[Release Notes (Website: New Search) - March 11, 2015]

Don`t know if it was mentioned already, but if I search for an archived cache using the exact GC-code I don`t get this archived cache in the result, which was possible before.

 

So how can I look up archived caches now?

[Release Notes - July 29, 2014]

Don`t know if it had been mentioned before, but I think plain text emails would be a great step into an even brighter future for all of us!

[Release Notes - July 23, 2014]

Can`t contribute anything new, as all of my thoughts have been written here already by other users, but as you don`t seem to mind to annoy me, paying customer, with unexpected and uncommunicated changes I feel that I have to state them here again, also on my behalf:

 

Add me to the list of those who want "Plain text / NO HTML" in emails.

 

Well thank you Groundspeak to completly destroy my email system... I had filters for various email types, scripts that extract relevant information from the email... and all is lost and I must write all of this again...

Could you, please, next time release announcement BEFORE you release the update, to give people time to prepare for the change, when you must constantly change things (to the worse, by my opinion)? These sort of unannounced changes drives people crazy...

 

Thank you.

 

 

 

* the prepended tag was VERY useful ([GEO], [LOG], etc)

* the most important pieces of information should come first, and ideally the subject should not be very natural-language

* the subject line can quickly get far too long; as with others, my email program cuts off the subject line (or there's limited realestate to display it) so key bits of information are not visible

 

Old: [LOG] Owner: username found cachename (cachetype)

New: Owner Notification: cachename (gccode)

New is both less informational and less ordered. Including the GC code is good though. Big step down.

Suggestion: [LOG] Owner: username found cachename (gccode)

 

Old: [GEO] Notify: reviewername published cachename

New: New cachetype: cachename (gccode), distance/bearing

Not as bad. Less wordy, more information. No tag though and (as above) doesn't standard out as much.

(minor) Suggestion: [GEO] New cachetype: cachename (gccode) distance/bearing

 

Old: [LOG] Watchlist: username logtype phrase cachename (eg: Username couldn't find cachename)

New: Watchlist Notification: cachename (gccode) has a new logtype log from username

Old way was much more terse and readable. "Notification" again is extraneous and wordy.

Suggestion: [LOG] Watchlist: logtype posted to cachename (gccode) by username

 

Not sure if the contact email subject has changed, since I've received a couple with HTML formatting, but still with the old subject line...

 

Old: [GEO] username contacting myname from Geocaching.com

Please don't change this!

 

That said, forcing email on all users does seem odd. Most websites have the option for text-only and html, not because text-only is "old", but because there are many practical benefits to plaintext messages over markup that requires a formatting process to be intuitively understandable. =/

 

Lastly, with this new feature, a rather small one compared to some others, while it would have been a little bit more work, having HTML emails as an opt-in feature would have been much better, imo. I know the intent is that it would be a universal site update, but having it opt-in means that people who want HTML email can get them, critique it (without utter distaste for the change, as usual ), and not have active processes break from the unexpected change to expected content... Then once the feature is honed to a satisfactory degree, and everyone is aware or made aware that it will be rolled out for everyone, roll it out for everyone.

 

By text message: Click on clunky links no more. All the information you need is just a (super easy) click away.

 

I can't seem to find where you can set up text message notifications. Or is this only available in certain countries (I'm in DE)?