AZcachemeister

What does the cache page say right above the 'user logs' section? It's OK to make side comments about the hide or container. After a while you will learn how to code them so that they don't seem to apply to the cache at all. If the Cache Owner feels you have given too much away, they should contact you to ask you to edit your log...but they might simply delete your log. If your log gets deleted and you did make some comments about the container and/or the hide, simply re-log and leave out the unwanted (by the CO anyway)* details. *I can't tell you how many times a cleverly worded log (that was actually a hint) has saved me from a DNF.

I disagree. The squirrel in the new geocaching.com layout is nothing like the other site's blue whatever-it-really-is mascot. And the squirrel theme gave me the idea for this background image for my cache listings: Unfortunately, this background image won't work unless the background image is centered, and they aren't centered. I see squirrels going up the wall. It's no wonder the squirrels are being driven up the wall.

When did reliable functionality start to equal stale? Edited to add: This kind of random 'site improvement' is making me want to exclusively use GSAK to log my finds and never visit the site again.

I was thinking that TFTS (thanks for the smiley) would be a good acronym to use here. It's unfortunate, but there are too many cachers (i use that term loosely) who are only concerned with getting the easy smiley these days. I figure most of them could care less how good or sucky a cache is. That is my basic cache log: If the cache has some merit, I will elaborate...sometimes to excess. If the cache REALLY SUCKS, I might post a few paragraphs from Moby Dick, or some other classic novel.

The puzzle with the record number of steps (however you define them) probably has at least a similar number of people ignoring it.

If I do decide to eat one, it will be with either: 1. Anchovies 2. Hot sauce. (Tabasco might not even cut it here.) Luckily I have a few more powerful choices.

This is NOT the 'spirit of geocaching'. Jeremy sold the spirit years ago. He no longer even has the spirit to come here and debate these fantastically better mistakes. This is day ONE of my August Souvenirs Suck strike. Only 30 more to go. Thanks Jeremy. You do realize that chronic negativity will shorten your lifespan? Perhaps instead we should all hold hands and give thanks for everything *good* about this hobby. Should we sing Ommmmmm or Kumbaya while we do this? Just curious. I don't know about you, but I'm gonna sing 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' in honor of the non-existent souvie for Georgia (not the one that sits on top of Florida).

Assuming your 'old phone' was also an ANDROID and you didn't upgrade from an iPhone: Register the phone using the same identity as the old one, go to the 'Play Store', hit the menu key and select 'My Apps'. You may need to choose an 'All' tab as opposed to the 'Installed' tab. No you can scroll down through every app you ever installed, find the Geocaching app, select it, and install it to your new phone. If indeed you did upgrade from an iPhone, you will need to pay (again) for the ANDROID version you never 'owned'.

Presumably you have logged your finds for the ones you found, right? Unless you wanted to visit them again, you don't need them in your GPS any longer. So, yes...delete all records off your GPS, run your PQ again (making sure to select out found caches), and load the new results into your unit.

Very slim chance the person you want to thank would ever see such a note on your cache page. It's best to send a PM (personal/private message) to express you feelings about the logs...whether your feelings are positive or negative.

This is a message that you are getting in GSAK because you have added caches to it's Ignore List. Click on the Database menu and choose Maintain Ignore List and delete the cache codes off of the list. They most likely got on the list because you deleted them at one point from GSAK and the "also stop future imports" option was checked. That automatically adds then to GSAK's ignore list for that particular database. Yup, probably this. Voice of experience:

I agree, but I believe that Groundspeak has too many people on the pay roll that are dealing with marketing, graphics, etc and too few who are skilled programmers and developpers. I guess many of the layout changes only happen to keep the people with the skillset for these tasks busy. Cezanne Yes. A fresh coat of paint on the walls is always nice, but it's a good idea to fix the gaping cracks first. There are some things you can't just paint over and pretend won't be noticed.

They broke all of the Greasemonkey scripts that actually make the site useful. For what. A brighter green with topo contours, and big roided out goats on the home page? Sooooooooooooooooooo many useful things that are repeatedly suggested in the Feature Request forum that we will never see because this is what they spend their time on. When you develop a site and someone else makes greasemonkey scripts to make it work better, you feel powerless. When you feel powerless you look for ways to get the power back. When you want to take the power back you take programming lessons. When you learn programming you want to use your programming. You become the programmer of happiness. When you become the programmer of happiness, you start to reprogram the website. When you reprogram the website you break all the greasemonkey scrips. You feel the power. When you break the greasemonkey scripts your users are upset. When your users are upset you know you have the power and you are happy. I suspect there is a grain of truth in that, but certainly it would NEVER be admitted to. Personally I think it's something like what I see at Sam's Club all the time...every few months most all the items are switched around to different parts of the store. Coffee has been on aisle 6 for months, and when you go in to buy some coffee...it isn't there so you need to go up and down searching for the coffee you came for. JUST MAYBE something you didn't really want will catch your eye, and it will sneak into your cart. Does changing stuff around on a webpage make people randomly click on links trying to locate the function they were looking for causing extra page loads that make your site seem more popular?

We (you, me, everyone else) can't control the accuracy of Google Maps, Google Earth, and/or whatever else. As already stated, in some areas these products are spot-on and highly reliable...in other areas of the world they are not. There are enough issues that can dilute GPS accuracy, and learning how to compensate (and when) are important factors in using the equipment. Adding an unknown like 'Did this CO use Google Maps to get his numbers, and how far off is Google Maps in this area?' creates unnecessary difficulty in locating the container. You are free to use whatever method you like to find caches, but please remember a GPS MUST be used to get the co-ordinates in order to hide/place them. It's the GPS Stash Hunt, not the Google Maps Stash Hunt.

Open GSAK. In the menu at the top, find 'Geocaching.com access' and click which opens a drop-down. Select 'Get Geocaches'. Here you can set the parameters for size, type, difficulty, terrain, etc. In the upper-right corner is a big button marked Google Map. Click that button and it opens the map where you do your 'drawing'.

Your most recent find was 7/31. You may have posted the log today, but it was dated for yesterday.

Paraphrasing from a post in a similar thread: Posting a 'Will Attend' on an event is much more dangerous.

There are ways to find caches with no online logs, but the only way to really know if you are FTF is to go check the log in the cache.

If these forums parameters are not performing the function(s) you want them to, perhaps these forums are not the best way to do what you want to do? Not to be unsympathetic, but the forums are what they are...expecting changes to be made solely to suit your needs is unreasonable.

Tomorrow is the big day! I get another event attended, an August1 souvie, and I'm going to be drinking beer (IPA) the whole time! It just doesn't get any better. AHHHH!

Every time you turn around there is a new restrictive guideline. Pretty soon a cache in your own front yard will be the only option.

The lack of increase in the PM price for US cachers not withstanding, Groundspeak is increasingly (more and more) about the almighty $$$. I'm not sure I can blame them, but is indeed the case. Long gone are the days when the mention of an issue concerning site performance would generate an immediate response and a solution produced within a day or two. Nowadays, efforts to ensnare new users takes precedence. If you expect a site update to address an issue like missing TBs, you might as well be howling at the moon.

This is the crux of the biscuit...people want a smilie, and they think they deserve one for their effort. If there is a container with a log with their signature on it, who could argue. Yes, I know...lame-o-grande, but that is the rationalization. Sadly, rationalization is becoming an increasingly relevant factor in geocaching.