pgavlak

Bumping this thread, noticed this as I was looking through some of my old logs. I feel like the Unicode emojis change the meaning in some contexts, plus I was a big fan of some of the old custom images expressions, as they felt iconic for geocaching - now it's just plain regular emojis like everywhere else.

I never knew this page existed before (I don't have many hides), but this is a look I could absolutely get behind. It is in the new style, using similar amounts of space as the new search, but with a load of useful information! Compact D/T/Size, info about TBs, last found, last maintained (could be changed to "found by me"), and the "last 3 logs" is a great design choice. It looks like it even has pagination (if someone with more than 10 hides could confirm the functionality that'd be great). It's only really missing region information. Please, consider mimicking this design! It does have a modern feel and in my opinion it looks quite good.

I want to add my name to list of cachers displeased by this change. I understand the desire towards unifying all search processes in one system, but I believe the "All finds"/"All hides" pages to be deserving enough of a special treatment. Like others here, I didn't realize they were considered a search at all! Apart from my personal issues with the new design (entirely subjective opinions, but it's crazy how it occupies double the space while displaying *less* information), I believe it's missing a bunch of features loved by many, which have been pointed out multiple times in the course of this thread. Being able to map my finds, and easily filter them are nice added features, but I don't think the loss of other information is worth it. Keeping all of the previous features while adding these would've probably been a praised change! The old style pages have a lot of available horizontal space that could be used for this. The most egregious change change probably is the "endless scroll" feature - many cachers now have thousands of caches that simply don't appear in the *All finds* page! A simple pagination would solve a big part of the complaints - or even a toggle to switch back to the old version while new features are being worked on. It saddens me how Groundspeak seems to make changes against the wishes/opinions of so many very experienced/dedicated cachers - I believe the great majority of these are displeased with the changes. PS. The new format barely even has space for ads ;D

There has been no explanation of why the webpage needs to follow the app even thoug the webpage has been there much before the app. I think this is a big reason why people are upset, changes are just given without any explanation or argument (or minimal ones). I understand Groundspeak doesn't need to explain these things, but considering this is a game with such a big community involvement it would be nice of them to at least defend their position when such abrupt changes are made.

Similar to that, the found smiley becomes too small and ugly (IMO) at those levels. It has to fit within the white outline and it's just too small. And the shade of yellow also changed, now it's too "lemon-y", it was warmer and better before. It'd be nice to have and option to change to the old style. Found areas of the map (and completed geoarts) don't look as pretty as they used to. This is just me though.

I agree with most of this thread. At smaller zoom levels the icon for found and hidden caches has to fit inside the icon circle, making it too small and ugly, they don't stand out as much as they used to. Also, the fact that all the icons are circles now makes it way harder to distinguish cache types at first glance, especially in traditional vs mystery caches. At least put an option somewhere to change to the old style, please. And the new MEGA and GIGA icons... just no.