barefootjeff

If you want to get the list of caches, rather than the map view, you'll need to untick Display search results directly on map in your Profile Preferences settings:

I'm not sure if this has been reported already, as so many search-related things are now broken it's hard to keep track of them, but when searching by, say, Placed Date: when selecting anything other than the first page, it reverts to sorting by distance from home: If I then try to reselect sorting by placed date, it goes back to page 1. The same thing happens when ordering by any column other than Distance, it's impossible to get beyond page 1.

I'm pretty sure this was one of the changes introduced during the Challenge Cache moratorium of 2015/16. The new rules, including the requirement to have a project-gc checker, were introduced at the end of the moratorium on the 25th May 2016.

Same for me (Firefox 125.0.1 on Windows 10 with no add-ons and all cookies enabled). The Browse map was working fine yesterday but this morning all the caches have gone away.

I see the same applies when I look at my found caches on my profile, it's also now excluding archived caches. Listing my found caches now only shows a total of 1150 instead of the 1828 I've actually found, and sorted by earliest first it shows my first find as Muddys Heights on 22/3/2013 whereas it was actually Ahoi Hoi! (GC45MJE) on 16/3/2013.

Yes, I'm seeing the same thing (Firefox 124.0.2 on Windows 10, if that makes any difference). I checked the filter settings and it's set for all caches, not just the enabled ones.

There are a few situations where the hidden date needs to be updated after publication, such as the Pi Day caches lee737 mentioned earlier. The hidden date can't be set to a future date and the publication process can take a week or more, so if the date has special significance then the CO needs to be able to edit it straight after publication.

I always set the Hidden Date to the date I actually placed the container, which is usually the same date as I submit the listing for publication. Publication itself may happen quite some time later, the longest being almost two weeks when our regular reviewer was on leave. I don't know what real significance the Hidden Date has, though, as it doesn't make any difference to anyone apart from those who gather such stats.

The official app doesn't show disabled caches (including events) at all, other than your own.

Check your Prefernces in your Profile Settings and see if "Display search results directly on map" has been checked:

I've since found this Dropbox help page (https://help.dropbox.com/share/force-download) that explains things a bit more and yes, the ?raw=1 does appear to be the correct way to do this.

Thanks, I've now done that and it seems to be working.

One of my caches GCA3Q55, an image-based puzzle based on RGB values that was published over a year ago and has been fine until now, has suddenly become problematic for some players with the image not showing on their devices. It's fine on my Windows PC and Android phone running the official app, but it apparently doesn't show on iOS phones with either the official app or Cachly. On the cache page I used the following URL to display the image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fuh608u83qisvxz/GCA3Q55.png?dl=1 I can't use the geocaching site to host the image because all uploaded images now get quietly converted to progressive jpeg which destroys the exact RGB values. Any thoughts on this?

This is probably a small thing in the great scheme of things, but previously, when viewing my own finds from my profile, the third-last column said "Found on" to correspond with the dates being those on which I made the find, but now, even though the dates are still my find date, the column heading is "Last found".

In your Profile settings under Preferences, you haven't by chance ticked the box called "Display search results directly on map", have you?

The Help Centre makes it pretty clear: Anyone can post an online log from anywhere in the world. To sign the logbook, you need to have gone to where it is, found the cache and opened it. If you've done those three things, why is taking another ten seconds to add your name to the logbook so much trouble?

Well, since you asked... I think it's great that caching has tapped into your special interest in World Heritage sites and areas and, as you said, you got great satisfaction from completing that challenge cache, but isn't that enough? I should also point out that the "Wonders" souvenirs from a few years back had nothing to do with any actual Wonders, apart from the promotion's storyline, all you had to do was find a specific number of caches that had been randomly assigned individual Wonders. A lot of cachers, particularly those who have been in the game for a fair number of years, have special interests. For me, it's caches that get me out in the wilds and take me to places of surprising natural beauty. I've even created a couple of challenges that encourage finds on those sorts of caches and a lot of the (admittedly small) number of challenges I've done are in a similar vein. I've gotten far more satisfaction from completing those challenges than I would have done if it had just got me a souvenir, particularly if the souvenir is awarded for finding just one such cache. So really, in a nutshell, I think challenge caches are a much better way of targeting special interests like yours, rather than souvenirs which tend to be a lot more generalist in nature.

Well not your gallery in particular, but they say a picture paints a thousand words and I'd hope my own gallery provides a good overview of my caching adventures. For me at least, caching is a community game where we hide caches for others to find and share our experiences of those caches with that community. The gallery is a part of that sharing. If someone wants to hide their gallery that's fine, but if they haven't, it doesn't mean anyone looking at it has sinister intentions.

Placed date is generally not the same as Published date.

Same here, all the "nearby caches" links on a cache page go to the ones closest to home instead of closest to the cache.

Yes the rules do need to be consistent, but it's a bit of circular logic to say letterboxes can't be bonuses just because that is the rule, mainly because it just takes a simple 'unless' statement in the rules to make that option seemingly workable, in much the same way as the rule 'any cache type plus stamp equals letterbox' rule had the 'unless it's a bonus' statement added to it at some point. You can make the rules do anything really, it just needs to be rationalised as to why it is either a good or bad idea to do so. My question is simply what is that ratiionale behind the decision, not what does the rule say. So should a Challenge Cache with a stamp in it be listed as an LBH? Maybe it should, but on the other hand the long-standing definition of a challenge is a Mystery cache with the word "Challenge" in the title.

When I click on All Geocache Hides on the Profile Geocaches page: I get every cache in the world.

But that's in conflict with another rule that says a bonus cache must be a Mystery cache, so something has to give. Tied into that is the Bonus Cache attribute which, along with the Challenge Cache attribute, is only available in Mystery caches. What happens if you put a stamp in a challenge cache?

As far as I know, it isn't possible to log a Review unless you've completed all the stages. And how do you know they didn't complete it? The Statistics page on the builder site only shows the first ten completions and the first three on each stage, beyond that everything is completely anonymous.

Maybe you have found yourself in such a situation. I have never found myself in such a situation because I don't search for challenge caches that I don't already qualify for. A few years back, I was with a group of cachers doing a bunch of caches around the Colo River north-west of Sydney, including a trail of challenge caches. There were some I qualified for, some I was close to qualifying and some I was well short of, but they were all in the PQ of the area I'd loaded onto my Garmin the night before and couldn't easily tell which was which while we were walking along the trail, so I just signed the log of each cache we found and left it until I got home to decide which ones got Found logs and which got WNs. Since then, I've qualified for one or two I was close to and added a Found log. There's another challenge cache GC5KEY1 that I'm slowly working towards. It requires 40 finds that are terrain 4 or higher and with the Cliifs/Falling Rocks, Scenic View and Difficult Climb attributes and so far I have 27, so it'll probably be at least some years before I qualify. The cache itself, in fairly remote mountainous country, is terrain 4.5 and has all those attributes so it's not one I'd want to attempt alone, and given I turn 70 later this year, it may well be beyond my physical abilities by the time I do qualify. So if my group of caching friends were to organise a trip out there I'd jump at the chance to join them and at least get my name in the logbook while I'm able to, and if that were to happen I'd probably then make more of an effort to find the remaining 13 caches I need.