15:34 Peter Khramov

Now you can edit the identification field (linking a photo to an insect taxon) for an unlimited amount of time — if there are no comments from ...

The website functioning updates (19) Peter Khramov

We are simultaneously working on improving the website in several areas: full redesign (including mobile-friendly version), Google Maps update, Acceleration of the webpages (some of them are too slow now) and we upload new text and graphic data. We ...

08.02.2024 13:23 Peter Khramov

We updated the design of comments for photos, species, superspecies taxa, as well as topics in the Community/forum. Now the comments are more ...

References labeling (including PM) was updated (1) Peter Khramov

The species page now displays more complete information about the sources of information (references) - for synonyms, subspecies and descriptions (previously not all of it was shown). Personal communications are now indicated each with its own code ...

06.02.2024 19:45 Peter Khramov

The species page now displays more complete information about the sources of information (references) - for synonyms, subspecies and descriptions ...

Autosuggestions by synonyms and local species names when uploading new photos or editing previously uploaded photos (1) Peter Khramov

Earlier, when filling the "taxon" field in the photo upload form (or when editing "taxon" field of a previously uploaded photo), autosuggestions worked only for the main taxon name (full correspondence or incomplete correspondence) and did not ...

28.12.2023 21:56 Peter Khramov

Earlier, when filling the "taxon" field in the photo upload form (or when editing "taxon" field of a previously uploaded photo), autosuggestions ...

New map mark radius indicating glitch was fixed (1) Peter Khramov

Previously, when setting a new map point, the "Radius" value might not be picked up, and it had to be entered additionally on the mark editing page. Now this problem has been fixed. You can to specify the radius when setting the new point, and it ...

18.12.2023 20:54 Peter Khramov

Previously, when setting a new map point, the "Radius" value might not be picked up, and it had to be entered additionally on the mark editing page. ...

Linking photos to map marks, unlinking and transferring photos from one map mark to another (1) Peter Khramov

Now you can link your photos to map marks on the map section not only on the photo page, but also on the page for editing the photos you have uploaded. On the edit page a new text field has now been added for each photo: “Map mark”. If you've ...

06.12.2023 20:34 Peter Khramov

Now you can link your photos to map marks on the map section not only on the photo page, but also on the page for editing the photos you have ...

Now you can change the color scheme of the site (1) Peter Khramov

If you do not like the standard color design of the Insecta.pro website and/or if the standard colors do not have enough contrast between the text and the background for you — now you can switch to alternative colors. And if you get tired of ...

01.12.2023 21:35 Peter Khramov

If you do not like the standard color design of the Insecta.pro website and/or if the standard colors do not have enough contrast between the text ...

Market: exchange, sale and donation of dry (collectible) insects on the site (9) Peter Khramov

Start a new section - Market, which will be collected suggestions from our customers on the sale, exchange, donation (now) and purchase (in the future) of dry material - Insect entomological collections. Main chips 1. Selection of items for ...

01.12.2023 14:13 Peter Khramov

Good afternoon. There was a pause in the active work of the website, and now a major reform of its technical part and content of the website is ...

Many minor errors have been fixed in the designation of the Author and Year in taxa, as well as in the naming of synonyms (1) Peter Khramov

During November, a lot of work was carried out to correct errors in the designation of the Author and Year for species and other taxa, as well as in the names of synonyms. The changes affected about 37,000 taxa. And yes, the "comma issue" has also ...

01.12.2023 1:36 Peter Khramov

During November, a lot of work was carried out to correct errors in the designation of the Author and Year for species and other taxa, as well as in ...

Maps for the species you've selected (1) Peter Khramov

Now, on the species page, in the "Distribution" section, it is indicated how many marks are available in the "Maps" section for the species. By clicking on the link, you can go to the maps, where only marks related to this species are displayed. For ...

25.11.2023 22:27 Peter Khramov

Now, on the species page, in the "Distribution" section, it is indicated how many marks are available in the "Maps" section for the species. By ...

Increasing the size of the insects photos on the website (2) Peter Khramov

The size limit for the photo on the website is 1600 x 1080 pixels now. This means that if you upload a larger photo, it will be reduced to 1600px width or 1080px height (depending on the proportions of the picture). Previously, this limitation was ...

02.11.2023 22:21 Peter Khramov

We will increase the size of previously uploaded photos to the same 1600x1080 (for those images that were larger than 1280x800 when uploaded).

The new server for the Insecta.pro website (4) Peter Khramov

Today, the wesite is being moved to a new, more powerful server. As a result, the website pages will work even faster. But in the meantime, do not upload any new data (photos, dots, comments, descriptions, etc.). As soon as the move is over, I will ...

26.09.2023 23:06 Peter Khramov

The website server is good as new now, the information can be uploaded to the website again. And the website will work even faster. If you notice any ...

The website pages speed (1) Peter Khramov

From 20th to 21st of August we carried out some works to increase the speed of the website pages loading (earlier some pages would load for about 10 seconds, not mentioning bots raids when things were getting even worse). Now overall page loading is ...

22.08.2023 11:41 Peter Khramov

From 20th to 21st of August we carried out some works to increase the speed of the website pages loading (earlier some pages would load for about 10 ...

Insecta.pro is mobile-friendly but not enough (1) Peter Khramov

The website is mobile-friendly only in part (main blocks). We'll make full mobile-friendly redesign (with all design elements) this summer.

16.07.2023 17:26 Peter Khramov

The website is mobile-friendly only in part (main blocks). We'll make full mobile-friendly redesign (with all design elements) this summer.

New local names (2) Peter Khramov

We upload hundreds of new local insects names to the website database and we change searching algorithms for the local names. So, the manual uploading of the local names one by one is temporary unavailable. We'll turn the manual uploading function ...

25.06.2023 14:32 Peter Khramov

You can add local species names again.

The maps are in development mode but it's temporary (2) Peter Khramov

To see at least a shaded map click Ok at Google message over the map block.

18.06.2023 20:56 Peter Khramov

The problem is solved.

New: Premaid Selections (1) Peter Khramov

Earlier it was possible to select species in the catalog by general parameters only. Now we have premade selections. Our curators make and expand these selections by particular criteria. Such criteria can be for example locations (not on the level ...

10.06.2023 20:41 Peter Khramov

Earlier it was possible to select species in the catalog by general parameters only. Now we have premade selections. Our curators make and expand ...

Species sorting (Catalog section) (1) Peter Khramov

The species at Catalog section are sorted by last update (not by name) — if you didn't change any default parameters.

09.06.2023 21:25 Peter Khramov

The species at Catalog section are sorted by last update (not by name) — if you didn't change any default parameters.

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