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mustakorppi

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  1. Project-GC lets you do a wildcard searches like "germany GC*33" will get you caches in Germany that end in 33.
  2. Hey wait, that's a link outside geocaching.com. Stay safe everyone.
  3. I think you are missing the point that everything you said in this message comes at the cost of usability. This warning has no benefit for your users: we come to geocaching.com for the user-generated content. If enjoying that content means clicking a link to certitudes.org, then we either click that link or have no reason to come to geocaching.com in the first place. No one is blindly trusting anything on the internet, including geocaching.com. But how would your internet experience be like if every site you visit did this for their external links?
  4. As you already have a list of allowable websites and API partners, why do you feel this disclaimer is necessary for sites you've already vetted to at least some degree?
  5. I've just completely switched to Waze when opening navigation from the official app- (it's way better for my area anyway). I haven't tested as extensively, but I can't remember having this issue with Google Maps when starting navigation from Cachly.
  6. Caches exist that by are unsolvable by design if "solvable" is defined as what the current rules allow. Caches that are "solvable" now may become "unsolvable" by a future rule change, even if the cache itself stayed the same.
  7. I think that if a puzzle genuinely becomes unsolvable (e.g. the jigidi.com deletes all puzzles linked to from geocaching.com), it should be considered the same as if a waypoint had gone missing. NM followed by NA if the CO doesn't take action. Some leeway can be given for older caches that might have been created under different rules, depending on the situation. If a puzzle simply becomes harder than it used to be, that's not a problem deserving of a NM. Giving hints for the puzzle is not part of CO maintencance expectations. Whether people keep finding the mystery/multi cache shouldn't be relevant. Found it logs are not evidence of a cache being solvable and following the cache type's rules.
  8. That meaning is not descibed in OED 2nd edition (which predates Harry Potter). It has three entries for "muggle": first as a Kentish word for "tail" (cited examples from 13th century), second as an unknown meaning with cited examples from 17th century (this meaning doesn't seem to refer to a person either), and third as US slang for "marijuana cigarette" (earliest citations from 1926).
  9. Thanks, I being was lazy and didn't check for rules in the help center. That said, it seems this is being interpreted fairly differently. E.g. if a CO says you get coordinates from a jigidi, is that enough? Or does the reviewer verify the jigidi actually gives the correct coordinates and that the jigidi is discoverable? Is there some part of the world where FTF hunters don't regularly run into broken puzzles? Or puzzles where searching the 2 miles around the bogus coordinates is the most viable solve path?
  10. Is there some reviewers-only guideline that requires reviewers to verify a puzzle is solvable, or is that something the reviewers in your region just decided to do/keep doing? Asking because this doesn't seem to be what the reviewers in my area do.
  11. These threads are talking about the guidelines 10 years ago. It's not in the current guidelines. Maybe it should be, and reviewers from some regions apparently act like it is, but it isn't.
  12. Clearly a top 10 list of ideas for a new years resolution by <random blog writer> is not something to be taken lightly. Especially if my eternal soul is at stake
  13. Please consider hiring a community manager. The way this reads is that you (Groundspeak) have given up on your own forums. It's not some law of nature that a discussion forum needs to be dominated by jaded regulars.
  14. Is 4 degrees the difference between magnetic and true north in your area, or is it the difference between magnetic north NOW vs magnetic north when the cache was hidden? In my area, declination is now 9 but it increases by .2 degrees per year. I personally don't think that's reasonable knowledge to expect from the cacher on a multi cache.
  15. Just to clarify, the context of my question is a person with GPSr in the field, who finds a bearing/distance to the next waypoint. The bearing has been calculated X years ago. Can they actually get to the next waypoint using just their GPSr and the information found in the field and the cache description? I don't know much about caching with a GPSr as I always use my phone. I know my eTrex can calculate a projection but I don't think it even shows the publication date (or hide date) of the cache. It has a selection between magnetic and true, but I don't think it has "magnetic X years ago".
  16. There are plenty of apps for phones that do coordinate projection, e.g Cachly and Cachetoolbox on the iPhone. Or you can go to the same online calculators as you would on your computer. Out of curiosity, if a 20 year old cache used a bearing relative to the magnetic north over a long-ish distance, would it still be findable following a projection done on GPSr?
  17. Something seems to be wrong with email alerts as well.
  18. Why would you even think about doing that? I thought you delete your lab finds.
  19. Multiple choice means no more problems with typos on the phone, no more problems with typos from the AL creator, no more guessing the correct inflection of the answer etc. Yes, it also makes cheating easier but as someone wise once said "It is better to focus on those players who are playing your game and forget others."
  20. Since when have Adventure Labs® been called geocaches? In the platform vision they were two distinct things.
  21. For me geocaching is a sidehobby (that has gotten out of control lately...) for cycling, so there have been some needlessly sketchy situations when going after a cache in cycling shoes. Flat MTB shoes are usually ok, but metal cleats on rock unsurprisingly have no grip. Regardless of footwear choice, the risk of injury that would put a stop to my main hobby is definitely on my mind when geocaching.
  22. Already reported, please see here for the official lack of response:
  23. You were given a clue more than a year ago. How much progress did you make? I get that it can be daunting when starting from zero, but did you even try? If not, someone offered to create a service for doing it in the last thread: did you talk with them, tell them it's something that would really help you out?
  24. If there's any update you haven't done, I suggest trying that. I got rid of that error on my ipad's Safari after updating to iOS 15. Not that it makes HQ breaking stuff like this ok, but you know...
  25. That rule is supposed to be about the maintenance of physical caches. There's no maintenance problem if it's a Wherigo with nothing to do at the starting coordinates except go there to make the cassette give you the coordinates for the cache that's near your home location. No idea how much reviewers actually allow you to push the envelope with this kind of silliness.
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