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  1. First of all, I would like to repeat previous posts - this idea is not new. Jeremy wrote about this feature back in March 2002. In fact, such an idea seems a little old-fashioned to me today. Yes, it's 2024 and the game could definitely use some innovation. However, I can imagine a truly modern, digital solution: In the cache is a plastic cube with the game logo. I'm attaching my phone to it with the official app on. - "*beep* - connection successful." I stand up with my phone, the app has a logging interface ready. - "Would you like to upload your log?" - "Yes, please. Insert number of find, insert time, new line, found while walking with my son today, nice view, we exchanged toys. Thanks for the cache, end of log." - "Log sent." At this moment, I can see my log in the app, I can upload photos. The log is marked with a green pipe, which confirms that the log was uploaded from the cube, thus clearly confirming I found the geocache. Is this the distant future? It's hard to say. As I found out a few years ago, digital logbooks can already be found in Germany. But so far these are only offline versions, and I don't think anyone is working in cooperation with HQ to develop it into the written above.
  2. This situation has been going on for several years. I also think it would be helpful if the previews were specific again. However, I fear that HQ must had some compelling reasons for removing this feature. So I'm not sure if it's possible to recover it. Sharing the Event on Facebook, 2017/2023:
  3. Something changed? "GCHQ has advised that a fishing "pole" is not considered to be specialised equipment" (New South Wales, wiki.Groundspeak.com)
  4. My personal opinion - it's a violation. Physical Adventures are not allowed since February 10, 2020. We do not know when exactly this Adventure was created. Bonus cache was published in November 2020, but Adventure may be older.
  5. Watchlist button missing.
  6. I guess the heart icon could mean find caches with a certain number of popularity points. The three circles with the multicache icon and the question mark could indicate a connection to the Diverse cacher badge - i.e. finding as many icons as possible. The figures could be related to events, but also to the Teamwork required attribute, or to a feature of the site - adding friends. For the car icon, there is a drive-in cache attribute. The asterisk could stand for D/T. But according to the last article, specifically the sentence "From seeing how many geocaches you can find in a month, to testing how long you can keep up a daily streak", one icon should indicate a daily streak.
  7. By lackeys. For example, if the owner has passed away and the heir has expressed interest in his caches. It usually is: Are you sure you didn't create an adoption request sometime in the past? The adoption request is valid until it is accepted or cancelled. What did Niebustgaard say? Did she find the new adoption request in her email inbox, or when she opened the link geocaching.com/adopt?
  8. Nowadays, I can imagine a more sophisticated solution. No data needed, no smart phone needed. I will give an example from one cache in Czechia. You get to the coordinates, find the camera. You press the button and record the log. And hide the cache. And where's my log? On the YouTube channel of this cache. I think it would be really great to bring back the Webcam icon for this kind of cache. Because this really has nothing to do with the Waymark category of webcams. But of course I can imagine other game innovations. - notifications to the official app, within a radius of your current location - trackables with NFC stickers for faster logging - virtual locationless caches playable in virtual reality - be able to use current location or select location on satellite map, when hiding geocaches; not just gps coordinates and so on. I hope we will see some innovations this year.
  9. I found this list, which presents itself as "copy with GC7G3HV added". After comparing, I see for example that geocache GC44C8 was removed from the official list and included back to statistics. Why? From the outside looking in, it looks like a classic traveling cache. A few other caches I think should be excluded of the stats: GC3220Z - Relay, moving a cuddly toy from the eastern border to the western border of Czechia. GC39788 - Traveling geocacher. Geocache was published with exception, logbook is always with the owner - at home or at events. GC1JH0M - Traveling cache (mostly). There were two film canisters in the beginning - first one on the final coordinates and second one attached to the Travel Bug. In 2014, geocache owner was asked by reviewers to remove the film box from the TravelBug - but that never happened, so 99% of the finds were off the final coordinates. GC486ZC - I am not sure about that, but it looks like copy of already excluded GCV3CA.
  10. These markups have been available for many years and in the past could also be used to format logs or cache descriptions. Support in logs ended after announcement, support in cache description ended without announcement (and cache description then turned into one line without any formatting; it was not a nice job to fix it). So - no one can guarantee how long this "fix" will last, but so far it's still working in hints. If you want documentation, here it is: [b]text[/b] - text will be displayed in bold [i]text[/i] - text will be displayed in italics [b][i]text[/i][/b] - text will be displayed in bold italics (this is to show that markups can be combined with each other) [s]text[/s] - the text will be shown strikethrough [u]text[/u] - text will be displayed underlined [red]text[/red] - the text will be displayed in red (other colour names can be used too: green, blue, black, purple, pink, orange, yellow, white, brown, gold, maroon, navy and others) [code]text[/code] - the text will be displayed in "computer type" [size=3]text[/size] - the text will be displayed in a different size (numbers 1-6 can be used, two is the standard size) [font=Times New Roman]text - the text will be displayed in a different font (Arial, Arial Black, Book Antiqua, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Impact, Tahoma, Verdana and others can also be used); there is no closing markup [/font], to end writing with the given font you must use [font=another font] [url=http://mapy.cz]Map portal[/url] - view as link - Map portal [center]text[/center] - text will be centered (right justified in the case of [right]) [br] - wraps the text on a new line at the given point [*] - wraps the text on a new line at the given place with a bullet at the beginning (if [list=1] is not used) [quote]text[/quote] - the text will be displayed as a quote (between the two lines below the quote) [list=1][*]text1[*]text2[/list] - the text will be displayed as a numbered list [:)] [:D] [8D] [:I] [:P] [}:)] [:O] [;)] [:o)] [B)] [8] [:(] [8)] [:(!] [xx(] [|)] [:X] [^] [V] [?] turns into these images: [text] - any other text in square brackets will not be encrypted, but directly displayed (without clicking on Decrypt) There is also an [img] markup, but its use is somewhat complicated. It must be in another bracket, the link must not contain http (or it is automatically recognized as a link), and the link must be encrypted via ROT13. As a result, it still does not insert the image, but only links to it. Example: [[img]//vzt.trbpnpuvat.pbz/pnpur/ynetr/2596qo28-8p1p-4s01-o507-ss5r863752o6.wct[/img]] will be displayed as [Image]. Warning - I recommend to not forget to close individual markups. Not closing a markup (for example missing [/b] or [/red]) will affect the display of all parts further below the listing, unless they have a CSS-styled appearance! In my case, they are not only gone, but changed to 
. I agree that it's a bug and programmers should fix it.
  11. These icons are probably not meaningful. The CITO icon is also missing, but there is an Adventures icon (and this souvenir is not for the launch of the new Adventure).
  12. If it isn't on thé package, try "Retrieve your activation code" at https://www.geocaching.com/track/activate.aspx.
  13. I can confirm a similar problem. In my Cache owner dashboard I see 55 most recently written logs on my caches. I'm not sure why 55, but that's beside the point. Below them I see two logs from 2017. As far as I can tell from their codes (GLQ6RVDK and GLQZ5H27), these logs were really posted in 2017 (we're now at codes ~GL18MXXXX). EDIT 12/26: Looks like it's fixed now. Now I see only new logs that end with the text "Displaying 34 logs. Thank you for being a cache owner!"
  14. I didn't change the log type. I'd just like to know what the options are for finding a Signal’s Labyrinth item. Post a Found it log - yes, I can get a goat. Post a Didn't find it log - yes, I can get a goat. Post a Write note log - ? Post a Will Attend log - ?
  15. Ok, I hope my ideas don't end up with a penalty point from some anonymous moderator again. "Use current coordinates" When setting up a new geocache, even in 2022, we can enter location only using GPS coordinates. This was understandable years ago, but nowadays most of us find and create caches with our smartphones. Similarly, fairly detailed satellite maps already exist. So it would be good to have a "Use current coordinates" button when creating a listing, or to be able to select a location on the satellite map. Yes, we can (and do) do this with for example Mapy.cz and copy it, but why? Show something new The "lab cache" was said to be used to test new features. It's been a few years and the "labs" are still Adventures. There's nothing new here? What about the new attribute promised as "coming soon" in October 2021? What about these tips for new geocache type? I think such a thing would motivate players to create. Maker Madness 2 In 2014, ten days in March/April were designated as Cache Hiders' Days. On these days, it was possible to organize an event included in a special bookmark, and each participant received a virtual souvenir for attending. In total, 972 events took place. I think it would be useful to repeat such an event - to show cache makers how to do it. And having such an event with a unique icon? Great!
  16. For what types of logs can I get this item? I've already got two for DNFs. Does this also work for Write Note or Will Attend?
  17. Will the address in the address bar change? At the moment there are two types of log forms. I don't know which one you're using. Do any of these links work for you? https://www.geocaching.com/play/geocache/optout/8820990 https://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?ID=8820990&lcn=1 https://www.geocaching.com/play/geocache/gc9zwr0/log
  18. It would be advisable to do something about this type of advertising. The first ad is disgusting, but the second is really dangerous. Back in August, one older player asked us (we're just a geocaching blog and e-shop, but players often write to us with common questions about the game) how to get Signal the Frog moving in Signal's Labyrinth. There was a big green start button next to the maze, in the same white frame, so he clicked it, thinking that the frog would show him his progress through the maze in the animation, or that he would be allowed to control the frog with the arrow keys and get some bonus points for successfully completing the virtual maze. Instead of an animation, however, he was met with a kind of payment gateway that asked for his credit card number. He thought to himself: Could Signal's Labyrinth be a paid feature? Fortunately, he asked us at that moment and we stopped him just in time. We can tell ourselves that this was an isolated incident, and all the players are smart (and English-speaking) enough to not enter their card details. But it's the end of October and I keep seeing that ad. So I'm afraid the advertiser has some money from this ad.
  19. There are 15 adventures in our city (Czech Republic) at the moment, 7 of them from this year. This is a good result in itself. Admittedly, it could be "better" because local players have received about 100 credits. However, we have to take into account that Adventures are a different game. This can be seen in the profiles of local Adventures searchers, some of whom have last found of real cache a long time ago. I would liken it to handing out non-transferable vouchers for a pedicure at a hair salon. There are bound to be people in the hair salon who will use the voucher. But not all of them.
  20. It's not supposed to. In this topic from February 2021 was written: "We have removed deadlines for the creation of Adventures. Adventure creation, and Public Adventures, have no expiration date, although if there are issues they may be turned off at the discretion of Geocaching HQ. "
  21. You don't need to change the time zone or home coordinates, the date change was done in a different way. I won't present that method here, as most of the people here are of the opinion that it is a forbidden practice. Personally, however, I think that the cause should be addressed, not the effect, which is the attempt to change the date to the correct one. That is, to prevent the publication of events that take place more than one day, which seems to be illegal. If you ask somewhere else, someone will probably direct you to a pictorial guide to date change created by the organizer of an earlier Maze. However, not here.
  22. Not exactly. The type called lab cache was presented to the public on August 17, 2013. This type of cache was intended to test new gameplay possibilities. The first thing tested were temporary physical megaevent caches. There was also an activity called I <3 Geocaching, where each player with a premium membership could create one cache for one player. He could make the link to the listing available to many players, but only the fastest player could log the cache. The first 250 players were selected to create their first Adventures in February 2019.
  23. I'm sure the weather played a role. However, I would like to know if the 2013 record is the sum of players who logged at least one cache with a given date on a given day - or just the sum of players who logged at least one cache with a given date on any other days? There are many players who postpone writing logs to the next weekend. Especially now that many foreign players are still in the US. Is there any possibility that in two weeks we will know that the record has been broken?
  24. Last night I created a survey question in a Facebook group Czech Geocaching, because the players from the state with one of the largest numbers of Biltema caches are definitely the ones who should comment on it. The question was: Biltema caches (and similar, for example in wells) a, should have their own attribute b, should be unique cache type with icon c, don't need any distinction So far 370 players have participated in the poll and the results are as follows: Only 4.6% of players think that the current situation is sufficient. For the remaining 95.4% of players, the current situation is insufficient. This number may seem frightening to the uninitiated, but Biltemas are really something that has been resonating in the Czech gaming community for a long time. This does not mean, however, that the Czechs are fans of Biltemas. Of course, there are many supporters. Mostly those, I think, have chosen the should have their own attribute (59,6%). These players have invested some money in a rod or telescopic pole, so they would like to find caches where they can use this tool. The attribute is ideal for this. Another group of players, on the other hand, hates Biltemas and would like to filter them out. If someone doesn't like climbing caches or earth caches, he can simply filter them out through the terrain rating or icon. It is practically impossible to filter out Biltems at this time. And without an external program it would be difficult even if the attribute would exist. I think it's mostly people like that who chose the option should be unique cache type with icon (35,8%). I personally found the first biltema cache in October 2012 in Poland. It's been a long time. At the moment I consider more important that we have more Biltema caches in the Czech Republic than Wherigo caches, Virtual caches and Challenge caches together. So I see a reason even if no one new Biltema cache will be created. I don't think it's just about how to get the final coordinates. If player has to complete a task or answer any questions, then it is Virtual cache. If player has to answer questions about geology, then it's Earth cache. If player has to play a game on the phone, then it can be Wherigo cache. If player has to complete a task before finding (and it's on posted coordinates), then it is Challenge cache (they don't have their own icon, but they must be Mystery). If player can print a stamp in his diary (and it's on posted coordinates), then it is Letterbox cache. If player has to fishing - it sounds logical to me. And to the arguments that then anything could have its own attribute/icon: Yes, the player can also dive or climb a tree at the given coordinates, but on the one hand it is usual to "get yourself to the cache" and on the other hand it is easily detectable from the map according to the terrain stars. And yes, the cache in the pipe into which the water must be poured is also "getting the cache to the player", but such a cache is one in a thousand. It's really just a matter of having some way to filter and filter out this very common type of geocache. At the moment, there is no one method.
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