barefootguru
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This is ongoing, usually involving Safari.
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Signal's Labyrinth (Memory Lane)
barefootguru replied to Max and 99's topic in General geocaching topics
Sounds like they’re optional — no souvenir or other memento, just some bonus points — so go find lots of caches for points instead 🤷♂️ -
iPhone app v1.3.21 not loading labs on map
barefootguru replied to lioness99a's topic in Playing Adventures
Same issue & fix. -
Groundspeak have been aware of this for more than 6 months, see also: I just give up and open Cachly.
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I reported the connection error back in July 🙄
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I’ve been getting the same error in desktop Safari.
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Every 10th page or so I browse on geocaching.com, Safari will give me ‘Safari cannot open the page because the network connection was lost.’ A refresh will load the page fine (occasionally a 2nd refresh). This is on both mobile and desktop, latest OSs. geocaching.com is the only site it happens on. Seems to be any page, including caches and owner dashboard.
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Adventure Lab stages incorrectly counted as finds?
barefootguru replied to bneiman's topic in Website
They also used to be restricted to megas and felt like more work for your smiley, not littering the map and collected with minimal effort. -
What are the New Attributes numbers
barefootguru replied to craft40's topic in General geocaching topics
You can download a GPX from the cache page, open it in a text editor, and see both the IDs and their descriptions used by the cache. -
Macs have come with 2 button mice for more than a decade. In Safari preferences, go onto the Advanced tab, and select Show Develop menu. As well as adding the Develop menu, you can now right-click on the page and select Show Page Source. I don’t know of an easy way to show the background image, but if you go into the Develop menu and select Show Page Resources, you can see all the images.
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I’ve experienced this with Safari on macOS for years when viewing a cache. This is the only site which will turn the browser to molasses if a page is left open for a day. No extensions.
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There has to be an easier way/Mystery & Multi
barefootguru replied to Cali9-1-1's topic in General geocaching topics
Can you find another player in your community who has found/solved most of the caches, and ask them where there are vacant spots? -
I didn't realise that, but just checked with our local New Zealand reviewer who said:
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A new device/browser I can understand, but IP addresses change all the time.
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Why do I have to re-OK cookie usage every month or so? It’s particularly painful on a phone, as the accept button is minuscule. Using Safari.
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The advantage of submitting an unpublished cache to reserve the spot, is the reviewer doesn’t have to remember about your cache every time he publishes a subsequent cache — it will appear automatically on his map. Similarly if you have more than 1 reviewer for the area.
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One of the local ones here is 10 locations. You can complete it with an hour’s walk.
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I’ll tell you that at the same time I tell you a whole Adventure counts as 1 find. (I did 6 stages of an Adventure and received 30 points.)
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GPS Performance Across Range of Smartphones
barefootguru replied to kceratops's topic in General geocaching topics
iPhones have definitely improved in accuracy in that time. In addition to GPS, GLONASS, cell towers, and Wi-Fi to help positioning, newer models also do Galileo and QZSS. -
The release notes say they've just fixed the bug between stages where the location wouldn't update. I agree the UI is terrible — it's hard to work out the path between different pages/parts of the app. And at the start the fact you have to click on the map to get going is completely hidden.
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I’ve seen that on a cache on my watch list. Given the owner is inactive and the log was TFTC, an armchair boosting of numbers is the most likely (but not only) explanation.