Throsbyonchurch

For the past couple of months I have noticed the web site isn't instantly updating the icons. Today I noticed the app hasn't updated the icons to yellow found smiles from yesterday. Yesterday I made draft notes of my finds through the app. Got home and logged the drafts through the website and changed to found. Today the app map shows some of the finds as unfound. The logs are present in the app and a smile appears for some and not others. A refresh doesnt do anything. The website seems to lag for a couple of days in changing write notes to found. I have refreshed my browser and cleared cookies etc etc and its hasn't helped.

I just want ask Groundspeak to PLEASE change the gallery back to the way it was originally, with only cache log images in the gallery. I love to go the extra mile and write logs for the trackables and as much as I can include photos. However, if I log a cache and upload a photo and then log multiple trackables in hand and upload the same image to each one my gallery is populated with multiple copies of the same image. I really hate it. Plus, many trackables don't have an image of itself in the trackable's image gallery, so I try to take and upload a photo so that other cachers can see it in case there is any doubt over what it looks like. I have been in that situation before. So your own gallery is then populated with trackable images which I personally don't think is needed. If other cachers prefer the gallery like this then maybe we could have an option to switch off photos from the trackables gallery showing up in the cache image gallery. Thank you.

I usually keep an eye out in caches for trackables and make contact with someone I suspect might have picked up the trackable and try to help them to get it back into circulation. Those new cachers referred to are sometimes people who seek out nice trackables to pinch for whatever reason. I have also started placing trackables in a little bag with a printed card attached indicating to all cachers what is required. The card has the trackables name, reference number, tracking number, mission and on the reverse side advises people not to log the trackable and not keep the trackable but place it in another cache. I hope that will help in the quest to keep them on the road.

I quickly learned not to send out trackables I don't want to go missing. On the webpage I have a nice photo of the coin or trackable. I replace it and with an engraved dog tag and attach a cheap hitchhiker. If it goes missing I can send out another. Everyone benefits. I have noticed that if it's too pretty it is likely to go missing. I love seeing nice coins etc but dislike it when they go missing, it's very sad, but if the alternative is a dog tag then I am happy with that, it's just a bit of extra fun to add to the game. It shouldn't matter to you as the owner as you won't see what it looks like after it's in the wild.

Thanks for the comments, I never thought of storing geocaches on a card and has given me much to consider.