karinagw
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You don't think we have not noticed that and commented about it? Many, many, many times. So far no idea if it will ever be fixed. Did being snarky at me make you feel better? Because of a variety of reasonably big catastrophes/events over the past several months, I've barely had time to go geocaching and wasn't really aware of the mapping situation when I posted and hadn't seen anything when I skimmed the forums. BUT, if you've had some tough times and getting angry at me helped you feel better, well, I guess I understand...sort of. This has been a problem for nearly a year. Really? You're going to keep up being mean? You come deal with my Alzheimer mother, my father who lost a bunch of his faculties when he went into a diabetic coma almost a year ago. Come help me with the stress of a spouse trying to get his degree while having to cope with a 3 hour per day commute and a tense job. It's too late for you to come help me deal with my kids loading up and moving to to California. I will no longer be your punching bag. Your attitude towards a total stranger who had come into an unexpected situation in a hobby which she had PREVIOUSLY enjoyed is reprehensible. Good luck, cachers with your hobby. Done now.
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You don't think we have not noticed that and commented about it? Many, many, many times. So far no idea if it will ever be fixed. Did being snarky at me make you feel better? Because of a variety of reasonably big catastrophes/events over the past several months, I've barely had time to go geocaching and wasn't really aware of the mapping situation when I posted and hadn't seen anything when I skimmed the forums. BUT, if you've had some tough times and getting angry at me helped you feel better, well, I guess I understand...sort of.
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I usually print a map if I'm travelling with really no time to geocache. That way I can take a quick look at it (which is way faster than cranking up any of the software apps) and see if there is anything nearby where I am at that moment. But, the "improvements" they've made now preclude that. I will have to look into GSAK for future trips. I don't think I have time to totally learn new software between now and my crack of dawn flight.
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It used to be that if you were on your list of pocket queries and you clicked "show pocket query on map", you got a map of the area that just showed the caches from that query. This was great, I would print it out, so I could get a feel of where things were to make it easier if I didn't have a lot of time. Now, it shows all the caches in the area....totally useless. (And, in an associated mini-rant, I intensely dislike the Beta map and wish I could make the original version the default (for me)).
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What would be really nice is if one of the cache search parameters was by size (if there is that options somewhere, I've missed it). I would love to be able to search an area I'm going to for caches big enough to stash a TB in, rather than skim down the list, micro micro micro micro micro micro micro micro small micro micro micro micro micro micro micro micro regular micro micro micro micro, etc.
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I'd love to, but I don't currently have any TBs. Even I could get one from Amazon by tomorrow, I don't think I could get it to Jersey in time. Pity. But, I think I will go to Amazon and order something anyway. EDIT - sadly, there are no trackables I can get next day from Amazon, so even that hope has been dimmed. Good luck with the race. I look forward to watching it.
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Easy to say, but my Wash trackable (TB35CEH) was given to me by my daughter for Christmas and only had 11 discrete finders before the permanent home it seems to have found in Oregon. Like its namesake, it had an early and untimely end.
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Yep. That's exactly what it means. And, that's part of my original point...maybe if they just mention that somewhere, it would be okay.
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you don't have to find a Cache to log that it needs maintenence, especially in the case of a Multi that is missing parts. True. I was thinking mostly of the maintenance logs that indicate wet logs, cracked lids, dissolving containers, etc. Missing parts to me count as DNFs.
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Clearly if one has submitted a maintenance log for a cache, one has found it. But, rather than maintenance adding onto your cache find, you have to take up space with yet another cache log. This is not merely a matter of upping one's find count, the cache remains on your maps as unfound.
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With regards to the foregoing comment(s), it would have been a good idea to incorporate different operating systems, i.e. W98se, Vista etc, along with IE and FF browsers, however old they may be. Some of us are still using them and, heaven forbid, log onto GC by the "dialup" method. Furthormore, it would have been appropriate to see how the website is displayed in various screen formats, i.e. 800x600, 1024x768 etc. I completely agree with you...I just didn't feel the need to competely document what to me should be obvious steps in making sure your site will work for a majority of your users. However, as this was a college website, I also had the luxury of knowing that 90% of my users were going to be operating Windows with IE and/or Firefox. At that point, MACs had not made the in-roads that they have now. Although I did also test on them as well. To get back kind of on topic. The site speed has varied tremendously since the upgrade. It's been either blazingly fast or turtle slow with no happy medium. Personally, I prefer the former, although the latter does enable me to go get tea. /k
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The problem is that the untested build (and clearly, if it was tested internally, it was tested on a very specific hardware/software set and not under a variety of conditions) was/is far more disruptive/confusing to the geocaching community, I suspect, than the unannounced outages. The changes that made portions of the site dysfunctional and unusable were confusing and aggravating enough to those of us who understand and work with computers on a regular basis, I can't imagine how the majority of your users felt when faced with a site that had visually changed and functionally degraded. Just because geocaching advertises itself as a high tech sport does not mean, by any means, that its users are tech-savvy....especially given things like the iphone app, geocache junior, and google maps (which will pinpoint your coords for you) that make the sport more appealing to the general joe/joan q public. I wish that we were not feeling that GC is sighing deeply at our irrational requests for a website that was had its previous functionality, for a website that did not force us to waste paper if (heaven forfend) we can't afford a hot spit gps device that held all the info and had to pring out our cache info, for a website that does not kill our eyes as we try to read the weird spacing and font sizes that some marketing shill (and I am always perfectly willing to blame marketing for new looks) thought was a good idea. I've run websites for much smaller organizations than a community of thousands and I would never have released a site as buggy as this release was. When I had to rebuild, I built a parallel test site, made sure that everything I could think of worked under IE and FF, at the very least, and then asked co-workers and a very very few reliable outsiders to take a look at it and tell me if I missed anything. Only then would I release it to the public at large. AND, even then I always put warning messages on the old site that changes were coming and keep people up to date as to a timeline and contact info in case of problems. /k
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I will say that the speed has improved 100-fold for me. yay on that point. I intensely dislike the 1.5 line spacing. It's wasteful. The width of the columns are influenced by widescreen monitors, but that's because the programmer was too lazy to put a max width on the table. On a completely unrelated note (because I have to vent and whoever answers the email isn't seeing my issue). The auto-generated emails that Groundspeak puts out in the case of expiration and credit card denial completely contradict each other and screwed around with my membership).
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I just tried to verify your results in IE8, but my zipcode (55075) could not be found! Just tried it with Firefox (current) on Windows 7. Totally true. get the same results (all caches) whether the exclusion is checked or unchecked.
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I wonder if some of the problem is the evergrowing preponderance of widescreen monitors which programmers really don't think about when designing their tables. My monitor resolution is 1920x1080 and I have the same issue. HOWEVER, if I grab the bottom right corner of the browser and drag it narrower, a whole boatload of the whitespace disappears (not the line-spacing, sadly) and it looks much better. Sadly, this is still a design problem, I use a lot of sites that have wide non-fixed tables and they fill in the blank space just fine (this site being a good example). I wish that the browsers (in my case the latest Firefox) would let you specify a resolution per tab so that I could force the GC website to pretend to be 1024 wide and look not quite as obnoxious.