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We have seen several issues when uploading our field notes (geocache-visits.txt) from our Garmins. If we don't already have a 'draft' in the list on the site, the upload loads the entire geocache-visits.txt file and most of the dates are incorrect. Then when logging, there is no way to use the better, more efficient previous logging page. You are forced to use the new one. We're pretty close to doing everything via GSAK and just dumping the website except for solving puzzles.

Welcome to geocaching.com... This has been one of my gripes for nearly 10 years. Some days, it works great! Others are simply painful. It does seem to have been consistently slower than normal since they introduced the recent changes to the site though.

Agreed. The new logging page is really poorly designed.

^^^THIS^^^^!!! And what's almost as bad are series placed with the same first words. One never knows which cache is which without digging into the description.

I don't ever recall an ability to see stacked caches on the maps. Is new?

I just don't use it. Place a note on your profile that clearly states that you prefer e-mail and not message center. I MAY look at the message center once every month or so. If someone wants to get in touch with me via gc, the can use the send e-mail option or they can wait until I happen to open the page.

There's the problem. It used to be far more intuitive, efficient and easier to manage. Groundspeak simply isn't listening or too many people just don't care that the site is nowhere as easy to use as it used to be. When it comes to the website functionality, 'New' and 'Improved' seem to be mutually exclusive.

When opting out of the new logging method, that option is not retained after closing browser and does not carry over to the drafts area. such that even when opting out, logging from drafts the new logging page comes up and the option to opt out does not exist. Please fix or provide a more permanent option in account settings.

When we upload (yes, two of us here) our geocachevisits.txt file in the Drafts section (should be field notes but that's another topic), the previous upload date 'Ignore prior to' is missing and no longer works. This frequently results in hundreds of field notes uploading, all but the last few displaying the incorrect dates for those finds. No, please do not tell us to delete our geocachevisits.txt file. We use them and everything worked just fine in the past.

It's not that we are completely resistant to change, it is more that we would really appreciate it if the site were improved in the way of stability and functionality as a priority rather than all of the additions and aesthetic changes that make it less PC friendly. The icons on the maps for example are (IMHO) much more difficult to discern. For example, our owned caches were nice yellow stars. Now they are green circles. Well, so are unfound trads. Unknowns were very appealing blue question marks. Now they are blue circles, well, so are Wherigos. It was so much easier to use the maps back when we were looking at the actual shapes of the icons along with the coloration. Now they are all just circles that so often just blend in with the others. An example of a good map icon design was what we previously had - and what Project-GC currently has. The cache icons popped out! So easy to easily see what the next cache would be. Anyway, I know, this is fairly off-topic but many of us still prefer to use GPSr's and computers for the hobby so we don't have our noses in our phones all day. Please don't forget this and that most of us who still use traditional technology have been loyal paying members for a decade or longer.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! Great news!!

If not for the high quality puzzles in our area (Greater SF Bay Area, California) I would have burned out completely on all the LAC's here.

^^^ THIS ^^^ !!!

Those options have been broken for a very long time due to modern day security patches in most browsers and Groundspeak hasn't invested any effort to get them functional again. The Firefox plugin for example hasn't worked in years. (IMHO) I suspect that Groundspeak doesn't care about the site functionality and appear to be trying to force us all to use their pathetic apps for caching.

I'm very surprised that no one here has mentioned GSAK. The geocaching Swiss Army Knife is by far the best tool to send geocaches to just about any modern GPS. You can even use it to pull up to 6,000 geocaches from the website (per day) and store offline in a database for editing, filtering, sorting, running macros against, etc... You can download a copy at gsak.net. Aside from that, I personally found all of the Garmin Oregon's (and Montana) to be extremely frustrating to actually geocache with as well. I found the GPSMap 60 series (currently the 64s) to be far easier to use for geocaching in general.

I have to agree. The previous logging page is far easier and better in many ways, especially for those of us who do NOT use apps. C'mon Groundspeak, you have a whole generation of geocachers out here who have been members for years who don't want all these mobility 'improvements' shoved down our throats. PLEASE keep the web site and App separate! There are scores of reasons we prefer to use a real computer to log our finds, solve puzzles, read cache descriptions etc... When we're out Geocaching, the last thing we want to be doing is staring at our phones.

So sad... How do we revert to a more easily managed logging page like the one we had before? This one is slow, unresponsive and really wastes far too much space on a real computer monitor.

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And you're still at it so many years later...

Uh... Yeah, about that. No. A culvert is part of a storm drain. A sewer is a closed system for human waste. There's a huge difference. The only difference between a storm drain and a creek is the amount of concrete and coverage. Unless it's raining, a storm drain or culvert hide is a lot safer than your typical GRC. Unless of course people like to drive in the storm drains in your parts. (Yes, some are that large)

Wow. The button "Map These Geocaches" is not obvious enough? We're not in the 4-H Club here, aren't we? Hans Edit: typo Given that the search tool, as I clearly mentioned in another post is something I do not use, no. that is not obvious enough. I stopped using the search tool when it became what it is today and will not start now. GSAK is far superior in every way.

I really prefer this style over the new... I'm ok with the circles, it's just the design of the icons that doesn't work. Use these icons indtead and simply round them out if that's what the goal is. At least these are clear and precise. The new ones at a glance on the maps just bleed into the background.

Do it just the other way round: 1. Do a NewSearch for PMO caches only. 2. Map the result. Bingo! Hans Ok, assuming that we wanted to use the search tool, how do we show these results on the map? (seriously - the search tool is so aesthetically displeasing, I stopped using it ages ago in favor of GSAK so I really don't even know if it's possible)

Additionally, at a glance, I cannot even tell the difference between a trad and an unknown. The colors are now too similar.