mandevil

I have created and submitted my first Wherigo yesterday. I don't understand why Wherigo was abandoned. Its problems are eminently solvable, it's just no one cared to do that. Adventure Labs could have been built with the Wherigo backend. Beginner friendly builder could have lowered the barrier to entry while letting experienced creators use the real power of the underlying framework and lua scripting. I don't understand the draw of Adventure Labs. It seems rather antithetical to the spirit of geocaching. If you want to be collecting meaningless points by hundreds, then there's Munzee. And tellingly, it's mostly dead around here, so it probably is not the experience people want.

I have a fairly difficult D4 mystery with final away from path. I was bit surprised to get few logs from, apparently, children. My traditionals tend to get regular muggle logs as well. But if they leave the container as they found it, I am more pleased than bothered.

Ah, thank you, sir, for explaining. It's just another little annoyance, one of many that await anyone who wants to something better than plain-text listings...

I want to link (through A HREF) to images that are part of the listing and hosted using GS's own AWS filebucket. So I have a link like (just an example, that image does not exist): <a href="https://img.geocaching.com/cache/f7c46618-f53b-11ec-8d0a-f3f15e43771a.jpg" target="_blank"> But when I click that link, I get a warning popup about going to third-party website not controlled by Groundspeak. Like what? That's right on geocaching.com domain, why in the world is this considered unsafe?

Oh thanks, that indeed works.

When I add an external (Dropbox) image to my listing, the website makes it clickable and furnishes it with a "magnifier" icon. This can break layout of your listing if you need to align or join it cleanly with some other layout elements. It would be very nice if this "decoration" could be suppressed (by adding some CSS class or whatever).

This is interesting thread. I only started caching in 2018 and while less than 20% of my finds are mystery caches, I can say that the more difficult mysteries are invariably the most rewarding ones. There's nothing like finally seeing the bits of a solution to fall into place. So I definitely seek and will continue to seek mystery caches. I am not that good at solving them, so there's ton I just can't get handle on, but that's natural. Maybe one day I'll get more experienced and will solve them. As for hiding mysteries: I have hidden two (D4 and D5) and they have found their audience and were well received. I am entirely content with them having few finds after all the local guys capable of solving them have found them. If they rise to the top of the list of long unfound caches, that's even better ;-) After all, caches that are rarely found need very little attention from me as CO. I am also planning more mysteries in the same vein: Distant location, hard puzzle, few finds.

The most difficult of these is GC50RWJ . It's a quite hard to find hide, but what makes it really special is that the cache size is large. Having a hard hide for micro isn't that diffcult, but hiding a large cache, that's quite a feat. It's also my only large cache so far.

Sensible list and I basically what I am trying to follow. I always try to describe fairly extensively my experience. But that only works for caches that are interesting or require some effort. Simple park and grab caches... there's usually not much to write about. For me, there's a correlation between how much fun I had with the cache and length of the log. And as an owner, my two difficult mystery caches have long logs, but traditionals mostly the usual short TFTC logs. So it's a two-way street: Try to write interesting logs and also try to make interesting caches.

Yes, happens to me, too.

When I solve a mystery cache, I edit the cache's coordinates on the web to point to the final coordinates. The cache icon in the application changes to that special blue thing, which appears on the map in the actual location of the final. Now when I choose "Navigate", the application will start to navigate me towards the final. So far so good. But now, when I am map-navigating (ie. the app is showing a line between my current position and the final) I switch into the "compass" mode, the compass needle is navigating me towards the starting coordinates instead of final. Why is this? Is that a bug? Can anyone else replicate that? App version is 7.9.2.

Yes, but you cannot pad the cell, you cannot use special table cell properies that way and it's unnecessarily verbose. You can completely sidestep this stupid behaviour by using the fact, that TABLE, TR, TD .. etc. are basically DIVs with special "display" property value. Thus you can create true HTML tables without using the HTML tags that gc.com web imposes silly limits upon. Following example is a bona fide 2x2 HTML table (in other words, it's not a workaround, it's just different way of saying the same thing): <div style="display:table; border-collapse:collapse"> <div style="display:table-row"> <div style="display:table-cell; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;"> A </div> <div style="display:table-cell; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;"> B </div> </div> <div style="display:table-row"> <div style="display:table-cell; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;"> C </div> <div style="display:table-cell; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;"> D </div> </div> </div>

Hm... but in my listing the STYLE attributes were completely removed... I checked with dev tools inspector. This is what my table cells were looking like on input: <td style="border: 1px solid black; white-space: nowrap;color:red;font-weight:bold; padding: 1em">...</td> Maybe it removes the STYLE attribute when it sees something it doesn't want to allow? At any rate, my solution makes this discussion mostly moot...

Not sure how you host part of the page offsite (with frames?), but I have found clean solution which consists of using DIV elements in place of TABLE, TR, TD and TH.

I am working on my new cache listing and I have encountered following problem: I want to include small table using HTML TABLE tag. Unfortunately, any STYLE attribute seems to be removed from table cells (ie. TR and TH elements). This means that I cannot set border, padding, color etc., which makes the tables next to useless. Is this intentional behaviour? Is there anything I can do or is it simply no tables for me?

I cache since July this year. This is how I got hooked. In early summer this year a tragic incident happened. A group of four cachers went into underground sewer system to seek a geocache. Unfortunately for them, a storm dropped substantial amount of rain on surrounding areas and they got swept by a flash flood. Two of them were saved from drowning in a river they were swept into, but two others didn't make it, body of one has never been recovered. This caused wave of publicity, which (I believe) led to national public radio station host to invite a prominent geocacher for an interview. By chance I happened to listen to that interview on my commute and that's where it started for me. I visited GC.com and saw there was a cache mere 90 meters from my home! So I created an account and logged that as my very first cache. Today I have 86 finds and my first cache box to be hidden is ready and waiting for the day D. So far, I am totally in love. If it were all up to me, I'd cache all the time. I love to go out and to new places, so caching is a perfect fit. So far, two things bother me about geocaching. First, full logbooks and unmaintained caches. Second, there seems to be lot of cheaters out there. Recently I did a D4 mystery cache that required highly specialized knowledge that I just happened to have, so I didn't have much trouble. But I read ton of log entries that are in the style "today we decided to sweep caches in this area, it was nice walk, got XX caches". No mention of solving the problem, just going out and picking up a cache that took me around 2 hours to solve while knowing what's it about? I am very doubtful these people actually solved anything and this devalues this kind of difficult caches.

Hello, I am a guy from Czech Republic who is just getting hooked. Recently Czech Radio's main channel ran a hour long interview with a well known geocacher (complete with a finding a cache on the site of the first radio broadcast). This prompted me to check my local area and I found out there's a microcache less than hundred metres from my place. So I signed up on GC.com and went to find it. And from there it seems to be going downhill... I love to go out for long walks outside, so geocaching seems perfect to me. We'll see, so far 4 caches found and going for another one on my lunch break.