Is it just me?....

[+Alibags]

I was just looking at one of my cache listings and noticed that there appears to be a fragment of dutch text in the short description, which seemed to be part of the cache description of a multicache. "Strange" I think, and then go to edit the cache page to see if there is anything lurking in the code... nope. On exiting the edit page, I seem to now have something simliar, but it looks like German text now. Take at look at the cache page and tell me if you see it too, or am I just going slightly mad? <--- note green crayon

 

I wonder if something not entirely wholesome has happened to the gc.com database?

[+Simply B]

An Earthcache is a virtual cache set to give visitors an insight into the geology of our world. This one is known throughout the world and is regarded by English Nature as the 'jewel in the crown' of its Sites of Special Scientific Interest AƐČᴈ瞿

That's what I saw. Looks like aliens are taking it over now.

[+Malpas Wanderer]

I don't seem able to log trackables by entering the tracking number either so imagine certain areas of the database are down.

 

Trackables seem viewable when accessed from the cache page inventory though

[+The Blorenges]

I was just looking at one of my cache listings and noticed that there appears to be a fragment of dutch text in the short description, which seemed to be part of the cache description of a multicache. "Strange" I think, and then go to edit the cache page to see if there is anything lurking in the code... nope. On exiting the edit page, I seem to now have something simliar, but it looks like German text now. Take at look at the cache page and tell me if you see it too, or am I just going slightly mad? <--- note green crayon

 

I wonder if something not entirely wholesome has happened to the gc.com database?

 

Yes.

 

It's there.

 

It's been happening randomly for a while now.

 

GSP are aware of it.

 

Nobody's been able to solve what's causing it... as yet.

 

So I've been told

 

MrsB

[+The Mad MG's]

I had the same thing happen to me the other week. I had just installed the firefox addon xinha, so thought maybe that was the problem for the weird text.

I got rid of it on my cache page by editing in Internet Explorer.

 

Sean & Sue

[+Pharisee]

Looking at your cache page using Internet Explorer, I can't see anything wrong with. There isn't any German text or anything else that shouldn't be there. I have noticed that my travel bug / geocoin mileages aren't updating, though. I keep track of them all on an Excel spreadsheet and update the mileage at every move. Some have moved two or three times now over the last few days but the mileage hasn't increased.

[+MartyBartfast]

I had a look when you posted last night and there were several apparently random non-ascii characters at the end of the brief description. Looked this morning and it's not here. Def something wrong at GC.com.

[+The Blorenges]

It can sometimes be fixed by editing the text and changing just a single character or putting a space in and then saving it. I pm'd Alibags last night about it. Guess she's not updated this post. Here is another cache with the same problem. It's actually a German cache.

 

Chris (MrB)

[Edgemaster]

I last saw this issue about a year back, I queried it with someone in the know at the time, and it appeared it was a known issue with unknown cause. Tis very weird, since the extra text seems to have some aspect of randomness regarding what it gives you.

 

I think we (techies in geochat) speculated over causes, but came to no firm conclusions. Other than to blame Microsoft of course

[+Alibags]

Well, I am glad it was not just me. When I checked my cache again today the problem seems to have been resolved (although there are a few green cormorant footprints in the code! Thanks Graculus).

Edited March 2, 2009 by Alibags