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There's a strange bug in the event calendar where all events for an owner are showing as the most recent alias used
For example, user goldpot has 4 future events listed
- GC9TEZQ
- GC9WDM0
- GC9WEG3
- GC9WEHQ
For GC9WEHQ, which is the last event, the event owner alias was changed to Purplepot. The owner name for the other events remain as goldpot.
However, when you look at the events calendar, all 4 events show the owner as Purplepot
Steps to recreate:
- Create two events
- Change the owner alias for the second (most recent) event to something else
- Click on your profile to go to your account dashboard
- In the top right is nearby events, click go
- You'll see the owner for both events are showing as the alias you set for only the second event
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8 hours ago, ChriBli said:
I can almost sympathize with the omission of that case from the regression testing. Funny that it is NaN km though, when the other distances are given in miles (not meters, as I have come to understand).
It wasn't just with the distance from home but if you used a GC code in the location search bar, it'd give the distance as NaN. This issue seems to have been fixed and now shows "Here" as it did before this release. The distances are still imperial even though my settings are metric but I believe they are aware and working on fixing that too.
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Another one to add the massive list of issues with this release...
If your home location is the same as a cache, the distance comes up as Not a Number instead of 0
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I came to report the same issue. There is nothing in the release notes to suggest Groundspeak did this deliberately
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Go through a user's profile and look at the geocaches they have found
Scroll down until it says "load more caches". When the additional caches load they are missing the found date (see pic attached)
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When I'm searching for a specific cache on the app I'm usually copy/pasting it so having the "GC" prefix pre-populated just adds 3 extra button presses to delete it or you end up with GCGC12345
It adds enough extra time and interrupts the user flow enough that I.felt it worth making the post rather than just deleting it each time I do a search for a specific cache!
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Updating coords only allows manual typing of numbers. While this is useful for the tiny number of caches where you get written coords at a stage, it's slower for the vast, vast majority of caches where you have to do any sort of calculations.
Example - You reach stage 1, paste the formula from the description into your personal notes and then calculate the final coords. Now you have no way of copy/pasting the coords into where you edit them
At best you can add a new waypoint, paste the coords into the waypoint name and then manually type them to update the coords.
Or I usually end up having to open the cache in the browser (which can't be done offline)
Please could you allow coords to be updated by just pasting them in? Thanks
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2 minutes ago, Max and 99 said:
I had to log out then back in for them to show up.
Logging out then back in worked for me too. Thanks
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The text on the Placed Date filter has gone German. I have never had german as my language setting and it's not my home country either.
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This is great but a while ago you took away the most useful tool for a CO - the ability to put a NM on our own caches. I still cannot work out why this was necessary. Please could you add this functionality back?
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I came here to report this same issue. Glad it's already being looked into!
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Approx. 4300 Finds, 100 hides, 5000 Favourite Points, playing 5 years
CHS and initiatives like “Hidden Creatures” give the impression Groundspeak are driving towards low D/T, low quality but high quantity. Good for power-trail cachers but not great for cachers who prefer quality and aren’t “just about the numbers”
1) In your mind, what is a high quality geocache?
o Where it is clear *some* thought has been made why this cache has been placed
o Custom container
o The largest possible box that fits the location
o Accurate D/T ratings and attributes
2) In your mind, what is a low quality geocache?
o Nanos – even a great puzzle can be let down by a poor final
o Caches placed for no other reason than to fill a gap
3) What steps can the community take to improve geocache quality?
o Only place a cache where you honestly believe you’d award a FP if you found it.
o No throwdowns EVER
4) What steps can Geocaching HQ take to improve geocache quality?
o Reward system for cachers with many favourite points (similar to Virtual Rewards)
o Minimum number of finds and minimum time after joining before publishing a cache
o When submitting a cache, have a requirement to explain in 10 words why this cache is interesting and should be published
o Only the first time a cacher publishes a cache, make them fill in a short quiz so they understand placement rules. Have a pop-up confirming the cache is already in place prior to publication.
o Allow reviewers more power to kick back on cache pages with little/no information or exceptionally poorly written pages
o Rename “Needs Archived” to “Needs Reviewer Attention” and “Needs Maintenance” to “Needs Owner Attention”
o Allow COs to log NM on their own caches. I don’t understand the rationale of taking this functionality away.
o CHS system discourages higher difficulty caches as these naturally get more DNFs
o Introduce “SuperFavourites” that can be awarded every 100 caches. Normal favourites highlight “good” caches that get many visitors. Such rare “SuperFavourites” would highlight GREAT caches.
o Upvote/downvote on caches. Caches with too many downvotes would automatically get raised to reviewer. If Groundspeak are really against negative public feedback, the downvoting could be anonymous.
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I had to use the website to redo it all manually. Missing finds is a sigificant issue with the app as that is the very core functionality!
I haven't had any response from anyone at Groundspeak which is disappointing
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I went out for a days caching and saved my logs as drafts. When I got back to the hotel, i opened the drafts, edited them and submitted them and received the "success" message for each one.
However, while some caches did indeed submit correctly (GC15C6) others remain as a smiley in my app but don't show on the site 72 hours later (GCAB9F) and others went from my drafts, but don't show as a smiley either on the site or in the app (GC6WHXW)
Could someone look into this for me?
Thanks!
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Coming up to it's one year anniversary of this bug being reported, any chance you'll fix the issue where the waypoint name is reset if you try to edit the co-ordinates?
Thanks!
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Following on from the enormous success of the limited release of virtual caches, is there any appetite for a similar limited release of new Lost & Found events to mark the 20th anniversary in May 2020?
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Never say never. APE caches increased by 100% and a whole new bunch of new virtuals were released. GCHQ might change their mind and hold a block party in the future and Lost & Found might be back for the 20 year celebration in 2020...
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2 hours ago, thebruce0 said:
If to your best judgement you don't believe it requires a maintenance visit, then ignore the notice. Or, if you want it removed from your 'check up list' on the dashboard, post an OM clearly stating why. Or, just visit the cache anyway ro verify it's available firrst hand. (even someone with 65 finds can be right sometimes). It's really up to you at this point.
From the logs, I know they weren't even looking in the right place. It's a D4 for a reason... so yes, I've had to post an OM. But this doesn't feel like the right solution when I haven't had to maintain anything.
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2 hours ago, niraD said:
Better yet, report the false positive to Groundspeak so they can fix their algorithm.
You could try the "Contact Us" links. Or if you consider it a bug, then you could submit a bug report in the Bug Reports forums.
Yes I did, the links say it should be posted to the forum so I did both.
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Can I ask why this cache got flagged by the algorithm? It's D4/T4.5 and only had two DNF - one by a cacher with only 65 finds.
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4XERM_hays-galleria
Does this really warrant a visit to check the cache?
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On 04/01/2018 at 6:31 PM, thomfre said:
It would be nice if someone from Groundspeak could acknowledge the problems, and let us know what's happening
Isn't it what the "announcements" forum is for? But Groundspeak haven't posted to that since July 2017
https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/forum/4-announcements/
Site is down yet again. Could you advise with some timescales how long this is going to go on for? Thanks
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The site won't let me log in at the moment. Why are there so many problems with the website recently?
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I normally visit the "releases" section to complain... but this time all the changes seem positive.
The suggested cache sizes are much closer to what we see in reality. It feels like the developers have been out and played the game
Excellent work!
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How do I remove a cache from the "may need help list"? I have caches that are fine, but high D/T so get DNFs. I've logged OM but still they appear on the list.
For example, I have a T4.5 cache with tree climb attribute yet people still get there and log a DNF without even attempting to climb. What else can I do? I've had to delete their DNF logs and post an OM but it still says I need to maintain the cache.
This CHS seems to really discourage hiding high D/T caches. It appears to be poorly thought out and even more poorly implemented.
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Countries without regions show as "None"
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If you look on the found list from the Profile, countries without a specified region will show as "None"
e.g. for Singapore, it'll show as "None, Singapore"
If you go to the cache page it'll show correctly as just "Singapore"