Rock Chalk

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Glad to know I'm not going crazy! I've had the same problem all week, and didn't realize there had been a firmware update. I've always liked seeing the distance until the next turn displayed in the "Distance to next" box. Now, it's just a 0.

Site should be good now, but there may be some bumps in the road over the next few hours while the engineers are working on stuff.

Can you look up some caches for me?

The site is indeed down. Engineers are working diligently. Very sorry for the inconvenience! Edit: many people may see the site load "normally", but results will be hit or miss until the current issue is fixed.

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Closing this duplicate thread.

Closing this duplicate thread. Active thread is here.

Someday, we may be able to build a website that addresses only the desires of the finders in your area. Until then, we'll have to continue with a website and game guidelines that are used by millions of other people, including many who might not have exactly the same opinions as you and every other finder in your area. Each time someone tries to answer this question, a few people insist on presenting irrelevant analogies. This has all been explained before. The reasoning hasn’t changed, but here it is again. A challenge cache is nothing like a hard puzzle cache or a T5 cache. If you find a T5 cache or a hard puzzle cache, you log it as found. Simple as that. When you find a challenge cache, you can’t log it as found unless you’ve qualified. Challenge caches are the only physical cache that get away with an additional logging requirement. The main reason they’ve been allowed to get away with ALRs is they fill a void the website doesn’t -- rewarding cachers for an achievement. That’s worthy of giving an exception to the prohibition on ALRs. But we humans are prone to taking worthy ideas and seeing how far we can push the limits. Pre-moratorium, the limits were often pushed to where the end didn’t justify the ALR exception. Such as people putting out challenge caches that few people, including the CO, had any real hopes of qualifying. It was one of the most mentioned issues in the surveys we conducted during the moratorium. Excessive bookkeeping was another. The new guidelines aimed to address those and other issues presented by players and reviewers. Everyone is certainly welcome to continue arguing the guidelines. But making faulty comparisons between challenge caches and any other physical cache is an exercise in futility.

An archived cache won't be unarchived for adoption. And an archived challenge cache won't be unarchived if the challenge doesn't meet current guidelines. So, a double whammy in this situation.

Sorry for the continued delay. We are still working on building out new maps. Once they are complete, we expect to be able to update maps once a month. So we don't expect this type of delay in the future.

Thanks for the information. The GeoTrail is added to the list.

Thanks. The list is updated to include that geotrail.

The screenshots in this thread contain language that violates forum guidelines, so they’ve been removed. To address the comment about Groundspeak customer service -- if you feel another user has behaved inappropriately, emailing our Help Center is the only way to ensure that someone will know of the situation. Our community managers cannot monitor every forum thread. Thanks.

As mentioned by the OP and several other folks, there is an active ongoing thread about this subject. The OP can share his thoughts there. Closing this extra thread.

Closing this duplicate thread.

https://www.geocaching.com/play/geotours/sicily GT65

Closing this thread since a duplicate thread exists in the German-speaking forum.

The yellow dot is because you have pending draft logs. Once you've cleared the pending logs, the dot would disappear. That feature has been in place for awhile. (Long before the Events Calendar widget.)

As a reminder from the original post in this thread, posts in this thread should relate to the release. We've removed a few unrelated posts, but you're welcome to share suggestions for future features in other threads. Thanks!

I really have no idea what that means.

You're essentially asking us to share the algorithm. Sorry, can't share any details about it.

No, recipients cannot change the cache type from Virtual.

See the guidelines linked in the OP. Requiring a photo is allowed so long as the finder's face is not required in the photo. In the virtual you referenced, the CO states " you don't need to show your face is you don't want to."

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