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I suspect that you've just hit on the reason that MissJenn asked us not to post that list. It's so incomplete that people cannot rely on it to be an accurate representation of the actual regions covered by souvis.Hmmm...maybe you're right... It is my understanding that the feedback site has not been abandoned. They did go from one site to another a while back, but that's not the same thing.I'm talking about the new feedback site (UserVoice) being abandoned. To be honest, it's not really easy to track comments by lackeys over at teh feedback site, but a quick peek shows that Jeremy has responded to issues presented and completed associated projects within the last day.Really? Let's hope it's a new trend then. It doesn't change the fact that there has been next to no activity from Groundspeak on the feedback site for a very long time. \Mette

You have to keep in mind that souvis are only just being rolled out. Since initial testing was done in one small area of the US, those souvis that were initially brought online are only in that area. I have little doubt that once the rollout is more complete, you will see that they do cover all areas. At my job, we have people working on all manner of projects. As projects are completed, they are implemented. Often times, one team will still be working on a priority project when another team completes a project of less importance. When this happens, we don't delay implementation of the minor project until the major one is completed by another team. That would be silly. My point is that GS doesn't consist of three guys working a single project. It is no doubt true that other people are working on their own projects while this one was being developed. Complaining that this feature was introduced prior to the implementation of any of our personal desires makes no sense. Just out of curiosity, what are the 'relevant issues' that you would have preferred that they resolved first? I know that souvenirs are just being rolled out. But the lists of planned souvenirs posted so far contains very little of interest for someone outside the US. I see your point of having different people working on different things getting ready at different times and getting released accordingly. However I think the priorities are wrong. Having someone working on souvenirs and at the same time abandoning the feedback site is ridiculous in my opinion. Having someone from Groundspeak spending as little as half an hour each day going through, replying to and setting the status of the ideas on the feedback site would make things there so much better, but apparently no one has any time or desire to do so. Relevant issues according to me is showing the users of the feedback site some respect by giving answers and working on solutions for the problems listed and implementations of the accepted/planned ideas. \Mette

I did say that we will probably never visit the US. It's not because we don't want to, it's the cost of going that's an obstacle. And I believe it's even more expensive to travel from Denmark to the states than it is to travel from London. I didn't mean to rub anybody the wrong way. I was only trying to convey that from my point of view the souvenirs don't seem to have been created with others than North Americans in mind. It has nothing to do with fairness, but when I observe that TPTB put effort into something that seems utterly irrelevant, while they at the same time does nothing about relevant issues it leaves me feeling disgruntled. Given that the souvenirs are here and probably here to stay, I agree. \Mette

As someone living in Europe I find the souvenirs talked about so far completely irrelevant. (We have the 10-10-10, but big deal, everyone could get that - even without actually finding a cache). We will probably never go to the US, so souvenirs for parks, landmarks and states - what relevance do they have for us? It's just like the cache type icons we can never get... Maybe at some point there will be souvenirs for every country in Europe to "satisfy" the European geocachers. But we already have stats on our profile that shows where we have been caching. I completely fail to see how souvenirs will add to the enjoyment of the game for us and many other non Americans. From my point of view souvenirs are just one more thing made by Americans for Americans, so I couldn't care less about them. However since Groundspeak puts some of their limited resources into making and awarding the souvenirs, I really hope someone enjoys them, though.

I'm getting some help by PM. Something is going wrong with our mail.

Thanks, but neither my husband (DKgiz) or I (M3tt3S) has received an email with instructions on how to proceed. Our spam filters are empty. When we log in to ubi.com we're led through the last part of the registration process again (uploading the diagX file) and then we get the message to wait for a mail. Are we doing something wrong? \Mette

Have you posted Feedback on that? I did: \Mette

Scratch that. I just got two notifications on the same topic

I haven't got a clue of how to help you, sorry. All I can say is that I only get one mail notification for each topic. And I don't think I have done anything special when signing up for the notifications.

I suggest an exclamation mark (maybe a red one) for challenge caches.

Both my husband and I created an ubi.com account 2 days ago. Now we're wondering how long we'll have to wait for an email with further instructions/download link/rejection/whatever/something? Edited to add: Spam filter has been checked and has been found empty

We like meeting the cachers we know and the ones we don't know yet. But we also like finding the caches placed for the event. We usually end up teaming together with some other cachers for the cache hunt, so although we go out hunting we're still social. \Mette

I have seen this on caches too. But the "." was encrypted! And it was on good caches...

I can't think of one sport that's not competitive. Geocaching is not competitive if you view it as it's described by Groundspeak. I don't see geocaching as a sport. A hobby, an activity, an adventure, a game. Any of these labels are ok with me. \Mette

I too am disappointed with the amount of feedback given from Groundspeak on UserVoice. It's almost non-existent as far as I can see. Another major problem is that when an idea is "under review" your votes are not returned to you as they would be if the idea was "planned", "completed" or "declined". So as long as an idea is being reviewed your votes are tied up in limbo for a long time. I know I can unvote, but then it looks like the idea has less support than it really has. This would not be a major issue if ideas "under review" was being marked as something else after a relatively short period of time. For instance this idea currently has 259 votes and it has been "under review" since September 14th. (My request to return votes when an idea is "under review" was declined btw.) Yet another annoyance is that it's impossible to see when an idea is posted. You can only see when the first comment was made. And unless you have put vote(s) on an idea and get mail notification when it's status is changed, then you have no way of knowing when the change happened. I really like the idea of having a feedback system, but when no or very little feedback is given from TPTB then it's just a waste of my time and it feels like Groundspeak is making a fool of everyone participating. If the lack of feedback from Groundspeak is based in a desire to keep things secret, couldn't an idea be marked as "We're not discussing this now" and everybody would get their votes back. If the lack of feedback is a matter of not enough people to give it, then get more people. Or could it be that Groundspeak did not anticipate how much interest a feedback system would get? And now they are stuck with a system they can't or won't use the necessary time on? And it would be too embarrassing to get rid of it again? \Mette Edited to add: Vote here!

I would say a random container thrown at a random place with no special history, view, nature, hike or other feature. And with a cache description of less than 3 lines of text. \Mette

There's already a topic on this: here

At the time of the above post I believe ForestDefenders' find count was somewhere below 100. Now it's 3423. All logs are: (including an external link) And now the found count is 3489....

Besides ETLogEater there is also ForestDefender - see the logs on GC2G2J9.

My best bet would be to either 1) Create a PQ, In the "From Origin" box choose "My home coordinates" and then experiment with the dates in the "Placed during" box or 2) Use GSAK \Mette Wow, do I feel dumb. I didn't see the date range as part of that. Doh! NEVERMIND! Glad to have helped

Thanks. We are definitely enjoying him and we'll continue to do so But the sharp puppy teeth I could easily do without. My hands are all scratched up - and we haven't even been out caching \Mette

My best bet would be to either 1) Create a PQ, In the "From Origin" box choose "My home coordinates" and then experiment with the dates in the "Placed during" box or 2) Use GSAK \Mette

Nothing to do with geocaching, but my favorite photo of the weekend is this: We just got him this Friday and he's way cute (12 weeks old, 3/4 Labrador 1/4 Old English Sheepdog). \Mette

If you edit the listing you can put a check mark in "Check if you only want Premium and Charter Members to view this cache." Then it will be a PM only cache. \Mette

I put caches that really mean something to me on watch. I'll follow the logs on those that way. Occasionally I check the logs of other caches we have found, but it's perhaps once a month or so. I often check logs on caches we have DNFed or have posted NM on. \Mette