The Snowdog

This has been an issue with the "old" page view for years. Since I don't use the "new" view (for oh so many reasons) I don't know if the fix mentioned here works for that view. But it does not work on the "old" view, at least not for me.

I stumbled across an interesting work-around. Let's say I want to list all of the caches in (say) Arkansas and sort by fave points, so I can see how I'm doing on a couple of fave-related challenges. Spoiler - still a couple short. If you click on Play - Search - filter on Region: Arkansas, United States and select All Caches, the page just hangs up. This is what people have been commenting about. BUT - if you click on Play - Search - and just type any random place into the search tool, that works just fine. Then click on Filters. You'll see "Query - whatever" that you just searched on. Change that to Region: Arkansas, United States and it works just fine. So now let the web crew scratch there heads over that for a while. I will also comment, as I have before, that the two "suggestions" you get when you type into that search bar are entirely useless. And by that I mean that they never have anything to do with what you really want. Which means that to use that tool you have to type, wait a second, and click on the bottom entry (what you just typed) or you'll end up at one of the useless searches.

Have tried to do a fairly routine search today (Play - Search - Filters - select All Caches and Region: Arkansas, United States) and it doesn't respond, on all four of the house computers and laptops. Is something broken?

Just as it was heartbreaking to see twenty years of community-driven benchmark recovery data disappear...

Which has long concerned me as well... how much longer do you think the Powers That Be will continue to support Waymarking for such a small number of users? I expect it to go the way of the Benchmarks pretty much any time, and that will be a bitter disappointment.

I have for some time been noting the ratio of visits to geocaches (particulary virtual caches, where you are going to take photos anyway) to visits to any associated waymarks there. It runs about 100:1, most of the time. And I just visited a 2002 virtual cache in Kansas that has over five hundred visits, at a waymark-rich location, but with no waymarks posted at all. I will be able to set about half a dozen there without even trying. But that does tell kind of a sad story about the relative popularity of Waymarking amid our other geo-related fun.

The bug does not occur when you are editing a published waymark. But you will get it every time when you are editing prior to publication. It is easy to duplicate - edit one of your waymarks that have not yet been published (or that you're currently working on for submission) and just change the coordinates, then hit the "update" button.

Yeah, you are right, they are just disabled. I thought they had been archived but that is because my brain doesn't work as well as it used to.

Nope. Disabled caches show up in grey. These are most definitely archived.

I noticed a while back that archived caches for which I have some sort of entry (a note, whatever) are showing up on the map as "ghost" icons. Very cool. The ones here are blue because I have DNFs on them all... But when you click on them the pop-up dialog has no content.

The Radio Shack "Realistic" brand was know for simply re-branding other manufacturer's components. That Hitachi tape deck, for example; that one just slipped through with the wrong face plate. My "Realistic" headphones (really good ones, too, still going after forty years) have "KOSS" embossed on the sides. I never did find out who made the LAB 400 direct drive turntable but mine is still spinning. I'm very happy that vinyl is coming back, for a while it was really tough to find cartridges for it but now they are readily available. I tell my CS classes that I was the second person in Oklahoma City to own a TRS-80 Model I Personal Computer. The District Manager snapped up the first one; I got the second one. The third one was our first store display and it sold within the hour.

Hmmm, I submitted a Radio Shack a few days ago and it was approved fairly quickly. Is yours still waiting in the queue? [added later] Ah, I am so lazy, all I had to do was look at the category and it is there so it looks like Radio Shack is back in business. I worked at one in college - such fun. It was a great store back in the day (late 1970s). I still have my LAB 400 turntable and a couple of sets of "Minimus" black metal speakers. Best find was a top end (for the day) cassette deck that had the "Hitachi" name plate rather than the "Realistic" and I snapped it up.

A minor glitch in the new Coordinate box - if you edit the WM and change ONLY the coordinates, it fusses that you haven't made any changes and you have to go back and alter some text as well. This has also been a long-standing problem with the "Private Message" field.

It has been a while but about five years ago down in Texas there was the "First Ever Waymarkers Gathering" (GC7HX8J) and I met several other waymarkers there. Have there been any other Waymarking-specific events since?

For those of us "in the know" it's a useful technique. But most geocachers pretty much ignore Waymarking. I base this on some casual statistical analysis of old virtual caches that are also waymarks; the average is about three WM visits per hundred "Found It" logs. That said, when you place a multi or a mystery cache or an Adventure Lab stage, you do have to be aware of what "armchair solver" tools are out there, and set your puzzle or multi to allow them or not. We have one area cacher who loves to put multis in cemeteries; she will say "find this grave marker, then get some required information from the marker immediately south" (or whatever) so you can't solve from home using waymarks or findagrave or whatever. I admire this. On the other hand, I have a few out that you can solve at least the first stage from home, and that's fine with me. If I didn't want that, I would have set it up differently. And the flip side is - when you solve a multi or a mystery or an Adventure Lab stage, is it allowed to post waymarks for the sites you visit? I certainly do, but I do so in such a way that doesn't "spoil" the puzzle if that is at all possible. What I like the most about ALs is that they take me to places that also have (or could have) waymarks. Pretty much any time I do an AL I can take lots of photos and then visit/post some waymarks and I always enjoy that.

I just noticed that we can now search by attribute right on the search page. That is a nice touch. Thanks!

Both of these have been discussed before, but I can't find those threads (forum search is worse than useless - there's yet another thing to fix) so I will start a new one. (1) When you are using the search map, one might often highlight the text of the old search and begin to type in a new one. The expected behavior is that as soon as you start typing, your new text replaces the old. However, your first character is always lost, probably due to code that wants to populate that field with "City, State, Coordinates..." This is unexpected and atypical; in a web search field, the expected behavior is that if you highlight the existing text and begin to type, your text should appear. This bug needs to be addressed. (2) And no matter what you type, you always get two spurious results. They are never what you want. And if you just hit "Enter" the search will be on the first of those spurious results, not on the text that you intend to search.This occurs in other search fields on the site as well. This "feature" should be removed.

This has been broken forever. And it's worse than you think. Even after you edit your log and correct the date, the old (incorrect) date is still what your "found" calendar shows. In other words, if you were to return from vacation and log thirty waymarks today, and correct the dates, you would still be +30 on today's date on the calendar.

A sad, sad day, and a great loss in so many ways. I guess geocaching is just a game now.

"Today, they are not in line with the global game geocaching has become..." That is correct. Benchmarking isn't a game. Note how many of us do it even though it doesn't alter our geocaching stats in any meaningful way. It's one of the few aspects of geocaching that is actually a public service (the other being CITO). Too bad they didn't elect to spin it off into its own site, like they did with Waymarking, rather than throw away twenty years of user activity.

Yep that is what it was, and as M & 99 pointed out it did go away because of new privacy laws. Thanks everyone!

Ya know, I might be thinking of who viewed a cache. Was that once a thing? I seem to remember that we once used that feature (or something like that) to figure out who was stealing containers.

Sorry if this has been discussed before but I couldn't find anything in the search. I know that you can no longer view who is watching a cache (including your own) because of EU regulations (and this has been the case for some time now). But you can view who favorited a cache - any cache, not just your own. What subtly in the law allows one, but not the other? Just curious...

Fortunately there is at least one phone geo app (which I will not name as Groundspeak hates it) that does show all of your caches at their "corrected" coordinates, and that's what I use when I'm scouting out a dense area for yet another cache. It will even put range rings around them, which makes it pretty easy. The suggestion of a checkbox on the cache page (Show at corrected coordinates after found, with default unchecked to mimic current behavior) is a good one and this would be fairly easy to add; the page already pulls all sorts of stuff out of your profile and one more variable wouldn't hurt. And that way puzzles and such could show up where they actually are (just check the box), and geo-art would would appear as the artist intended.

AHA I have looked right past that. For those who are as dense as me - in my case it was in the "nearby geocaches" box. Just delete all of that and your WM will be good again.