jholly
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Even if I were wrong about that, I doubt GS is so large that they can field an entire team dedicated to deciding something as trivial as what e-mail looks like, let alone have excess resources to do extensive market research on it. (Besides, can you really imagine them doing extensive market research without any of us hearing about it?)
Simple, before you can share your ideas with them you have to sign a nondisclosure agreement that even prevents you from mentioning you participated in the market research.
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If I'm reading this properly, Groundspeak are saying:
1. We have existing rules which everyone must follow if they want to add formatting or links to their logs.
2. We are changing the rules so that messages written according to the current rules will no longer be displayed correctly
3. We are not making any attempt to modify logs written according to the current rules because that is too hard.
4. We are not going to grandfather logs written according to the current rules and display them according to the current rules, even though that would be almost trivial.
5. We are not going to offer any tools to assist our paying customers, who faithfully followed the current rules, in finding out which of their logs will be affected
6. We are not going to provide any tools to help our paying customers modify their affected logs.
7. We can do this because we are a monopoly and if our paying customers don't like it they really don't have any alternative other than following our new rules (which we may change at some random time in the future).
Of course, I could be completely misunderstanding the situation. Am I?
I believe your wrong about #7.
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Hi, I'm new to this forum so please bear with me...
I became a member of Geocaching.com on May 18, 2014 when I found my first cache. I signed up under a different name back then, and have since changed my username. However, I have noticed that my "member since" date is now incorrect - it shows some date in 2013. Now every once in a while I will get an email saying that someone has asked to reset my password, even though I didn't - I assume that I took some inactive user's username lol. I think that the 2013 date is the date that the old user first became a member. Is there any way I can change my date to the correct date? I know some challenge caches look at this date - eg. find a cache published the same day that you became a member, etc. Thanks
Unless the policy has changed, no user name is ever deleted. I would suggest you contact Groundspeak directly via the help center - at the bottom of the home page.
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Does anyone know a code that looks like hexadecimal(with 0123456789ABCDEF) but is not hexadecimal?
Yes.
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Need this for my grid, none show active in PQ's, any archived and still available out there, some where ??
I ran a PQ for September 2000 and found 9 active.
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One doubt about this issue.
Therefore, we are recommending that users convert their own logs.Will finders have the chance to change the content and/or type of log (DNF to Find, ie) when editing?
This question is because it seems that log editions are not registered anymore with an aditional line as it used to be.
I edited this log, several hours after having written it and there is no line registering my post edition.
There is an allowed window of time for editing without the edit note text. I'm thinking 24 hours, but it might be shorter.
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evans7391
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evans7391
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Since not everyone has a watch on the Announcements forum, I want to alert you to a post that was just now made there. It details an upcoming change (effective February 2) when support for HTML and UBB in geocaching logs will be removed in favor of Markdown.
You can read more about the change in the forum post or in this Help Center article.
So let me get this straight. This change is driven by security concerns, but yet only a small number of logs use HTML/UBB. How about cache listing pages? Seems to me that the number of cache listing pages using HTML is greater than the logs. So if your concerned about security why didn't you start with cache listing pages?
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Bookmark has been updated
Thanks for doing this. You probably don't realize how many people use this, but I've gotten several e-mails in the last 24 hours -- "is the bookmark list up yet?" -- so know that your work is appreciated by many.
Yes, indeed. There would be no life without the your bookmark and the clever GSAK route numbering macro which allows us to rename the caches with the route number leading the name. Very cool.
Thanks for the kind words. After getting a number of comments over the years I was aware the bookmark was poplar. Glad to hear the numbering data and macro is useful. That was the only way I could figure to do it without breaking the TOU.
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Agreed. I never understood the anti-business rule anyway. What does it matter if you say you like a nearby restaurant? That's probably why you put the cache there in the first place. So what if you tell others in the cache description? Does it somehow lessen the geocaching experience?
If there were no restrictions then a business owner could use GS for advertisement purposes. Just imagine all the film cans that would bring you to your local adult toy shop or your local biker dive.
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Bookmark has been updated, datafile on the cachemachine website has been updated.
GC550FW, #63, seems to have some soft coordinates
Both GC282J1, #73, and GC171T5, #75 were marked temp unavailable "Disabling for now".
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Now to get the bookmark list transferred to my GPS. Does the bookmark list (as revised on 12/11/15) need to be updated further? Probably with the coffee/cookie stop, but haven't scrutinized for any other chances.
The bookmark update hasn't happened yet. JHolly will get to them when he gets to them, but if you need it now, I think the only changes are the addition of the coffee stop event (Book-It to Coupeville) and the removal of JJ's Awesome Cache. There may be a couple more, but that's what I remember changing yesterday.
The update is planned for later today.
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Did anyone get one this week? Pipe up if you did!
I have a private domain that it goes to, generally I don't miss any. None this week. Other emails are coming through fine. I'll go for the editor on holiday leave or an overly busy party schedule. I don't expect anything until after the 1st.
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I do not believe a signed version is any longer available. If you know where I can find one, please share the link!
I know for sure that there is one (the signed version is new) as I downloaded it and it works fine (with the newest version of Firefox)
I found it here
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/
by searching for Garmin communicator
This is weird. I just now downloaded the version I found as per your suggestion, and it did NOT work. Same error message. I have Firefox 43.0.1 and a Garmin Oregon 450.
That is because FF 43.0.1 does *NOT* support the plugin. The boat has sailed and *all* browsers are dropping support for plugins. Soon none, other than down level browsers will work. Technology moves on, so must you. As an example the number of newer apps that support the XP operating system is quickly reaching the number that support win95, which, if you have not checked lately, is zero.
GSAK has been mentioned, it might be a good to look into this. It also has mapping tools that will help with selecting caches, and it has tools to download caches in a given area along with PQ's.
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The Favourite point system doesn't work for a well-maintained, quality watertight container, hidden in a hollow log in the woods. The FPs go to 'clever' caches, like a centrifuge tube in a plastic frog's mouth, or hollow bolt.
Of course you have done extensive research to support this premise. Would you care to share your findings?
My findings on my caches is just the opposite. The ones you mention, for the most part, gather few, if any FP's. And if they have FP's, it is generally from the low count, find a few and leave smartphone crowd.
Really, for the most part I find that caches that have high FP's are high quality caches worth doing. Granted not all are an ammo can in a wilderness area at the end of a two day hike, and, gasp, might even be in a urban area.
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Bookmark and data file updated.
My read on the logs of #55 is that the cache is missing. The owner maintenance log was last August and nothing since.
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I would log a NA. In you NA log list the points you mentioned in you post.
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The notion of the power trail more or less started with the Trail of the Gods trail (800 caches, now archived) in Nevada.
If your going to use this in an argument, at least get your facts straight.. Trail of Gods was in California, not Nevada.
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Less fun for cache owners of quality caches. Often their caches don't merit more then a cut n paste log from power cachers trying to qualify for challenges.
As I understand your argument, you believe "most" challenge caches require people to find lots of caches in a single day.
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Nice post, thanks some reasoned rebuttal. I must say I agree 100% with you, I always felt the sky was not falling.
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Is there anyway you can increase the size of the profile box just a little bit so the find stat generated stats fit in? That is a common application and I'm sure would help out lots of people. There is plenty of room on the page. As someone previously mentioned, much of the page is just plain white.
Things fit fine on my profile. Your problem is probably the extra stuff you included. See.
If you want your GC profile to look correct you must keep within the 750px width of the iFrame. FSG does its best to enforce this, but I can't control any extra text or the html you put inside Notes sections.
A recent update to the macro fixed some of the problems. Try the new version.
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In a way, TPTB made the problem themselves (the "I can't log a cache I can find" complaints).
But I really don't this was the reason for the moratorium. Yes there were some I can't log a cache I can find complaints, but my impression was the load on the reviewers going over the multitude of submissions that could not be published followed by the inevitable appeal to get it published is what caused the moratorium. As for the I can't log a cache I can find complaints, the change was made a number of years ago so that things like a Thomas guide challenge the final was published, but you could not claim the find until you completed the ALR.
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Finally done with power outage and Thanksgiving, back to caching.
Good choices again, only found two on the route.
#3 GC3KB6J - may be missing according to the last log.
#63 GC32H5G - just a note, needs tool, looks like a jug of water
#64 GC5A6VR - previously noted, archived.
Bookmark posted, web page updated.
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No. But there is a limit to how many you can get in a PQ and that is 1000. If you have more than that you need something like gsak that can download everything in a list.
The obvious question is if your ignoring them why would you want to download them?
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They do. Last year before the block party you could sign up for a session to explore changes to geocaching. This was covered by a NDA, the participants could not discuss what was said and really could not discuss that they were chosen. GS is a privately held company that likes to keep things close to their chest.