Prime Suspect

We had many, many, many discussions about these, too. In the end, though, no one could come up with a better design. I'd love to see something better than these and will let the geniuses out there in the community suggest improvements! Not everything can be iconified. Some subjects just have too many elements to them to boil them down to one tiny image. I'd just have a pointer that moves along the slider, and gray dots on the 9 stops. As the slider moves, a short paragraph in a box above the slider would change, with the text indicating the attributes of that particular Difficulty level. As to the text used, the ClayJar descriptions are a good starting point.

How do you define a multi-stage night cache as being different from a Traditional night cache, or a Puzzle night cache? It seems to me that it's better handled as an attribute.

The Hide and Seek A Cache page has numerous search options you can use.

Even if a smartphone has the identical chip set as a dedicated GPS, it's still not going to be able to match it because of the antenna differences. A dedicated GPS can have a much larger antenna that's specifically tuned to GPS signals. Smartphones are trying to pack as much electronics into as small a space as possible, so antennas are small, and often have to accommodate multiple frequency bands.

The cache has a gallery. It's right here. Just click the View Gallery link on the cache page (in the Navigation box).

It's nearly impossible to move from the top of browser to the page content without activating the drop-down menus (which often block what you're trying to click). Please make sure the mouse has hovered an area for at least a half second before activating a drop-down. It can't be done in pure CSS, but is relatively easy in javascript, even with multiple menus.

I've noticed that since the last update, text entered into textarea boxes appears in a noticeably larger font than the rest of the site. I assume this was not a deliberate change, since the same change was not made to any other text entry fields.

Select "English" from the language list in the lower left.

No.

The menus that appear when you roll over the heading (Learn, Your Profile, Community, etc.) don't work when viewing an individual log page.

If you're going to keep the unit a while, Garmin's Lifetime Update program is a good deal. For a single purchase, you get at least 4 map and POI upgrades every year, for as long as you own the unit. Updates are via the 'net. They don't mail out discs. The files are big, so a broadband connection is highly recommended.

I find that having full access to the Charter Member Spa, and free use of the Charter Member yacht and private jet, to be quite sufficient. Oh, wait. I forgot that those are only available to the "First 5k" subset of the Charter Membership. I think everyone after number 5,000 got steak knives or something. Maybe it was a discount coupon for steak knives. Or it might have been a picture of steak knives, come to think about it.

And which cache are you referring to? The original, which is still there, but hard to find, the first throw-down cache, or the second throw-down cache? (Yes, this actually happened.) And then there's the follow-up issue when that happens - the owner checks his cache, and sees that a lot of people have logged it on line, but don't have a signature in the cache log (because they signed cache #2 or #3). So he starts deleting logs, with the inevitable blow-back. And that's what happens when people replace caches they don't own.

It's not okay to abdicate your maintenance responsibilities. It's both a bad idea, and against the guidelines.

Except that the script uses unsafeWindow, which has security concerns.

That won't work. Waypoints are not stored in the memory that you have access to via USB connection. One thing you might try is to click Find twice, to bring up the list of the last 50 waypoints you visited. I believe this list is maintained separately from the internal waypoints (meaning it's a actual list of waypoints, and not just pointers to the originals).

No you don't. Click "View Logbook"; Click to show last page; Read FTF log. So now it takes two actions where it use to take one (VIEW ALL). Not a fan of the "dynamic" logs. Yes, and it's probably faster to get to the FTF log, since you don't have wait for all other logs to load.

Clearing your browser cache will fix the non-loading problem.

No you don't. Click "View Logbook"; Click to show last page; Read FTF log.

Well, yes, I'm wondering what this Groundspeak policy has to do with your "confidence" in your local reviewers. Seems to me it just means they're up to date on current policies. And are you really surprised that a company has a policy of NOT advocating stealing others' property?

Part of the problem is that the site actively encourages you to "spend" a favorite point as soon as it's earned. That gives a lot of people the idea that they then have to choose one of the last 10 caches they've found as a favorite, even it they all sucked. And a lot of people think they need to favorite any caches that they're FTF on. This results in a lot of lame caches getting Favorited. Until a cache gets at least 3 points, it doesn't mean much in my book.

Both the (free) Sudoku games on my phone have solvers built into them. And Sudoku caches are so 2007.

If you have to work out a puzzle, it's probably a Puzzle. The issue you may have, is one of GPS usage. At some point in the search, the use of exact GPS coordinates is required. You text doesn't really say that the posted coordinates lead you directly to the actual puzzle location. If it does, you're OK (and you need to make it clear in the description, or your reviewer will probably question you about it). If not, you'll need to fix it.

The attributes of a cache are generally not taken into consideration, because many of them are changeable at the whim of the cache owner. The other cache may be an easy Regular size today, but could be a difficult nano tomorrow, if the owner decides to change it.

When the gallery system was first set up, the LZW patent was still in effect, and GIF file were disallowed. The last patent, worldwide, expired on August 11, 2006, so there hasn't been a reason to disallow GIFs for almost 5 years, and there's NEVER been a reason to disallow PNG images (which can support animation, though it's unclear what browsers support it - I know Firefox does).