glorieme

OMG - thank you SO MUCH. I have a list of ECs and other caches in my Drafts to do from a September/October trip to 11 National Parks. The thought of resizing a bunch of photos was making me so frustrated. Because the laptop I use to log caches is my work computer, I can't download any resizing programs. So now I'll wait to the end of the week to do my logs. Geocaching is like my diary - and including the photos - writing personalized logs with photos to document my adventures makes the game more fun to me.

I'm not impressed with one of the features of the new look and format of online logging. In particular, the drag or upload images/photo option (the rest of the new format is just fine). I use geocaching to explore the world around me. When I'm visiting somewhere important like a National Park, and I know I want to edit my log and upload photos, I create a Draft (from my phone) while in the park and then do my log at home when I have more time. I like to put more in my cache log than "TFTC" - and I love adding photos to document my visit there. The old format allowed you to drag and drop (or upload) your photo(s) and it automatically resized it for you. The new format doesn't allow you to do that. It requires you to resize your photo to 5MB or less first. REALLY?!!!!! This is slowing my logging experience down so much. Hey, Groundspeak - most of us use our phones to take photos, and not crappy photos, either. Most phones don't save photos at 5MB or less. Now, I have to go photo by photo in my own drive, open them in another program to reduce the size, save it under a new name -- and THEN I can add it to my log. It makes me want to pull my hair out. It's a frustrating process that used to be easy and makes me happy to add more than one photo to my log. I'd really like you to put back in the automatically resizing option. You have the capability to do it - why did you take that feature away? Signed, a lover of geocaching, but now a hater of creating quality logs.

I was in the middle of logging caches from a long road trip in September. I like to drag and drop my photos when writing my logs online. I logged a few caches, making my way down my list. During this time, HQ/Groundspeak must have updated the website. The logging your cache page looks very different now. AND -- stoopid, stoopid, stoopid -- when you drag and drop your photo(s), it used to automatically resize for you before posting. Now you get an error message telling you that you need to resize your photo to be 5mb or smaller. OMG! This slows down my logging TREMENDOUSLY. Now I have to individually reformat all my photos before dragging and dropping them to my log. This is frustrating. HQ/Groundspeak: please turn on the reformatting feature again..............

I find this really disappointing. I disagree that they are not relevant to caching today. How are you defining relevant? And what criteria are you using. I feel that just because they are only in the US, it shouldn't negate the challenge and fun of finding them. The Original Stash is only in the US, and that doesn't discourage others from making it a point to find it. Finding a benchmark isn't actually different than all the souvenir challenges that you, HQ, keep putting on - including the current one. I say keep them as they are. Those that find them know and understand that the data was a one time shot, and we know that some of them are not there anymore. Rather than get rid of them, maybe create a feature where we can recommend a particular one be removed from the list if it is gone? Similar to a cache that is missing. I say they are relevant and just as fun and challenging to find as you would a D4 or D5 cache.