ertyu
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The behaviour has changed and the current behaviour is quite undesirable. The date used to default to todays date and if you changed it, it would retain that change for a few hours it seemed. Now if I change the date it seems to retain that date for days afterwards and across computers and browsers. I constantly enter logs on the wrong days now.
Hopefully this behaviour can be reverted.
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I'm likely in the minority, but my preference would be to do away with Challenge caches altogether. With all due respect to some of the fine ones out there that I've enjoyed or worked on, I, personally, wouldn't miss any of them at all, and would enjoy being able to log a cache as found once I've actually found it and signed myself in.
I think they would probably work better as part of Challenges, where other cachers lay down goals for the community at large and cachers interested in persuing one of those goals receives some sort of badge or whatever for that accomplished goal. There'd be no physical cache for the qualifying cacher to claim afterward, just the recognition of the badge (perhaps a unique badge for each one?).
I use personal goals just like many others, but I just don't see a need to be able to claim a smiley for having accomplished them. Don't get me wrong, as a guy who enjoys all facets of caching, including finding as many as I can, the idea of getting an easy smiley is totally fine by me, but really isn't necessary in my opinion.
I'm much in agreement. I enjoyed the challenges before when they were just personal challenges. But now there are just so many caches around that can't be found because they have such onerous requirements. It does seem like their time has come and gone and they would be better served in another manner.
Like posted above, challenges helped renew my interest in caching, but that soon waned as the stacks and stacks of rules and challenge directed finds soon went from making caching more interesting, to making it even less fun than before.
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...was right beside train tracks.
Were they ACTIVE railroad tracks?
Any railroad with rails should be considered an active railroad. Period. Full stop.
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Here's my list of coins on offer that I'm trying to part from my collection. If anyone is interested, please let me know. The current list and general pictures are linked in my signature. Thanks for your interest.
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It would be useful to cache owners to know about any information posted in logs for their caches.
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Send out notifications for any log edits performed on owned caches so that owners know the entirety of what is posted and can respond to any issues.
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Certainly a good idea.
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Here's my list of coins on offer that I'm trying to part from my collection. If anyone is interested, please let me know. The current list and general pictures are linked in my signature. Thanks for your interest.
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If the owner isn't around to even post a log on their cache, the needs maintenance flag is the least of things to be worried about for the cache.
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I'm of a similar opinion, it takes but a few hours to get a new cache published.
It often takes months for a cache owner to perform maintenance required to reactivate a disabled cache.
It can take upwards of a year to go through a courteous process to have a cache disabled/archived where the owner has abandoned it.
While the impact of a disabled cache is generally fairly minor, it does block others from hiding a findable cache in the general area. The impact of a missing, but active cache, is obviously more significant as it sends people on an unenjoyable wild goose chase and increases the impact on the area as people spend more time there and search more thoroughly.
You end up with a lot of these flash in a pan style hides, where someone puts out a cache, it is found a few times, then goes missing for whatever reason and hangs around for months until being disabled and then months more before being archived.
In my opinion, the overall approach demonstrates a lack of care about cache maintenance by Groundspeak.
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The list is dwindling, but still quite a few coins on offer that I'm trying to part from my collection. If anyone is interested, please let me know. The current list and general pictures are linked in my signature. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Thanks
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I don't like to see rehashes of the same cache. Even rehashing the same area isn't all that fun. For people in search of numbers it is perhaps the thing to do, but for people in search of experiences this doesn't work.
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I've had my iPad for over a year and there's been no update of the Geocaching app to an iPad version. And no word on if there will be one. Nor any indication as to whether or not buying the existing app will give you a free upgrade to an iPad version in the future. Why not make it a universal app?
And why no Facebook integration? I can check into millions of restaurants and locations all over the word and have it post to my Facebook account, but not Geocaching? What better way to advertise (freely!) than have the thousands of members who cache post about it to all their friends on Facebook?
My membership just lapsed for the year. I've been paying since 2006. Until Groundspeak catches up with the times, I see no reason to continue paying them when I'm not getting out of them what they're capable of. Quit coasting, guys, and get with the times! Please!
I don't have an iPad and I don't want Facebook integration.
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I'll once again offer up my list of coins I'm trying to part from my collection. If anyone is interested, please let me know. The current list and general pictures are linked in my signature. Thanks
Can you get a group shot or have some place the pics are posted?
Pictures are already linked at the top of the list.
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I'll once again offer up my list of coins I'm trying to part from my collection. If anyone is interested, please let me know. The current list and general pictures are linked in my signature. Thanks
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I'm plugging away in the feedback forum throwing out suggestions and supporting other worthwhile changes, but I'm almost always out of votes and can't lend support or start new ideas.
So when is it a good idea to remove a vote from an old suggestion?
When it is tagged by an admin as "under review"? has it already passed the hurdle, or is the amount of support still reviewed before getting implemented or refused
If the topic has been sitting for a long time without any real action? is it done for and time to give up and move on or should we hold out hope
Any other ideas?
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I'll once again offer up my list of coins I'm trying to part from my collection. If anyone is interested, please let me know. The list and general pictures are linked in my signature. Thanks
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Here's my list of coins I'm trying to part from my collection. If anyone is interested, please let me know. The list and pictures are linked in my signature. Thanks
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If souvenirs are something of interest to you, I'd welcome you to vote for my suggestion to add the Canadian Provinces and Territories as new souvenirs.
Vote Here:
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The Christmas season is a approaching so I'll once again offer up my list of coins I'm trying to part from my collection. List is in my signature.
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Another issue I've discovered, emailed logs are going out with HTML encoding. My account is set "Do not send emails from Groundspeak in HTML format when available."
Log Date: 11/9/2010 <p> Tough 1.5 TNLNSL</p>
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Looks like there is an issue with encryption in logs also.
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I have been going on long geocaching excursions lately, finding a dozen or more caches at a time. This morning for example, I found 17. By the end of the hike I wasn’t signing the log sheets anymore, and in most cases, I soon as I saw the cache I marked it as found and moved on to the next. The only time I’ve been open a cache anymore is if my 8 yr old is along to trade swag.
Anyone else skipping the log sheet?
Bah! 17 is a long excursion, pfft. Take the time and sign the log, its the rule.
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Another tip for nano hiders. Permanently attach a small stick or wire to the head of the log book that is slightly wider than the log. This not only assists in removal but also in rerolling the log.
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Here's my list of coins on offer (link in signature) that I'm trying to part from my collection. If anyone is interested, please let me know. The current list and general pictures are linked in my signature. Thanks for your interest.