TheWoodenRadio

For a few years I've been getting many alerts when a new Traditional Cache is published. I'm using an iPhone on ATT. My many I mean they come in every 2 minutes, sometimes amounting to 60 or more of the same message. They usually were coming in on Saturday or Sunday, but now it's Wednesday and I received over 100 repeats. Trouble shooting steps I've taken include putting the phone in 'airplane mode' for a couple hours or more, nothing comes in over the wifi channel. But when I turn the phone back on it gets flooded with he stored messages. That tells me it's not between ATT and me, but between "GC.com" and ATT. anybody else have similar problems. It's been going on for years, iPhone 4s, and 6 as well as with all IOS versions since the the 4s was new. It's getting to be annoying and all the GC tech support replies is lame excuses and telling me to turn off alerts.

Sounds like an excuse to me, not a reason. Can you come up with a reason??? I worked in IT for quite a while, though I don't know what you use for Forum software most things like this have configuration files. If not it's about time to get some that are configurable so that users can read the postings. First way to test it is "Can your mother or grandmother read it easily. If not change it!! Yes I know it seems fashionable to make web pages almost unreadable. To me it just looks like you really don't want readers to read it. Or you're too cheep to send *BLACK* bits - but it doesn't cost any more to do it. Light gray is not good !

Everyone says to go to "The Forum". Why bother? The text in the forums is way too low a contrast to be easily readable. Use a higher contrast!!!! If the printer in Jeremmy's office put out stuff as light as the forum posts did I bet he would scream at a lacky to get a new cartridge. As it is now it makes me think GC is too broke to send out *BLACK* bits. A dammed shame, as I premium member I expect better, I paid for those bits. p.s. It doesn't cost any more to send black bits than dingy gray bits.

I'd say YES put in the GC. Unless the cacher has an keyboard that matches the cache name it is hard to look up by name. I should be heading there in the spring. Now all I need is a way to get topo maps for Iceland on my 60CSx. What do Icelanders use? Mike TheWoodenRadio

I don't the LIKE feature, but most of the rest I do.(even if they are not explained very well) I don't like FB's privacy policy history and don't want to support them in any way. FB has shown they lack any integrity in the past regarding user privacy, The new announced changes haven't been proven yet, and what's going to stop FB from reverting to their old devious ways next month or next year (or even next week)!? I'll CHILL when I have the option to have a "Like" button on my cache pages. If you want the Like button to appear pm your cache pages, great for you. I don't want it to be on mine! I'll disable any cache of mine that has that button without my opt-in approval, starting tomorrow. Then I'll drop my premium membership on the next renewal until that is fixed.

If the FaceBook "Like" button is not removed or at least made an Opt-In choice I will first remove my cache listings and next time I will NOT renew my Premium Membership, Why? FaceBook has demonstrated that it does not respect anyone's privacy, and with the constant changes in it's privacy policy has shown a definite disregard for the user's feelings. I have canceled my FB account, and don't trust anything FB says about changing. I don't want to encourage anyone else to use FB either. So if the "Like" button isn't removed by tomorrow I will disable all my caches (with the one exception of a "Learn to cache event" in a couple weeks. After that No More caches.

13764: Quick "like it" for geocaches Added Facebook "Like" functionality to cache pages How do I turn off this on my caches? I do NOT want to be associated in any way with FB. It took a bit of work to cancel my account, and I want to keep it that way. The Cache page also also broke the display of "GC VIP List" I want that back

On the home page for Geocaching.com there is a small section that shows "There are 596867 active caches worldwide." and the number of cachees logged in the past week, and the number of cachers that made those finds. I would find it more interesting to see the number of cachers that have logged some minimum number of caches over a longer time period. This would eliminate people that try it once and don't come back. Let's say the number of cachers that have found 5 over the past 3 or maybe even 6 months. I wouldn't expect stats like this to be run daily, maybe even once a week would be sufficient. Oh, keep the short time numbers like now, but just add the new one. This would show what the real activity is like and reduce the 'noise' numbers not only from one-time 'try it out' but also would even out the low numbers that result from weather (it's been over 95 here most of last week), vacation (when the family says -'be with us!!', business travel (and the boss is along, or company policy dictates free time- or lack of it), etc. mike thewoodenradio