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This happens on both Safari and Chrome browsers on various iOS devices.

The Consent banner (‘accept or reject cookies’) often shows as a very tiny box on the cache page. See image. Is this a known issue?

When I share the link to a cache page on Social Media, a preview is shown. This contains only generic Geocaching information. It would be helpful to put the name in this preview. This can easily be done via meta tags in the cache page source. This allows readers to immediately understand which cache is being referred to. See attached example of current situation.

Please please fix this! I'm logging a bunch of caches found during my holiday, and it is annoying to change the date for each log.

No, it's the same link. But I have uncovered more detail to this problem: When regularly loading the Message Center on my computer, it loads 20 conversations. In my case, back up to Jan 11. Now, when I click a link that targets one of these conversations, it works. But when I click a link that targets an older conversation, nothing happens (= the bug described above). Try it with an 'old' conversation and see if you can reproduce this.

I have exactly that kind of link. And I am logged in.

When going from my email "you have a new message from ..." --> "Visit the Message Center to view and reply to this message.", I expect to end up in the conversation. But, the Message Center opens on its base screen instead. A bug?

hmm, not sure about whether it is required: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/grouping-content.html#the-li-element An li element's end tag can be omitted if the li element is immediately followed by another li element or if there is no more content in the parent element. But I applied this and it indeed fixes the problem.

Example cache page: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC8Y395

I have cache pages which have lists of items, which I created like this: <ul> <li>item 1 <li>item 2 <li>item 3 </ul> This nicely worked. Now, when saving my cache page after an edit, the cache editor automatically changes this to: <ul> <li>item 1 <li>item 2 <li>item 3 </li></li></li></ul><li><li><li> which breaks the layout by inserting three additional bullet points. Is this a glitch, or should I re-edit all my cache pages?

The Wilson score is a measure based on the Percentage of Favorites, but corrected for the number of finds. In short, 90 Fav out of 100 Finds gives a better score than 9 out of 10. It works by determining the statistical bandwidth of the mean (90% in the example), then taking the lower bound of it. Or: the score for we’re at least 95% confident that represents the ‘real’ value. For more maths, see https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html .

To clarify, does the map show FPs for those caches that are in the top 10% favorites in that area, OR does it show it for the top 10% favorited caches within the current query?

While I think this is a great addition to the app (well done, very scannable!), I must agree with previous posters: the FP percentage and/or Wilson score is a way better indicator of cache greatness. Otherwise, especially as the total number of FPs awarded grows, the easy park 'n grabs with a funny cache container will always trump the great old multicache with only 50 finds. Perhaps this could be a toggle in the app, as some cachers actually prefer easy funny containers.

Is there a maximum cache page length?

Ja, maar daar trof ik alleen een behoorlijk incomplete lijst. Ik hoopte eigenlijk dat dit openbare informatie zou zijn.

Ben op zoek naar een kaart of bestand met alle ANWB-paddenstoelen in Nederland. Locaties en nummers. Is zoiets vrij beschikbaar?

This turns out to be the problem: the suggestion list in the GC app sometimes produces the wrong result.

Ok, hold on. The user -does- exist now. The GC app was acting up, I guess.

The Lab Cache is called “Ommetje over landgoederen (‘t Harde)” by “user” “jcbets”. Located east of the village ‘t Harde in Gelderland, Netherlands.

Ouch. Too bad. User doesn’t exist. He must have used a nickname for the Lab cache.

Ah, you both suggest that I switch over to the GC app or website and contact the user there. Will do so. I figured there must be an easier way…

I tried to complete an Adventure Lab Cache. One of its stages went missing, so I wasn't able to answer one of the questions. How do I give such feedback to the owner?

Promised you the new geocache with ... well, 400k+ waypoints: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC9JD77 (you don't need to visit them all -- they're part of a puzzle)

Ah, yes: I own one of them: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC8Y39T . For my next project, I was thinking bigger. It will be a mystery that has many, many more waypoints, although they are more like potential waypoints, to be used in puzzle solving. Stay tuned for this one.