The Snowdog

I was so excited to see this in my email this morning - finally my big backlog of waymarks is cleared! Nope - it's twenty approvals for the same waymark. The server must have had the hiccups this morning.

This is annoying... I've always been able to go to search and then right-click and past a GC or a coordinate and it's just fine. Now it looks like right-click in that field no longer gives "Paste" as an option. Fortunately Ctrl-V still works. Was this done intentionally? If so, why?

Looks like we are back, thanks to bootron.

That's kind of sad. They got me hooked on benchmarking, and abandoned that, and said "just post them on Waymarking." And they got me hooked on Waymarking and I expect that won't last much longer either.

Yep, looks like we are down again. Can't upload an image, and can't visit an existing waymark.

Well it looks like we are down again; I cannot visit an existing waymark, nor upload photos when creating a new one ("There is no image with that ID...").

Pretty sure they want the gift to cross an international line. Now while NY may as well be a foreign land to me, and Texas prides itself on being a whole 'nother country, I don't think they would take it.

Looks like we are back in action; a lackey replied to the other thread. But I always take these outages as grim reminders as to how foolish it is to have a hobby that you're passionate about that is utterly reliant on someone else's server. And, yes, I'm still pretty bitter about what happened with benchmarking. All those logs... gone forever...

And that is how I submitted it - thanks!

Hopefully some one will notice soon...

Sorry to say so but I'm glad to hear that, it does confirm that it isn't my account but something at their end. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

Pulled out a second laptop and I get the same error on that one, with entirely different images Then I tried it using the cell phone browser (which I have never done before) and yep exact same error. I have also rebooted my main system multiple times and also cleared all of my Waymarking cookies. But that it happens on three different systems must mean something. So there must be something up with the site tonight. Or perhaps my account is fried. Who knows.

Well yippee this error has returned tonight (and I have been posting waymarks steadily for the last week) and none of my tricks (rebooting, resaving jpg as png, et cetera) has worked. I even went to an earlier waymark and tried to upload an image that had I successfully uploaded earlier today and get the same thing, so it must be something going on with the web site.

Here's a new one for the thread, at The Falls in Wichita Falls, TX. It is a plaque from the Mayor of Niagara Falls (NY) sent in honor of the (much smaller and artificial) Wichita Falls. It's not really a Sign of History. What do you think? Is there a category for this one?

Same here. The rest of the site seems to be working.

I have noticed this for a while; while looking at my main page on all of the "The Snowdog took [some trackable] to [some cache]" entries the URL for the cache is incomplete; if you click on it you get a 404. On the attached image the URL goes up to GC0 and then just stops.

You are not the only one. If you type half of the coordinates and then change focus to another window (say, Google Earth, to get the other half) the Waymarking page tries to create full coordinates out of whatever it has. Solution - just type in the entire thing without leaving the page.

Yeah some one else sent me a PM that basically said "Yes it's broken and we know it's broken and it will never be fixed" because of what you said - waymarkers have learned to work around it and "fixing" it would break their stats. Oh well.

Glad to see some fixes on the site. Just to review - for a long time if you visited a waymark in the evening, Central Daylight Time, the date would be incorrect in the "visit" dialog and you would have to roll it back a day, and even when you did that it actually credited you on the next day and you would have to go in and "edit" your visit to actually get the date right. That does not seem to be a problem any more and thanks for the fix. But even after you edit the date, your "visited" grid is still incorrect. So... I posted several visits this evening (7:00 PM to 8:00 PM CDT) that were visited earlier in the day (so I did not need to change the date in the visit dialog) and although the dates are correct on the visits they all show up on my "visited" grid in tomorrow's square. So there are still some issues.

I'm having issues with incorrect logging dates. I normally log caches from my phone in the field and then edit the the logs from the PC, and that's not a problem, the date is fine. But when I log a cache or a TB from the PC for the first time using the web page, the date is always the last time I did such logs from the web page. Just did a few today and the date was two days back, when I logged some TBs after an event. How do I make that date not quite so sticky? [Follow up, added later] Opened the page to log a TB a minute ago and the date was still two days off - and this was after manually resetting it to today's date for some logs earlier this evening! [Follow up Follow up] HAHAHAHA I am such an idiot, I had the date pinned. I will go away now. Thanks.

Well now I am totally confused, as I was absolutely convinced that her details page under the new dashboard (a) looked completely different from mine and (b) had a "print this page" link somewhere. But I just connected to her via Zoom and her details page now looks just like mine. And no "print" link. I could swear that used to be there, and that it gave you the choice of the number of logs to print, but I don't see it now. I thought it might be the browser (she is Internet Explorer reluctantly moved to Edge, I am Chrome) but nope they look just the same. I do know that her old printouts (I have a bunch of them from back in our puzzle solving days) do look completely different from mine; mine look just like the web page (old ones have the GC at the upper right corner in the correct position, then it got shifted halfway off the printed page some years ago) and hers have a somewhat different layout and lots more white space. Yes I have so many print outs of web pages... So I will crawl back into hiding and think about all this some more.

Of course there is. And every time I go to the main page it tells me "An updated version of this page is available." I never accept it, as I do not care for the associated cache page view. I do not run any scripts, as I use many different computers and I want them to all be the same. Next time I am at a geo friend's house I will post side by side pics of the cache page view I have, and the one she has (through the updated dashboard). They are quite a bit different.

As is apparent from my photos, I use the "old" page view (for a varitey of reasons), which does not have a "print" link. The browser's print command should print the page (or any web page) as it is displayed. Using css to alter the way a page is printed, other than on a page that is specifically designed to be printed, is generally frowned upon in modern web design. My guess is that there is something awry with the print.css page the "old" page is seeing.

LOL I spoke too soon, it looks good in print preview but still actually prints incorrectly.

So it looks like this has been fixed, sort of... the GC is now well away from the right margin but at least you can see all of it!