Hi everyone!
It’s been a while since I wrote one of these troubleshooting articles- and in this case I wonder if this is a bug I’m seeing. Thank you @AdamGT for encouraging me to share this qualm to the rest of the Local Guides. Below I will share details of a potential issue I’m seeing regarding photos and videos uploaded via Captions, and I wanted to do a quick pulse check to see if anyone else is experiencing this.
Issue
My hypothesis is that any photos/videos uploaded via Captions are not entirely being included in the count on your Maps profile page (which is the screen you first see when you open a user’s Map profile- left hand side of screenshot below). The issue manifests itself when viewing your numbers when not signed in.
Data
The following data is current as of 3/31/2024.
Below are the numbers when viewing my Profile.
Photos (not signed in) |
19,575 |
---|---|
Photos (signed in) |
20,081 |
Below are the numbers when viewing the Profile Contributions page. The numbers are the same both when signed in and not signed in.
Photos |
17,699 |
|
---|---|---|
Videos |
2,370 |
Total Photos = 20,069 (=17699 + 2370) |
Captions |
669 |
Details
On an incognito Chrome desktop window (on my main Profile Contributions page, not signed in)- it shows I have 19,575 photos which is the sum of photos and videos I have that are public.
Then, in that same window (not signed in), I head over to Maps Contributions Data and see I have 17,699 photos and 2,370 videos. That amounts to 20,069.
If I add the number of captions/photos I have (669) to that 19,575 number- the total gets closer to that 20,068 number.
That makes me think that if we upload some of our photos/videos with the new captions/post update feature, that count isn’t being entirely included in the count of photos on the Profile Contributions Page (when viewed by others).
The discrepancy is not too much of a big deal in my mind, but just a random thought I had.
tl;dr
Let me know fellow Guides who are using the Captions feature to photos/videos: are you also seeing this discrepancy of photos count as well on your Profile page (when not signed in)?