[Release Notes (Website: Links now point to new search results) - April 20, 2021]

Wow. This change has RUINED the search function for me.   In fact, it is almost useless for my needs.   I had already been using the OLD search as the first set of changes did not meet my needs. 

 

Not everyone uses a smart phone for geocaching.  Not all of us geocache by randomly driving around then stopping to see what  caches are in the area ! 

 

 

[Release Notes (Website: Public Profile displays total Favorite points received) - February 10, 2020]

On 2/12/2020 at 6:39 PM, barefootjeff said:

 

The point I was trying to make is that you can hide the greatest, most fantastic of caches but if it's in a place that gets few visitors it's never going to rack up many FPs. My D3/T4 Nemophilist Challenge published last October has had just two finds, both giving it FPs, and my latest D2/T3.5 multi published a few weeks ago has only had one find and received one FP. They're never going to compete on FP tallies with the MKHs placed in the tourist hotspots around Sydney harbour or even a good urban P&G cache around my area.

Very true.  I have a Pirate-themed cache that has received  100 Percent in Favorite Points-to-finds...but the cache itself has few finds due to its location/terrain rating.  Thus  this cache seems less "favorable" than another cache I placed,  one which is literally a pill bottle with a foam bat glued to it.  LoL   And seriously, I know too many caching friends who give Favorite Points to their friends or simply because of the age of a cache, and I personally think of FPs a form of "popularity contest" vote.