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solid-rock-seekers

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  1. With one of the recent updates, the ability to search the locationless caches by keyword (or anything else for that matter) seems to have gone away from the Searching for Caches page.. Is this a feature that will be coming back, or was this an intentional change to remove this capability? I understand that the locationless searches were changed recently to avoid them coming up in searches by ZIP code, location, state, etc. I think that change made a lot of sense. However, the other searches (by keyword, username found, username hidden) all disappeared too, and I have found the other searches useful. I regularly the locationless "search by keyword" feature to find the cache page for a locationless cache for which I no longer know the title. I've read through all of the locationless caches to learn what things I should be looking for. However, after seeing one of these things, it is a whole new challenge to find the cache page without having a way to search for it! The only way to readily do so on the geocaching.com site is to do the search for all locationless, and then browse through all 284 listings one at a time. The reason that this is particularly a problem is that many of the locationless caches have names which are not particularly revealing as to the "target" for which one is looking. For example, the locationless cache looking for mascots is called Are We Having Fun Yet? Trying to find this page after just taking photos of a mascot at a baseball game is a whole new challenge! Yes, I know that I can use an external index, such as Buxley's Geocaching Waypoint to provide a single-page index for the locationless caches, but such external indexes are inherently out of date since they are manually maintained. Any possibility of the "search by keyword" coming back for locationless caches? Thanks!
  2. tisri, I really like your suggestion of having a "retrieve TBs" pulldown on the cache "log your visit" page if one is logging a visit to a cache which contained one or more TBs. This would be a good way to introduce the TB logs to novice cachers, a reminder for experienced cachers, and a nice convenience for everybody. There would need to be a prompt for entering the ID tag number, but there should be some way to provide a box for that as well.
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