Mister Doctor
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13 minutes ago, zeze1 said:
Like this?
Oh - my bad! I'd taken "Last found" to mean "Most recent log for cache" but now I see it means "Date found by user".
Thanks for showing me this (and I see if I reduce my page zoom I get this full display too)
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User Finds not showing found date
I couldn't see a reference to this in this forum, so apologies if it has already been discussed.
One thing I really miss in the new search output is when I am looking at another user's profile and click on their (All Geocache Finds) link. With the old format, I could see when they had found each cache, which then enabled me to scroll through the cache page and find their log to read.
I don't know of another way to locate a user's log for a particular cache.
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Not sure if it’s the new bonus cache attribute or solution checker attribute, but when I open these cache types in the app and go to look at the attribute list the app crashes.
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Putting this one out there. This really is a multi-cache, but it works online too. Come visit Australia
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1 hour ago, cerberus1 said:
The whole idea of free trials is thinking that the person will see the benefits and become PMs.
During that time, you have access to "advanced" as well as premium member-only caches, PQs, notifications, advanced searches, lists, full function on their apps, and yeah, favorite points.
I don't believe many shell out 30 bucks to become PM for FPs, but for the helpful "extras" to access caches.
Agreed. And after the trial I could see the benefits of all of that once they disappeared again. So it then it moved on to how best to afford membership.
If I were offering free trials as a business, the motivation of course would be to convert people to being paid members.
As it stands now this path isn’t clear. Rather than the trial educating a basic member so they can make a well-informed decision to become Premium, there is a disincentive to try it out because of the loss of FP benefits if you don’t then pay immediately.
If you’re not able to pay up straight away the message is that you’re better off waiting until you can and trying to figure out somehow whether it’s right for you on your own. I can imagine this taking longer, but in the end you end up paying the membership AND being awarded all the prorated FPs.
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6 hours ago, kunarion said:
The Help Center seems to not be official policy, but this may be a more thorough caveat:
"If you found caches as a Basic member, you are prorated Favorite points the first time you become a Premium member. If your subscription lapses for any reason, you will not earn Favorite points until you renew your Premium membership, at which time the Favorite points will start accruing again at one Favorite point per 10 finds." ...
... But if your case is adjusted and you're awarded points, a lot of others will expect it, too, beyond just a "trial PM" situation.
I get that Groundspeak wants subscribers to keep on subscribing, but in a trial you aren’t yet a subscriber. When you subscribe to something money is involved.
In fact, I agree that getting prorated favourite points in a free trial is unnecessary. It would be a far better incentive to prorate them only when you become a paid member.
This is where I (and I’m sure others) have lost out. Particularly if we have still been finding caches after the trial whilst weighing up the pros and cons of Premium membership.
Would it be so bad to prorate favourite points to a lot of others in a similar position? These are committed cachers who haven’t dropped out of the game, but instead have gone on to be paying members. They’re not asking for free points, they’ve still made the finds required to earn them. Surely giving them these FP to award can only be good for geocaching?
It’s also clear you can only get a single free trial, so this situation is quite specific to the gap between a trial and paid membership.
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I’m lucky that in my area there are many terrific caches which have meant I’ve given out all the FP in my account. I could easily give out more - thanks for the offer
I’ve been emailing Geocaching HQ support, and then my local reviewer suggested I also post to the forums.
My issue is really that it wasn’t clear to me that a Premium trial came with conditions. The main one being that if I didn’t then purchase membership there would be a penalty.
In general I really love what Groundspeak is doing, and am a big fan of the game. In this instance I think they got it wrong and as a result it’s taken some of the shine off being a member.
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I want to make a case for obtaining 20 favorite points I believe I’m entitled to. Had anyone else been in a similar position?
About a year ago, with around 300 finds, I trialled Premium membership for a month. At the time I received the 30 prorated favorite points that were due to those finds.
I wasn’t in a position then to purchase Premium membership, but a year later I was gifted Premium for my birthday. By that time I had made a 500 finds, however I did not receive the additional 20 favorite points I had earned.
I am aware of the condition that states that if your paid membership lapses you do not earn FP in the interim. However, I had not ever been paying member. I was exploring a free trial, and a trial by definition leads either to taking up an offer or not. At that time I didn’t take up the offer and so a paid membership never lapsed.
It’s disappointing that the moment when I was able to be a paying member was also when my benefits were reduced.
I am a strong advocate for cache quality and am keen to recognise quality caches I had found. I have 53 hides myself which have earned 728 FP and 3 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards over the past 2.5 years.
Hoping to find a way to claim back these points
Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
Mister Doctor
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This is an update to a previous email.
Can I just say your Wherigo kit program has been a dream to use!
As a Mac user with an iPhone I greatly appreciate it when platforms just work (a rare occurrence in my experience). I'm putting together my first Wherigo as a tour with a puzzle at the end and the Question & Answer Kit was super easy to work with. Right-clicking to create and edit zones was intuitive, and being able to zoom in on the satellite map meant the zones were pretty much bang on target.
Exporting to the emulator couldn't have been easier and it gave me real confidence that the final version would work in the field - which it did!
In that regard, I was pleasantly surprised and then impressed that I could export in gwc format and be running the cartridge on my phone prior to official publication. This was really fantastic. I've just come back from a "live" test in the field and can't believe how true to my plan the cartridge is running. Even for a couple of zones that I realised could have had better placement, the drag-and-drop ability to correct their position on the map was crazy easy!
I've had some formatting issues, which could be iOS-related. I initially thought I was unable to enter hard returns. I've now published my cartridge to Wherigo.com and have narrowed down the problem to a formatting susceptibility within message actions. I don't seem to have problems with formatting and punctuation within zone titles or zone descriptions. Everything also seems fine within question actions. However, within message actions I lose hard returns and in the Wherigo.com output cartridge all my punctuation is replaced with question marks.
I think I can work around these issues, because hyphens seem to be unaffected. So I've either removed all punctuation or used hyphens within my message actions.
This is just a comment to let you know, thanks again for a great product!
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[Bug] New logging workflow: Cannot edit my own "Reviewer Note"
in Website
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I agree with the other posters - for more complex caches I generally build the Reviewer note alongside the cache page and the cache container, with refinements to one triggering changes in the others as I go.
It's very frustrating that I now can't edit the in-progress Reviewer note, and my only workaround is to copy all the text, delete the old note, paste the text into a new note and continue. I then also have to reupload any supporting images which get lost in the process.
Please fix
Thanks