All change again...

July 23, 2008

Just trying to log today's find and GC.com stalled then I notice the font has changed, or is it just me?!

July 23, 2008

Just trying to log today's find and GC.com stalled then I notice the font has changed, or is it just me?!

...and the Google map! :anitongue:

Edited July 23, 2008 by goldpot

July 23, 2008

Nope big time changes! :laughing: Looks like version 2 is on the way!

Change is a good thing.... :anitongue:

July 23, 2008

And the OS maps still work in Greasemonkey - well, as long as that works, then the new changes are fine in my book! :anitongue:

1.2k · July 23, 2008

Yep the whole sites changed to....

Server Application Unavailable

The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable. Please hit the "Refresh" button in your web browser to retry your request.

Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this specific request failure can be found in the application event log of the web server. Please review this log entry to discover what caused this error to occur.

Kewl!!!!

July 23, 2008

Now it's Server Application Unavailable :anitongue:

1.1k · July 23, 2008

See here, just posted (before the site crashed!) Latest updates nothing about font changes but mention of tidying up pages?

2.6k · July 23, 2008

Change is a good thing....

That's as maybe, but when change is afoot, the hamster needs extra food,clearly this has been overlooked and the poor thing has collapsed from hunger!

July 23, 2008

...and I only had one cache left to log! :anitongue: :laughing: :lol:

July 23, 2008

all gone here... :anitongue:

July 23, 2008

The website is working fine for me... navigating it merrily. The changes are visual. The structure of the web page is still the same as before. It has just been given a refresh. A lick of paint. A nip and tuck if you will. Still recognisable but with a fresher appearance.

1.7k · July 23, 2008

Grrrrr :anitongue: , yup stalled on me just I was saving an unusually long (for me) log, and I lost it all :laughing: . I should know better and copy it before clicking on submit, but you get used to it being reliable(ish).

Might be an idea if they put out a warning when they are working on it.

July 23, 2008

Grrrrr , yup stalled on me just I was saving an unusually long (for me) log, and I lost it all . I should know better and copy it before clicking on submit, but you get used to it being reliable(ish).

Might be an idea if they put out a warning when they are working on it.

I would say Use your back button but I'm sure you've tried that. When ever the website has timed out on me in the past and I get the error message, back button has always got it back for me.

But remember when the website was REALLY bad for performance? That's when I got into the habit of preparing my logs in Word before hand and then pasting it in. Crashes didn't faze me then!

July 23, 2008

What a 'kin mess - the old front page was grim but this beggars belief!

Surely this stuff should be tested, announced and then issued. If we ran the business I work in like this it would have failed ages ago.

What is happening Groundspeak?

July 23, 2008

I like it! it is easy on the eye and it's good to see my premium fee going towards something.

July 23, 2008

Can't say much about the forum I didn't even hit the button twice for this nice double post!

Edited July 23, 2008 by Donmoore

1.1k · July 23, 2008

Looks good here, not sure about the maps but will stick with them for a while before deciding if we want the old map.

July 23, 2008

Change is a good thing when it works.

From here... FAIL.

Now pretty much unusable on Opera Mobile 8.6. It seems to think it has about a mile of horizontal nonexistant content to scroll to which completely messes up the broswer's navigation.

July 23, 2008

Maybe its different with you guys - I have a new front page but the subsequent pages, maps (as far as I can see) are the same.

So now we have a greenish front page and the rest, including the forum, is blue, or is it different with ypu?

Incidentally, IE7 here.

July 23, 2008

Change is a good thing when it works.

From here... FAIL.

Now pretty much unusable on Opera Mobile 8.6. It seems to think it has about a mile of horizontal nonexistant content to scroll to which completely messes up the broswer's navigation.

... further "testing"... the new Geocaching site completely screws up mobile browsing now, good and proper. Even sub pages are now displayed on Opera as tiny vertical slivers that you can't do any scrolling to.

As I was about to change to paperless and mobile caching, this is bad news.

FAIL

Edited July 23, 2008 by Eclectic Penguin

July 23, 2008

And if that's not enough our avitar is distorted, but fine here!

July 23, 2008

My account page is now reams long. :anitongue:

I like the 'Driving Directions' feature, shame I rarely drive to them! :laughing:

July 23, 2008

And if that's not enough our avitar is distorted, but fine here!

I was about to mention also that the avitar made the peguin look a bit fat on the home page too - but as Eclectic is a little rotund to start with... :anitongue:

July 23, 2008

:laughing: YOU CAN'T SEE OTHER CACHERS COUNTS IN MY FREINDS

Is that to stop compertition? :anitongue:

July 23, 2008

YOU CAN'T SEE OTHER CACHERS COUNTS IN MY FREINDS

Is that to stop compertition?

What! I reckon currykev has something to do with that! :lol:

July 23, 2008

And have you seen the driving directions :anitongue:

July 23, 2008

Just logged out to be sure that my desktop short cut was not corrupting things.

Googled "geocaching" and now all I get is a Google map thingy showing "Green Lake Park", where ever that is, and no front page, but I'm still logged in though! (Thinks he, thankful for small mercy's)

Time for bed, me thinks, must be a bad dream - it will be ok in the morning.........

July 23, 2008

The website is working fine for me... navigating it merrily. The changes are visual. The structure of the web page is still the same as before. It has just been given a refresh. A lick of paint. A nip and tuck if you will. Still recognisable but with a fresher appearance.

Agree with all this. Don't see what the fuss is about. I'm happy as long as it works and it seems to be working fine to me. My only niggle is that my avatar now appears on the home page and my account page (in itself an improvement I'd say) but as a squashed, troll-like version of its normal self!!

mj

July 23, 2008

YOU CAN'T SEE OTHER CACHERS COUNTS IN MY FREINDS

Is that to stop compertition?

What! I reckon currykev has something to do with that!

Was he not winning then (you can't say loosing it not PC)

July 23, 2008

Awww. my avatar is now presented all over the web site as a square image. It wasn't submitted as such and I don't understand why the entire Geocaching site now stretches it to a square and distorting the original.

Boo.

Edited July 23, 2008 by Eclectic Penguin

July 23, 2008

And if that's not enough our avitar is distorted, but fine here!

I have to agree with that my head was big enough before they stretched it even further. :anitongue:

July 23, 2008

Yer mine looks like I have been trodden on :anitongue:

July 23, 2008

YOU CAN'T SEE OTHER CACHERS COUNTS IN MY FREINDS

Is that to stop compertition?

What! I reckon currykev has something to do with that!

Was he not winning then (you can't say loosing it not PC)

No, no ,no, he's ahead, just slipping ahead :lol:

July 23, 2008

Avitar representation....

FAIL

Mine looks like I've put on loads of weight.

Oh... ok. I'll get my coat then...

Just checked though - the new web site is still shockingly bad for Opera Mobile users. I hope they sort this out soon as this weekend was going to be my branch out to use paperless Geocaching using Pocket PC...

FAIL

Edited July 23, 2008 by Eclectic Penguin

July 23, 2008

And have you seen the driving directions

Yes they are great.

I just checked the route from my house to a cache I did in SW France a few days ago and I think it was pretty accurate.

Anybody want to buy a Tom Tom Sat Nav? :laughing:

Edited July 23, 2008 by overanout

July 23, 2008

Does anybody know what is meant by "Added region search to UK and Ireland"? I tought for a minute they'd added UK counties etc instead of just "In United Kingdom", but I see no sign of any such feature...

9.3k · July 23, 2008

Profile page squished avi.

Cache page, Greasemonkey script to show own logs/notes on caches not working... :anitongue:

Lack of 'contrast' on pages... unsuitable for those with less than perfect vision? :laughing:

July 23, 2008

Just been logging some caches that I have done over the last three days and it gives today's date on each log rather than previous dates that I had adjusted the counter to display.

Stardate: 4 hours later- "Date working now!"

Edited July 24, 2008 by Budlaw

July 23, 2008

Radishes! Repeating myself!

Edited July 23, 2008 by Budlaw

9.3k · July 23, 2008

New image, for multiple TB's?

July 24, 2008

Lack of 'contrast' on pages... unsuitable for those with less than perfect vision?

The user of the PC has to change their colours on the screen. That's what the users in our work have to do. Ultimately the majority are unaffected and the minority have a work around.

1.3k · July 24, 2008

There's a new Guide to Geocaching for downloading in PDF format and printing off on the Resources page :laughing:

2.3k · July 24, 2008

Unfortunately my stat page still shows I'm only ranked 144th in the UK. :laughing:

1.7k · July 24, 2008

TB inventory now appears underneath the 'recent caching activity' on the account page - which means it probably won't be seen very much - wouldn't this be better at the top, or at leat on the side where it was?!

1.7k · July 24, 2008

The 'new' look of the pages looks very old fashioned to me and the profile pages are a mess! :laughing:

But wait!

Did anyone notice this:

An error will now be generated when attempting to transfer ownership of a virtual or webcam cache using the /adopt tool

Does this mean that they are no longer adoptable?

M

July 24, 2008

By the way, if anyone's interested, The release notes are here:

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=199518

1.6k · July 24, 2008

Initial Release Notes are Here in this topic by Nate

To save you wadding through looking for more posts by him

If you intend to post to that topic, please read it all, in case what you intend to post about has already been raised

Does anybody know what is meant by"Added region search to UK and Ireland"?

We've now got Regions in the UK, so hopefully the Regions Search Filter is fully functional now.

For a explanation please see

This post for the initial decision on Regions

And this Topic discussing the implimentation of the Regions

An error will now be generated when attempting to transfer ownership of a virtual or webcam cache using the /adopt tool

Ah I wondered how long it would take someone to spot this. Unfortunately they have been locked back down. Please remember that they were originally locked down, it was only due to a previous Coding Update that they were accidental unlocked. Groundspeak always intended in rectifying this.

1.7k · July 24, 2008

An error will now be generated when attempting to transfer ownership of a virtual or webcam cache using the /adopt tool

Ah I wondered how long it would take someone to spot this. Unfortunately they have been locked back down. Please remember that they were originally locked down, it was only due to a previous Coding Update that they were accidental unlocked. Groundspeak always intended in rectifying this.

i thought it was non-consensual, or forced, adoption which was blocked? I must confess, I don't recall adoptions being blocked if both parties were happy...

Just out of interest, and I appreciate this is somewhat wishful thinking, but have Groundspeak ever considered asking any of its users/customers about any substantial changes like this? (ie, getting rid of virtuals, not the updating of the graphics...) I'm sure we in the UK aren't the only ones who like virtuals, and our friends in the US must be rather peev'd off about this as well!

1.7k · July 24, 2008

Search by postcode no longer works: putting in my works postcode produces a list of caches in Germany

and our home post code produces caches in Ireland. I only work 16 miles from home!!

:laughing:

July 24, 2008

On the whole, I like the new look and feel presented on the front page.

However, as mentioned earlier, there are a few wrinkles that need ironing out with regard to browser compatibility and some feature bugs that have been introduced.

All change again...

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