[wrong (?) "Found On" date in list of a friend]

Hi Bl4ckH4wkGER,

 

I think new search based "All Geocache Finds" contains a bug.

 

On 5/28/2021 at 5:47 PM, Bl4ckH4wkGER said:

The "Found On" date on new Search indicates the date the cache was last found by anybody.

 

Sure? I think it is not 100% clear what "Found On" means. It depends on the context of the search. If you don't know the context of the search, you are not able to say what kind of date "Found On" contains. Whether this is good or bad from UEX's perspective is also a matter of personal preference. From a technical perspective I would say is good, from a user's perspective I would say bad.

 

I see three search contexts

• Normal search: "Date of the last found by anybody" (ok)
• "All Geocache Finds" on MY public profile: "Date of my found" (ok)
• "All Geocache Finds" on FOREIGN public profiles: ???

Behaviour on foreign profiles

The "Found On" field has a strange behaviour on foreign public profiles:

•  for the first 50 results "Date of found by the user" (ok)
•  for the +50 (loaded) results "Date of the last found by anybody" (NOT ok)

I think this is a bug - or a secret feature? ;-) . But by the way, sorting of results (found date of the user) is still ok.

 

See attached picture, the "Found On" timeline has a (huge) gap. I create the picture from a profile of a very well known person and I know there is no such huge gap in their founds.

 

Reproduce the bug

• Open a public profile (with an long caching history) - not yours
• Go to Geocaches and open "All Geocache Finds"
• (optional) Change search order of "Found on" to ascend - do this and you can see the bug better
• Scroll down to the next loaded results (+50)

Cheers

CachingFoX

 

 

 

 

 

[Release Notes (Website: Progressive release, Lists) - September 23, 2019]

BBCode in descriptions (for lists and caches) is no longer rendered. Please provider a new method to create formatted descriptions. I know these is not the main goal of lists but formatted descriptions helps and makes the value of lists much higher. Markdown will be great :-)

 

Thank you

CachingFoX