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I came to report this after I noticed this last week and then logging some trackables today saw it was still an issue. Glad to see they are working on it.

NICE! They just fixed it! I am giving MartyBartfast all the credit for making this happen!

This seems to be a good spot to report my concern too. Please see this cache. https://coord.info/GC4QNA6 Note that I spent days working on the HTML to make this challenge work. Now none of the links work. I can edit the URL on the regular search to get it down to my .5 miles or less than a mile I need, but then it sorts the list by distance from me instead of the distance from the search point. I am hoping I do not have to rework all of that HTML code. Anything HQ can do to help with this would be very much appreciated.

Hey Y'all. Just in case you missed it, here is a way to look up your old logs minus the photos. You will just need to know the PID for the benchmark which you can find on Scaredy Cat Films viewer still. So has anyone transitioned and started logging benchmarks directly on the USGS site? I have not. Now I sadly just ignore benchmarks.

Yes it appears that Adventure Labbing gives easy FP. It was so strange it was not included in September. I still am intrigued that August had such a low count all together. Although should we surprised that maybe a lot of people's areas were cached out and apparently people do not like to travel to cache much. Well at least some people!

I am looking forward to seeing the final stats next month. It is very interesting that so few received June easy. Streaks are tough so the low numbers for July make sense. August completely puzzles me except to fully understand people do not like events and/or ALs.

The original post had a link you must have missed. https://goo.gl/maps/sAdMpS9a7V8studQ7 Thank you! I might still be down to put that up there!

Look at what this thread inspired me to do! This was an expensive but fun one to plant. https://coord.info/GC7ZNBA I just checked on the final yesterday and it is still going strong.

One of the posts above yours shows you can at least look at your old logs with Wayback Machine.

Yeah color me unimpressed lately with HQ. I definitely see them less as stewards now and more of a corporate machine that does not care about us, only about the bottom line. They talk a good game, but killing benchmarks and then messing up the search function and telling us "Sorry, we are on vacation and will get around to it when we get around to it" has me completely put off. At least I can go find a ton of adventure labs with little to no effort from a parking lot somewhere. What an adventure.

Did you mistype and meant to say "will not put"? If so, there are six pages of people telling you that this is a direct slap in the face to many members and many members plan on dropping their accounts. For you to come on here and tell these people their experience and feelings do not matter is odd.

My previous log was deleted probably under the guise of my reporting one more broken website link, but really because I was being quite critical of HQ. So I will keep this one on topic. Since no one at HQ can be bothered to help any of us, I figured out some work arounds for this this morning after having a frustrating day in the field yesterday working on a Centroid challenge because as you all know, when searching by coordinates, it automatically sorts by distance from our home coordinates, not the much more useful and usual distance from the search location. So if you go to this link https://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx you can input the coordinates you want to search for and it will give you the much more useful data we all miss so much. Go try it, it works.

Thank you for this. I just found a puzzle cache that I am fairly certain had the location to the final in a BM photo. So I was able to get back to the page using your info, but as you stated no photos. I bet the CO doesn't even know. You really did us dirty HQ. I am not happy. I might never be with you ever again. I have little desire to support you in any way any more. That is how wrong this was. However, I do not think you care.

I am glad our countless hours of research through logs and plethora of photos mean nothing to HQ and zero attempts are being made to keep our data available in an archived format. All this community talk is nothing but lip service to the corporate machine and bottom line.

I just realized the biggest part I am going to miss about benchmarking here, the Mark Destroyed. I have spent way more time researching and posting about destroyed marks than found marks. I thoroughly enjoy doing it too. How am I going to log a destroyed mark on Waymarking? I guess I might have to become a NGS reviewer. I do know one thing, destroying the database seems to be everyone's number one complaint. Countless hours of research and logs about to be dumped without an easy way for us to save them. If HQ cared about us, they would find a way for us to easily preserve that data and those images. People should be upset about this and HQ should not just say "sorry".

I like this analogy. The only thing I would add is you decide to bulldoze the house with so little warning that Billy cannot get out of the house and loses all of his possessions. So you tell Billy sorry about your bad luck, but the progress of your house due to your failure to plan was more important than Billy's possessions. And by the way Billy, keep paying your Premium Rent to us after we destroyed all of your possessions. Thanks for your understanding Billy and by the way the new renters are here and they enjoy the open sewer ALs that are stinking up the property so go enjoy that with them now that your stuff is all gone. It will make you feel better. And also Billy, do not forget if you scrape any of your possessions from the house, you violate the TOS and you will be thrown off the property. Go along now Billy. Thank you Keystone. Do you have any links where the best discussions are happening?

Yeah I can only handle so much of HQ telling me to pound sand as they continue to remove the fun parts of the game. Moving the benchmarks over to Waymarking automatically would be nice. Providing some way for us to download the data easily would be nice. Geocaching basically told us "Go find a silly Adventure Lab and you will feel better." Maybe you can make us all a souvenir for trying to save benchmarking. Yeah we didn't succeed, but we deserve a souvey anyway. Its the new Geocaching way.

I put in a lot of effort and time into those logs. To have them just wiped out is pretty disheartening. However, I am not surprised. First the watering down of challenges, then a underhanded attack on my own challenges. This is the reason I did not host my shooting event this year. HQ does not seem to care about us anymore. Whatever it takes to keep Geocaching going with a bunch of everyone gets a prize youth that will never stay dedicated to this game.

The benchmark challenges were fun and I did not just log them to log them. It took some serious work because I take benchmarking seriously. I enjoy logging destroyed more than found it quite often. Here are the best benchmark challenges. 250 BMs 500 BMs 50 BMs in a Day 15 Landmark BMs Five 25 BM Days 100 Years of BMs Alphabet BMs Altitude BMs

My main concern is what about the countless hours of research I’ve performed on benchmark logs? I can handle you are going to kick us off to stupid Waymarking, but to lose those old logs is a huge disservice to all of us who spent so many hours on those logs and enjoy going back to see them again. What is the cost of leaving benchmarking there? What about a benchmarking paysite? Some of us really, really enjoy it.

I am a very detailed trackable mover. I take tons of photos of trackables so you can see where your trackable has been so it takes months for me to upload all of my photos to Geocaching and Facebook. Here is my suggestion. On a cache page's gallery there is a link to take you to the log the photo corresponds to. See this example 01.png. However, on trackable page's gallery this link is missing. I often post links to drone footage in my logs for trackables, but there is no easy way to find out which cache that was or where the footage is. See example 02.png. Really the only way to find this footage is to go to the trackable map and scroll down until you see logs where I have added text to them. Is it possible to get the trackable gallery images to have that "View Log" option as well? I think it would be nice for viewing which cache location a trackable photo was posted to for those wanting to see where their trackables have been. Thank you.

Look at this one! It was gone and now it is back! I have heard you are not supposed to mark them as found when they are removed and put back, but then again, how would you know? https://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.aspx?PID=MD1749

I thought that might be what this was in reference to, but that would actually be wrong. This challenge calls them benchmark landmarks and I was being specific about these landmarks being missing. I suppose if you wanted to be a little more technical you would actually call them intersection stations. I purposely called them landmarks hence me not understanding the attempt at a joke. Benchmark is actually incorrect all the way around. Here is an explanation of that.

Yeah sorry, I still am not fully understanding your humor. What is the error?

Here is one that even Power Squadron incorrectly logged as present in 1990. Weak. https://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.aspx?PID=TZ0048