BraillerCD

This may be sour grapes, but because I’ve cached for 9 years I have few caches I haven’t found near me. So I have to travel a far greater distance just to grab these caches. Geocaching has created a souvenir series that penalizes those of us who have caches a while.

Because of your desire to "improve things " you're just making things worse. First you screw with the old geocaching App by making an inferior one. Now you want to do the same thing to your website. It works just fine. No need to turn it into a clone of your app. I now use another (and far superior) App for caching. It does everything the classic one did and more. Can't stand the new profile page either. The new way you have to post a log is lame. I'll keep going to the old pages as long as its allowed, after that I guess I'll log only from my (superior) App If it ain't broke don't fix it.

I would just like to be able to search for caches by name. And by "hidden by". Can that still be done?

And I do. My mom was the one to mention this in the first place but she didn't enjoy it as much as me after a while. They [parents] helped me place and read the guidelines for placing caches. They know what's up, they just aren't as into it. Crazypig88 I think it it's great that your parents did that for you. That is what it's supposed to be. Educated and informed. And you can be contacted through the web site. Which again is my point if you posted a log on a cache and I had an issue with it I could ask you to edit it. With the app a unceremoniously delete it and the user gets mad. I should not have to use the logs to have a two way conversation with a cacher. Again kudos to your parents for taking the time to teach you

Ok one last try. I want to protect my caches the best I can. I want to be able to contact catchers, either through their own emails or there parents. As stated before, there are no garrantees with that either, but it's something and I think I should be able to if they can go to my caches. For me the alternative is to make all my caches PMO caches. They don't appear on the intro or the standard app if you aren't premium members. I would hate to do that. Why is a email so much to ask for.

I know it's not all kids and surely there are many uninformed adults also messing things up. I see the keyword as "UNINFORMED" . This is in terms of usage and I can't imagine that this is being adheared to. Minors. Our services are not targeted towards, nor intended for use by, anyone under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you are not permitted to use our services. If you are under the age of 18 but at least 13, you may only use our services under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to be bound by this Agreement. I know this is just legal crap but this was groundspeaks way of protecting themselves . That is on both apps and on the website. If they have this clause then there should be an adults email required. Then if an adult or a kid does something wrong at least you might be able to set them straight Anyway I'm done complaining . I don't see any changes coming unless Groundspeak thinks it won't hurt profits. This is all about the money. But it will hurt the game if it's not overhauled .

I have been having lots of issues with the frappies (free app). Hey names get started somehow!!! Anyway, bad logs, say they find and don't, at least no log signed and unable to communicate with these people is just the tip of the iceberg . I just downloaded the app to check it out. Not impressed at all. It has some videos also kind of lame. Any kid with a smart phone can do this it surly should be limited to adults. Not that all adults act like adults. Also it should last 14 days (or some reasonable time). And then have to purchase the paid app. I may have to make all my caches premium just so they can't be viewed by members and the frappies.

Is this app hurting or helping the game

Well that now makes sense to me. Thanks to all that answered

You misunderstand please go to your home page where you can manage your favorites. Click on the link "How is this calculated?" and read what it says.

Why was the way of getting a Fav point changed to such a rediculus format. The only way to get a Fav is to get a FTF. That's insane. If you thought we were getting too many Fave points why not just increase the number of caches needed. I live in an area with two other cachers, they are retired so any cache that comes out during the week I don't stand a chance at a FTF. Increasing the number needed to get a Fav point would be fair too all.

New maps work very poorly or not at all on my IPhone.