[Release Notes (Website: Links now point to new search results) - April 20, 2021]

3 hours ago, ChriBli said:

You can see archived caches in find lists and hide lists (yours/other's). See picture. But if you remove "you have found", then "active and archived" disappears as well. You can not apply that filter to a general search. I'm pretty sure this was the way it was before too, althogh I think I saw someone reporting that it was briefly possible to filter for archived with the new search. For some reason I can not understand Groundspeak don't want us to search for archived caches.

 

You can search for a word or part of a word in the cache name though, see the other picture. That's a search for all caches in Uppsala, Sweden that I have not found with "fågel" in the name. Not sure if it was ever possible to search for words in the description, I have never done that.

That's great, but of course it doesn't really solve the issue. There are multiple reasons you might want to see archived caches, yet not know who hid them, and whether you found them should not matter if the goal is to see what archived caches might be worth resurrecting with new owners/containers/etc.

I guess I'll have to try this out when the time comes. Thanks for the info!

 

[Release Notes (Website: Links now point to new search results) - April 20, 2021]

I have not gone through 6 pages of comments, so forgive me if this has already been answered.

I notice that now I can't see "archived" caches in the search, nor can I search by a word in the cache name or description. I'm also not seeing archived caches on any of my lists (map view, etc.) as I did before. I think this is a major deficiency in the new search (in addition to the other cachers' comments about design and white space; it would have been easily possible to revamp the search code yet retain the same results display format). I know of some puzzle caches that will be impacted by this change, and it will also impact the ability of users to place new caches to replace older archived caches that they might have liked. If there is some search option that I am missing, I would like to find out about it. Thanks for any help/assistance.