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May or may not be related: I did not receive the Blue Switch souvenir despite completing an Adventure Lab Location on May 3, as listed on the blog and souvenir descriptions.

Yesterday, at about 23:45 PST, I posted the caches that resulted in three souvenirs: Deuces Wild - 2s Day Kilimanjaro Summit Everest Summit. The first two showed up in my profile dated 02/22/22 - which is correct. The third souvenir was, and remains, dated 02/23/22 - that is, the next day, which it wasn't yet. Everest Summit, being qualified for by 23:45 on 02/22/22 and being *posted* at that time, should be dated 02/22/22 as well. Please see profile and attached screenshots showing the local date/time at time of souvenir posting. Never seen this before. Don't understand how it would have happened.

Using Google Chrome on an HP Envy laptop running Windows 8.1 (updated to most recent patch). Just verified my Home Location as set in Settings drop down is set to my current coords here in Redmond, WA. I have several other location-dependent websites I visit using the same browser, and I have *never* had anything come up that is that far off. MapQuest and Google Maps, both of which I've used recently, have no problem placing me in Redmond. Once I've pulled up the correct caches, even geocaching.com seems to know where I am (as based on distances and directions to the caches listed). I've tried clearing the browser cache regularly (it's part of my secure computing routine, anyway). Doesn't change things. Just tried entering "Saltwater" in the main search page ("Find a Geocache"), and the first return was in New South Wales, Australia. The distance listed was 1.9 mi east. As far as I could tell, in the first page of results, everything was in NSW, and none of the caches included the term "Saltwater" in their names. I and my computer are currently in Redmond, WA, USA. Never even been to Australia. And yes, what you're suggesting works... it's just incredibly frustrating (and absurd, for me, as a database programmer of long standing) that I can't get a relevant set of results from entering what I'm seeking in the main search box. Why even have a main search box, when what users really need to do is make their specific entries in that second page? Just a wasted click-through. Thanks for the swift reply.

Very, very, very frustrated by the new search function. Here's an example of why: every single time I try to search on a location, I get a default location in Kansas, regardless of whether I put in a state. I just tried to locate the Washington State Parks 100 geotour cache in Saltwater State Park, WA. I don't know what city that's in, so I tried just entering "Saltwater State Park, WA". And got a bunch of results for nothing at all mentioning Saltwater anything, IN FRICKIN KANSAS. Every single time. I have no default filters set up. My computer "knows" my location (Redmond, WA). I don't want to see all the geocaches within 10 miles of Kanona, KS every single time I try to search for gcs in Washington state. And yes, I'm a premium member. Still doesn't work well for me. Here's a thought: set it up so that, when someone enters a *state* name (province, whatever), the search engine recognizes the state/province name and actually attempts to return gcs in that state. Then, if it's wrong, the user can go back and twiddle the filters to home in. Oh, and then I tried to offer this feedback. I clicked Contact Us. On the left-hand menu, there was a link below the Search (for relevant topics) box named "Website." Well, that's what I wanted to offer feedback on, so I clicked it ...and it took me to the website home page. So I back-arrowed and typed "website search function feedback" ... and got a short list of forum topics, not a single one of which had anything to do with the website search function. Not a one! Seriously, how hard is it to search for a string of text in a text field and return a list of items that actually contain one or more of the words in the text string? I could understand fully if even *one* word matched one in my search string - but none did. Nor did the topics returned have anything to do with each other. Sheesh.

Agreed - seems as if Phillip ought to, but perhaps just give blanket permission to whoever is next to find it? Given that it's such a difficult/dangerous one to approach. Or perhaps not *remove* but *move* it, give it its own cache status somewhere else on MB? As a relative newbie, I'm a bit baffled about just how COs can "maintain" caches such as this one, the one on the ISS, etc

Congratulations! As for those making snarkies about Philipp & "false" find on 31 July this year, suggest you follow Philipp's example and edit your posts to update for corrected information. Philipp has updated his "find" to "DNF" with an explanation and well-deserved congrats to DeepButi.