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On 7/3/2023 at 7:19 PM, Vicious Cycle said:
I've released TBs with very specific goals in the past. Some cachers make an earnest attempt to read the TB goals and help the bug reach its goal, while others ...well...let's just say "not so much."
From a Travel Bug owner's perspective it can be a little frustrating, but it has not stopped me from releasing TBs. I'm aware I'm assuming the risk of losing the TB when I release it into the wild. But I have a couple of questions for the general Geocaching community:
- Do you prefer to find TB with specific goals or the ones that just want to get miles or travel from cache to cache?
- Does it seem to you that TBs with a general goal of simply getting as many miles as possible tend to travel further and last longer than TBs with more specific goals (e.g., visit each of the state capitals)?
- Do you ever specifically search for Geocaches with TBs in them?
- Does a cache with TBs in its inventory make a cache more attractive to you?
- Have you ever kidnapped a TB? (...held on to a TB much longer than you intended)
1. If a TB has a clearly stated goal (which means it has to be clearly stated *on*the*trackable*), I'll make an effort to help it along. Otherwise, I'll pick it up and drop it whenever I find a new cache that's big enough.
2. No idea.
3. No.
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5. Absolutely. If I have the TB with me, all caches are too small. If I forget the TB, I find a large enough cache. Rinse and repeat...
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59 minutes ago, obarshay said:
This is a list I put together:
https://www.trackabledb.com/viewList.php?id=39&key=14c8afe4cd4fa64d303bdbd863455a92&filter=3Nice! I assume there should be something each year at least from 2005?
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Being a volunteer, I get a volunteer and lackey coin as a gift from HQ each year. I wonder if there is a list somewhere that shows all the ones they've made? I've only seen the ones created since I became a volunteer in 2014(?), so I'm curious how the older ones looked.
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This is from way before I become a volunteer, so nice to see some of the really old volunteer coins. I think I have all the ones from 2014 and onwards; there are a lot more lackeys on them nowadays!
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Just for the record, this happens to me as well.
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At least for the last few days, drafts (created with Cachly) with images don’t work properly when I try to log them on the web site later. The log gets posted but then the page just hangs, not posting the image. I’ve tried posting on the web site both via my computer and my phone.
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On 1/21/2022 at 10:01 PM, The A-Team said:
I just noticed that a batch of 10 souvenirs has been released. Do you happen to know if you got the Bermuda souvenir on Wednesday or Thursday? I'm sure people don't look at their souvenir list daily, so it might be hard to pin down the release date. HQ did say that they'll be released on Wednesdays.
I just saw those. If the price for getting this increased amount of souvenirs is that they are now just a flag, then I think the old way of releasing just one per month was much better.
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On 10/28/2020 at 9:22 PM, cerberus1 said:
I disagree. Cache history would be off.
Counting "smiley points" now wouldn't really be fair to the many people who kept this hobby alive, using benchmarks for something to do until geocaches were more plentiful.
IIRC, it's because benchmarks helped the site's members find something while caches were few and far between that they're even still here.
Since benchmarks are only available to a minority of geocachers to begin with it would be nice if they could be removed from the geocaching website entirely, just like waymarks have been.
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2 hours ago, jellis said:
I didn’t see an answer to the CHECKER attribute. Why is it only for GC checker and not others?
That way it can separate the reliable checkers from the others. The GC checker always tests for the proper coordinates instead of some bogus solution in the middle of the Pacific and updates the corrected coordinates for you. These are both major features. It also does not allow for random misspelled words as the solution instead of coordinates in a well-defined format, also cutting down on frustration significantly.
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1 hour ago, Keystone said:
If the challenge cache attribute is added to a cache that is not a challenge cache, the attribute needs to be removed. Your local Community Volunteer Reviewer can assist with this if informal efforts within the community do not lead to correction of the error.
Will that happen to other similar errors, like the Scuba attributes on the ET Highway trail, as well?
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Due to another bug (
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Drafts of the Write Note type also comes up misdated to today, despite being written for another date.
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15 hours ago, two bison said:
After reading the information saying, if we went to the "new experience" we would not be able to return to the old way, my thought is that I'll try my best to avoid the new experience. I base this on what happened when the new logging experience came out and the ability to log that a cache needed to be archived or if maintenance is needed, why that might be true, disappeared.
It's still perfectly possible to mark caches as "needs archived" or "needs maintenance" and write a reason in your log. Before this change, quite a few people would write a "needs maintenance" log *instead* of writing a "found" log, on the quite reasonable assumption that one log should be enough to log a cache (and possibly indicate that it has problems in the process). I've seen the occasional grognard complaining over this change since Everything Is Not As It Was In 2004, but it's still an improvement.
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17 hours ago, Porkwatch said:
I absolutely hate it when Headquarters forces something new on me. I was just getting comfortable using lists and knew what to do with them.
This morning I see that the people who have nothing better to do but to create busy-work for themselves to maintain employment have changed the way that I view and use lists. I didn't even have a choice. I intensely dislike having to re-learn how to use tools when there was nothing wrong with it in the first place.
Headquarters has made other changes to the game so that anybody with an iPhone can find caches. There have been so many puzzle solvers created, and other programs to project lines and distances, that have resulted in fewer CO's creating geocaches that are made to make people think. Things have been dumb-downed, and we know why it is being done... to include more players (at $30/year). It's no longer a game, it's just a business.Don't even get me started on the maps that freeze up when you zoom in on caches you have selected.
Even though you don't see or understand the reasons for a change, there may well be lots of reasons that make it important. This can be both internal reasons having to do with performance, code maintainability, continued availability of tools and so on as well as user-visible reasons that are not obvious in your particular use case but are for others where the old version was unworkable.
Frankly, expecting computer services to look exactly the same year out and year in is both a recipe for disappointment for yourself and (if some developer would listen) a hindrance to development.
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On 10/2/2019 at 11:05 PM, Oceansazul said:
- We have a bug ticket in to fix this. Thanks for reporting
- In our next release we plan to release "sticky" pagination so that each user can designate their own default page size.
- We have added this request to the list of feature requests we are monitoring
Can we hope for sticky sorting as well (per list, if so - different lists require different sorting)?
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1 hour ago, Frau Potter said:
Thanks for reporting this. We have notified the engineering team and hope for a fix soon.
The last couple of notifications I've gotten the last minutes have been back to normal again!
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On 5/19/2018 at 5:25 PM, The Rat said:
Mike's First (GC4) hidden 5/7/2000 is the oldest active listing. It has only two logs: 1 find and 1 DNF, but there's no solid indication that it has been replaced or gone missing. It's almost certainly gone, but so far as anyone can tell from the cache page, it's still out there and in its original state.
Well, it's not archived, but it's locked so you can't log it.
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Since someone already mentioned Project-GC I'll mention cachetur.no instead. It's a great complement to Project-GC, with more detailed tools for making a tour plan, routing and things like that. There are also interconnecting tools so that you can use Project-GC to easily find caches you need for your Jasmer (for instance) and then easily insert them in the appropriate places in your cachetur tour.
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The new list page generally looks good, but I've noticed an annoying problem: The page forgets settings I make (like how many items to show) when I close it and reopen.
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As of a couple of days ago, all emails I get about various types of logs that I have notifications for have extra superfluous newlines between every line (Logged by, Log type, Date, etc) which means that all the interesting information (i.e. the actual log) is now outside a typical laptop screen. Please revert back to the old look.
Mac OS 10.14.5
Mail.app 12.4 (3445.104.11)
(I include a screenshot of a recent broken log as well as an older correct one.)
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Second, because of their minimal value, COs have the right to delete notes to their content, whether or not they contain 'questionable' content.
Here is what the guidelines actually say:
6.13. Delete logs
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Cache owners may delete geocache logs if they conflict with our Terms of Use Agreement or fail to meet the logging guidelines.
Note the lack of any mention of log type.
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One key issue seems to be that GS does not have a way to educate cachers that enter caching via the apps and never use the website. This is something they should take care by redesigning the app and not by restricting those who have used the website for many, many years.
Except for in-app tutorials, which they have in the official app. The "problem" is people starting out with geocaching without help from anyone with experience, and without using the official app.
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What you can't do is say: The event runs from 9 to 3. At 9 we hike for the top of the mountain. We plan to reach the top by 12, have lunch, then return. You can say: We have an event at posted coordinates from 8:30 to 9:00. If interested, you can join some of us on a hike following the event.
Or you can post an event at the top of the mountain at 12 and say in the description that for most people that would mean that a reasonable time to start is 9, and that you yourself plan to do that. You won't have the hike technically be a part of the event, but probably more people would take part in it than if the event was allowed to be both at the start and the end (since people would then not be able to just come to the start, log, and leave).
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I do know that recurring events do not fit into modern geocaching. When I started with geocaching noone cared about what is the largest event, what is the most found cache, who is the winner of whatever and many of these questions. It was about offering special experiences regardless of whether for normal caches or for events. We intentionally organized locally the regular meetings of the community outside of geocaching and had a geocaching event once or twice a year and that event then was special and lasted several hours and most attendants were present during all this time and noone left for geocaching very early or came very late for these reasons.
It's so unfortunate that statistics based arguments have become so important. While some features of project-gc and similar tools are handy, I'm quite unhappy about the reinforced effect these tools had on how some cachers wish to enforce how others should enjoy geocaching. That also happened for challenge caches.
I'm all for events lasting more than the minimum half-hour, having activities more than just meeting at a parking lot and people staying for the entire duration. None of that is hindered by using event listings as they are meant to be used; one per actual event. Reusing a listing doesn't add anything apart from confusion.
As for challenges, the problem was cachers creating more and more outlandish corner-case challenges, reviewers nixing them and cachers taking them to appeals which caused a lot of work for very little benefit. Having clear guidelines (regardless of the content of the actual guidelines) eliminates this problem caused by people bending the too-vaguely-defined rules too far, and I feel that is a good thing (which is not really the subject here, though).
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Volunteer and lackey coin list?
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Apart from the coin on that list, in 2018 volunteers also got "Signal the Frog® Trackable Brick (Exclusive Volunteer Edition)".