CaptAmerica92

I don't think you understand what we are talking about. We're not searching for caches we have already found. Those are easily accessed via our profiles. What has been degraded is the "search" function that was already very frustrating. Searching for a cache by name when you don't know the name is now even more frustrating. Before this "enhancement", at least you could search for a word, for example "Challenge", and you would get a list of results. Now you need to know the first word of the name of the cache. Yeah, right, that's a lot of help. Go ahead and try it: Do a search "Cache starts with" and use "Challenge: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/ And I'm not seeing any performance improvements. If anything, the site is reacting even slower than previously. B. I realize my ignorance on the issue, now. Sorry. I'm learning here. The decision is pretty stupid...

I have heard all kinds of stories. People fall to illness with TBs, people move TBs and don't log them, or they show up months or years after a mis-log with no word of wrong or forgiveness. So, I just wanted to inquire, when does it come to the point for other cachers to deem a TB as missing?

This is a joke - right? You are taking away some functionality and then sell it as an improvement? The search facility is limited enough as it is without this new restriction. What is the big performance problem here? Is Groundspeak using some toy-database software to handle all the data, or is it simply the aged and ever expanded database scheme which makes effective searching impossible? A 'real' database should not have any problems looking for a string in some 2 million cache titles... Names are not even reliable. You should be searching by GC codes. Remember the GC codes and you're golden. I keep records of them.

Do you know the cache's name or reference code? If you do, you can log a note on the cache's page, then log the trackable as "Grabbed from Elsewhere" and then "drop it" by logging it's code.

You can look up html code and post hyperlinks to their pages, just as an example. You can do a lot with html code: http://www.w3schools.com/html/. You are happy to check out my profile to see how I am logging my Milestones.