Lineflyer

Klar, aber warum sollte für Listings etwas anderes als "Netiquette" gelten als für Logs.

Ich denke, es ist schon besser, dass die Geocaching-Guidelines vorsehen, dass Geocaching neutral sein soll, auch wenn es manchmal in den Fingern juckt. https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines#solicitation

Naja...sehe ich im Grunde ähnlich. Aber es gibt ja inzwischen schon Möglichkeiten der klima-neutralen Mobilität, die in Zukunft auch immer verbreiteter sein werden. Von daher vielleicht auch mit dem richtigen Auto in Zukunft eine Geocaching-Möglichkeit ohne schlechtes Gewissen.

FYI: The problem was fixed. Thank you!

I would like to add here, that I deem this "automatic ignoring" of older field notes as problematic: I just used the new drafts page to upload to field note files I still have to log. Unfortunately I firstly uploaded the newer file with finds from November 2021. Now when trying to upload my finds from October 2021 the file is uploaded but responded with "Could not find new drafts to upload.". Is this the effect other users reported here, or is there only a problem in my file? If this is "intended behavior" its a bug form my perspective. Just uploading the files in different sequence should not block older drafts. Please instead re-introduce the "only newer" option.

Exactly. It used to show the name of that stage instead of "undefined" with the old ALC app version.

I noticed a small bug/problem with the recent Adventure Lab app version on Android (App version: 1.3.18, build: 2567). Hope this is the right place to report it: When I click on a stage of an adventure, the small "navigation" icon (Arrow to the right) is shown. Clicking it offers me to open my preferred external navigation. Up to now all the navigation apps (like Google Maps, Radar apps, etc.) used to show the name of that stage at the provided coordinates, now it always shows "Undefined". As I used to store those navigation targets in those navigation apps for better overview, this is a problem as they now all are named "Undefined". Can Groundspeak please look into that and fix the bug, that the stage name is no longer handed over?

Hi Moun10Bike, thanks for your feedback! That sounds reasonable, was only kind of unexpected for me.

Just noticed a small bug: When I post a log for a cache and the log date is some days ago and, while composing it, also select "Report a problem" my log is posted with the desired date but the maintenance log is posted on the current date. In my case it was a "Note" with reported problem "Container might be missing" for the March, 10th. My note showed up on March, 10th but the maintenance log on March, 14th (today). It's reproducible (tested on an owned caches).

That are quite useful attributes. Most liked change to the website since a longer time. Thank you!

Indeed...I will give it some more tries. Maybe it was just me this time.

Thanks for the info. However back to topic: Wherigo.com seems to be down again...

Well, that is what I call a fast reaction ! Thanks! BTW: I also tried to look at https://status.geocaching.com to find some info, but seems this has a problem as well (HSTS - Certificate error).

Since yesterday evening (CET) I am unable to reach Wherigo.com. I get an error "connection reset by server while loading the page". Two other users I contacted confirmed this. Is there a known issue?

Indeed, this is currently in beta testing. You can subscribe to the beta testing program here: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/menion.android.whereyougo

Groundspeak should also consider, that millions of older mobile devices out there are not supporting anything higher than TSL1.0 (e.g. Android devices below version 5.0). You can easily see this in the chapter "Handshake simulation" on https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.geocaching.com I wasn't able to access the website anymore yesterday with my android tablet running 4.x.

I bet this has to do with the app users. Apparently it's a bug which will be fixed. That would be really appreciated.

Hello, I have noticed that all coordinates for waypoints are now showing up in decimal format in the listing. Was that intentional? I would strongly prefer the MinDec format as it used to be and still is for the listing coords of the cache. Best regards, Lineflyer

Is this somehow related to the fact that the site is really slow since some time (Accessing from Germany, it varies between response time of 25sec up to unavailable).

I was also keen to get a souvenir as I made it to the small country of Luxembourg today. Looking into my souvenirs I have seen that there is no souvenir for that country....it is really a pitty, that there are only suovenir quite randomly spreaded on differnt countries. I would also like to see Groundspeak completing the souvenirs for each country/region you might visit. That would look just fantastic in my souvenir gallery and would remember me of so many nice places.

Ich glaube das größte Problem bei solchen Vorkommnissen ist, dass sich beide Seiten (Cacher und Reviewer) nicht im klaren darüber sind, wie man hier vorgeht. Könnte Groundspeak nicht hierzu mal eine Guideline verfassen, wie bei solchen Beschwerden/Problemen einheitlich zu verfahren ist. Dann hätten a. die Reviewer einen Leitfaden, damit gleiches auch gleich behandelt wird b. die Cacher und Owner einen klaren Einblick wie was wo gemeldet und geregelt wird. Was dann genau dort drin steht ist eigentlich zweitrangig (direkt archiveren, aber Platz freihalten / nur disablen / zuerst den Owner anschreiben ), Hauptsache es ist verbindlich und beide Seiten wissen Bescheid womit sie bei Problemen rechnen müssen und wie vorzugehen ist. Oder gibt es sowas schon und wir diskutieren hier umsonst ?

Ich verstehe das Vorgehen auch nicht, die Caches sofort zu Archivieren. Mit Sicherheit ist es nicht in Ordnung fremdes Eigentum oder Bäume zu beschädigen. Was mich allerdings stört, ist das es wohl kein generelles Vorgehen in solchen Fällen gibt. Warum kann Groundspeak es nicht einheitlich so regeln, dass im Falle von Beschwerden der Owner kontaktiert wird (und ggf. zeitgleich der Cache erstmal deaktiviert wird um weiteren Schaden zu vermeiden). Dann kann man die Sache in Ruhe klären und ggf. die Stationen korrigieren und es kann vielleicht sogar weitergehen. Ja, man kann auch Caches wieder aus dem Archiv holen aber es geht hier auch um die Außenwirkung auf die Cachergemeinde. Eine Zwangsarchivierung erscheint mir als ein Gegeneinander-Arbeiten antstatt das Thema miteinander zu klären. Ist der Owner uneinsichtig oder wird trotz Aufforderung nicht nachgebessert, steht der Weg der Zwangsarchivierung immer noch offen (und ist dann auch gerechtfertigt).

Hi there, just a quick question: If I receive a premium membership gift well before the expiry of my existing premium memberhip period, what will happen ? I expect the current end-date is just extended by one-year, but I cant find any confirmation for that on the website. Regards, Lineflyer