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Hobo2

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  1. Maybe the back button wont work when you are dropped and have to log in again. Maybe it is not my computer, it might just be a real problem with this website. I will resume tonight when I have more time. Don't be so quick to dismiss a problem with your PC or the ISP you are using. I used an ISP briefly in 2003 that was almost impossible to do anything with the Geocaching website even though other sites worked great. It turned out they were experimenting with some fancy memory caching server to help speed up requests over the web. Worked great on some sites but not this one as it is so dynamic. I knew it was the ISP because I had access to other ISPs that had the site running smoothly. Tested them side by side. You are describing a level of difficulties that seems well beyond what many of us are seeing. In the last 3 hours I have been creating a couple of new listings and viewing/commenting in several forums. In that period, I have seen at least a dozen times where there were significant (> a couple of minutes) delays in getting a response. It would seem that too many people, in too many countries are seeing these problems for it to be an ISP problem. Just goes to show you, they don't believe there is any trouble, or that it is PAST time for an upgrade. It is much easier to place blame elsewhere. It is also easier to try and trip up the poster and deflect the issue. It must be everything else but GP is now the theme!
  2. Maybe the back button wont work when you are dropped and have to log in again. Maybe it is not my computer, it might just be a real problem with this website. I will resume tonight when I have more time.
  3. I will write my rebuttal on some other software tonight, then copy and paste it. I just don't have time to fool around with this slow website right now.
  4. Scared? I think they do a great job and thank them for their work. I don't agree with everything and they know that. I haven't been "fired" yet. It would be great to have a super fast site all the time, but with so many free users I am not surprised that it gets slow on the weekends. I think it is great that they still allow people to use the site for free. I also know that this is a game and not a matter of life or death. It seems to be that way for you. I don't really see the masses as worked up as you are about this frankly. There are hundreds of thousands of people who see this for what it is -- a game. As I noted above, the original ethics are still there. Despite slowness on the weekends, hundreds of thousands of people still play for free. This is far from an inactive area. It is the proper area as well. People post about issues they have (which is what you are doing), and they post about feature requests. You are complaining about web site related issues. Where would you suggest this be move to? It isn't like you were moved to the quiet Luxembourg Forum. I do thank them for sticking to their promise of keeping parts of the site open to all. If you want to see "downhill", go to the Navi site. You want this site to look and operate like that one? I most certainly don't. I see this site as one that is moving forward, not downhill. Sure, we could have no features and throw every penny at hardware. No thanks. At least you have PQ's and slick mapping and many other features. If you want a site like Navi, you got it. No one uses it though. I think that speaks volumes for what the vast majority of users want. They want what this site offers. I just wrote a nice log rebuttal, took me a half hour to write, but I was dropped before I could post it, need I say more?
  5. You are not hijacking anything, this thread is meant to wake GP up on lots of issues. There are some real troubles going on here! To say the pat answer of, "we're working on it", just isn't cutting it and doesn't address the elephant in the room, which is upgrading. Anyone can do the revenue numbers and see this can be done. I'm not one to appease unless it is warranted. I think there is too much of that going on now. If truth be told, I'd bet most who post what a great job GP is doing, really have the same frustrations we do and want change, but they are scared. I do not feel sorry for someone who is in a thankless job, or volunteering, both of which I'm in and do regularly. I do fear a reprisal from GP in my continued straight talk, but I am also counting on the original ethics which founded this wonderful game to rise up again. Again, I think this thread has been placed in a somewhat inactive area out of design, but I have no control over this. It is time we all stand together and thank GP for doing what is right, not to keep appease them out of fear for letting this website continue to head downhill.
  6. # of members x $3 per month = $,$$$,$$$.$$ revenue per month! Maybe it is time to invest in an upgraded server. I know it is hard to spend profits, but there is a moral obligation to keep things running smooth while continually collecting income. This system is clearly overwhelmed now, and it is just going to get worse! It is time to make the hard decision NOW! PS. It was very, very, slow and sticky all weekend long!
  7. Bye...don't let the door hit you in the...never mind. Slow website, then add nice understanding folks like Allanon, why should you be frustrated, I don't get it. Thanks OpinioNate for explaining, and sorry if you think I'm impatient. But you must understand my impatience. This has been going on for a very long time now... no surprises here. Then I finally get fed up enough and post my frustration and get no response until today. I for one am getting more and more frustrated all the time. I find myself only visiting when I need to, not just for pleasure as I use too, this must be the case for many others as well. Now before I get some brilliant door remark let me say, I do love this sport, and I do want to continue to play. But I also pay to play. If you feel it is unfair of me to complain about the performance of a product I pay for, then I feel GP has other issues to deal with than just website speed. Thank you for your time!
  8. I think this thread got dropped into the obyss. No one at GP seems to read it, as the mediator implied. He made it sound as if he moved this thread here, the tech guys would see it right away. Now I'm starting to wonder! Maybe a link to this thread on other sites will wake them up!
  9. Guess more people + more revenue = less quality Maybe a one month strike on dues by a few thousand members is in order.
  10. Still sticken'!!! I just sent a message to another cacher, by the time I got it typed the website froze again, what the heck! Now I'm wondering if anyone sees these posts? PS. Now this one is sticking too.
  11. I just found out something interesting about it. If you go fast... keep the pages flipping, it is a bit faster. But if you stop for just a couple of minuets, then it seems to get stuck, and takes a long time to load pages again.
  12. Still very slow today. I just posted maintenance on one of my caches, and I'm typing (I type very slowly) this while waiting for it to load, nothing yet, still waiting for it.
  13. I remember when it was just slow on the weekends, but not as bad as it is now, and now it happens at all times on every day.
  14. Ya, I told my wife to wait a minuet for me to post just a few things, now my minuets are becoming as long as hers, lol. You are right, frustration = lack of enthusiasm!
  15. Here, everything is fine, but I've been doing maintenance on some of my caches... getting them ready for summer, and saying so on the cache page, but I can hardly enter anything. In fact, I go fool around on another website for a while waiting for the next cache page to show up, very frustrating! I also sent a message to a cacher recently, it took 5 minuets for the message to be sent. I have no trouble on any other site, so this is why I'm asking here.
  16. I'm having all sorts of trouble updating caches, sending emails to other cachers, etc. My pages lock up, load half way then stop, very frustrating! I'm not having any of this trouble on any other website, so it can't be my computer. I've been noticing this getting worse and worse this past year, what is happening, are any of you having the same trouble?
  17. I'd like to change the font color on one of my TB listings, how do I do this. I searched "color change", "change font color", etc, but found nothing, please help. I'd also like to know how to start a new paragraph, how can I make a space?
  18. no doubt its one of the cans on the bottom level Very clever
  19. Sorry for the repeat, the web site was sticking
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