+frefel Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 I haven't logged into geocaching.com for a while and was recently unpleasently surprised to see a facebook button/tab/whatever right in the middle of the page I was trying to read - requiring me to shift the page up and down to uncover the contents. I do not use facebook but I do pay for my Premium membership here so I hope someone can help me get rid of that obtrusive "in my face" obstacle. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
+LukeTrocity Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 I haven't logged into geocaching.com for a while and was recently unpleasently surprised to see a facebook button/tab/whatever right in the middle of the page I was trying to read - requiring me to shift the page up and down to uncover the contents. I do not use facebook but I do pay for my Premium membership here so I hope someone can help me get rid of that obtrusive "in my face" obstacle. Thanks. Can you post a screenshot of this eyesore? I see a small section at the bottom of the threads but nothing to the degree your describing. Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 The only Facebook presence on this site are the "share" links at the bottom of the Forum screen, and the small link on the main Geocaching.com homepage to take followers to the official Geocaching.com page on Facebook. Both link images look like this: Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Just a thought... I wonder if you mean the Feedback tab on the left side of each page? When I first saw it I thought it said Facebook. It is kinda annoying, in my opinion. Quote Link to comment
+Coldgears Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Just a thought... I wonder if you mean the Feedback tab on the left side of each page? When I first saw it I thought it said Facebook. It is kinda annoying, in my opinion. DING. I think we have a winner. It also moves as you scroll, and he was having issues with the scrolling too. Quote Link to comment
GOF and Bacall Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Just a thought... I wonder if you mean the Feedback tab on the left side of each page? When I first saw it I thought it said Facebook. It is kinda annoying, in my opinion. DING. I think we have a winner. It also moves as you scroll, and he was having issues with the scrolling too. Actually the stupid thing doesn't move. The whole page moves but that tab stays right there. Why? Why is that the one thing that stays right there on your screen at all times? Quote Link to comment
Pup Patrol Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 I haven't logged into geocaching.com for a while and was recently unpleasently surprised to see a facebook button/tab/whatever right in the middle of the page I was trying to read - requiring me to shift the page up and down to uncover the contents. I do not use facebook but I do pay for my Premium membership here so I hope someone can help me get rid of that obtrusive "in my face" obstacle. Thanks. There's a Feedback tab on the left side, but I don't see anything in the middle of the page. Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Just a thought... I wonder if you mean the Feedback tab on the left side of each page? When I first saw it I thought it said Facebook. It is kinda annoying, in my opinion. DING. I think we have a winner. It also moves as you scroll, and he was having issues with the scrolling too. Actually the stupid thing doesn't move. The whole page moves but that tab stays right there. Why? Why is that the one thing that stays right there on your screen at all times? Oh, I'm seeing that thing pop up on many websites I use lately, not just this one. And it doesn't move on any of them, either. I don't know, I'm out of the loop here, it used to be the vendor "Get Satisfaction" that was behind the whole feedback thing, but a troll brought that down. I assume this is a different vendor now? I don't know, someone help me out here. Quote Link to comment
GOF and Bacall Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 It is a vendor called uservoice. I am sure that it is a widget supplied by uservoice. That certainly doesn't make it any less an annoying piece of sewage. Quote Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 (edited) If you use AdBlock: 1. Open AdBlock Preferences 2. Click Add Filter button (lower left) 3. Enter this : geocaching.com#div(id=uservoice-feedback) 4. Press ENTER 5. Click OK Now, can someone tell me how to AdBlock the irritating favorites status box everytime I log a find? I tried, it should have worked, but it doesn't. Edited May 9, 2011 by Chrysalides Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Yes. The feedback button used to be off to the side of the page, in the background. With whatever was done to the page sizing, it now shows up on the edge of the listing, obscuring the first few letters. It's incredibly annoying. Quote Link to comment
+power69 Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 If you use AdBlock: 1. Open AdBlock Preferences 2. Click Add Filter button (lower left) 3. Enter this : geocaching.com#div(id=uservoice-feedback) 4. Press ENTER 5. Click OK Now, can someone tell me how to AdBlock the irritating favorites status box everytime I log a find? I tried, it should have worked, but it doesn't. ive seen code for that favs thing posted before for adblock. I don't use it or block ads at all[that breaks many sites functions i use(not this one) Until UBB comes here i probably won't either. Quote Link to comment
+frefel Posted May 9, 2011 Author Share Posted May 9, 2011 (edited) This is truly embarrassing - yes it is a ¨Feedback¨ tab, not a facebook one. Nevertheless it blocks text and doesn´t need to occupy so much valuable space. Edited May 9, 2011 by frefel Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Yes. The feedback button used to be off to the side of the page, in the background. With whatever was done to the page sizing, it now shows up on the edge of the listing, obscuring the first few letters. It's incredibly annoying. Sorry, I missed that. It is much more prominent, and annoying than it used to be. Quote Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 ive seen code for that favs thing posted before for adblock. The one that used to work stopped working after the recent upgrade. I tried modifying it to account for the renaming, but it didn't work. I need assistance from someone with better HTML kung fu. Quote Link to comment
+dfx Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Now, can someone tell me how to AdBlock the irritating favorites status box everytime I log a find? I tried, it should have worked, but it doesn't. geocaching.com#div(class=span-10 FavoritesStatusWidget) Quote Link to comment
+JBnW Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 (edited) FYI, this ticket was recently opened in the Feedback Forum. edit:spellin Edited May 9, 2011 by JBnW Quote Link to comment
+frefel Posted May 9, 2011 Author Share Posted May 9, 2011 Thanks for the edit. I tried to do that but couldn´t figure out how to alter the title so I resigned myself to permanent shame. Quote Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 I tried to do that but couldn´t figure out how to alter the title so I resigned myself to permanent shame. If it's any comfort, the first time I saw that tab, I thought it said "Facebook" as well... dfx : thanks! Quote Link to comment
+Chokecherry Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 I hate this tab covering up the letters on the left side. Makes reading a cache page no fun at all. But I have a small monitor (as I never needed a wide screen big one). I'm guessing this is more of a problem for people with small monitors versus the larger ones judging by all the comments about white space on other topics. Quote Link to comment
+Markwell Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Well, then - submit something to the Feedback area... Quote Link to comment
+JBnW Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Well, then - submit something to the Feedback area... FYI, this ticket was recently opened in the Feedback Forum. Already done by Chokecherry. How's that coming along? Quote Link to comment
+Chokecherry Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Well, then - submit something to the Feedback area... FYI, this ticket was recently opened in the Feedback Forum. Already done by Chokecherry. How's that coming along? It's on some list somewhere to be looked at... then again I've seen many things on lists somewhere to be looked at. Quote Link to comment
GOF and Bacall Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Well, then - submit something to the Feedback area... Why? Quote Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 The feedback tab is a little annoying, but it doesn't seem to be covering up anything on the cache pages... A 1600 x 1200 screen must be large enough that that's not a problem That's right. Try resizing your browser window smaller and you'll see why some people are unhappy. Quote Link to comment
+Don_J Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Thanks for the edit. I tried to do that but couldn´t figure out how to alter the title so I resigned myself to permanent shame. Don't worry about it. I submitted a topic with two misspelled words. They were real words used in our language, but they were not the right words. That darn hound dog chased me around the tree three times. Quote Link to comment
+t4e Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Yes. The feedback button used to be off to the side of the page, in the background. With whatever was done to the page sizing, it now shows up on the edge of the listing, obscuring the first few letters. It's incredibly annoying. This is truly embarrassing - yes it is a ¨Feedback¨ tab, not a facebook one. Nevertheless it blocks text and doesn´t need to occupy so much valuable space. i am guessing you see it on the way due to your screen size and resolution because for me is totally out of the way on the left not interfering with anything "feedback" button is that little thing to the far left Quote Link to comment
+t4e Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Well, then - submit something to the Feedback area... Why? pinehurst? Quote Link to comment
+Doctroid Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 i am guessing you see it on the way due to your screen size and resolution because for me is totally out of the way on the left not interfering with anything "feedback" button is that little thing to the far left Yep, in fact with my preferred window size, the feedback tab is so far off to the left I basically never even noticed it was there! Bad interface design on both ends. Quote Link to comment
+Panther&Pine Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 The only time I've notice the feedback thingy being too big is when I"m veiwing the page (entire page) on my phone (I've got a BlackBerry... and still haven't figured out what app to use on it...). What size monitor (or veiw device) are you using? Quote Link to comment
+frefel Posted May 10, 2011 Author Share Posted May 10, 2011 Thanks to all of you who have supported my displeasure at the feedback tab. I am on vacation with my Acer Aspire One netbook. It has quite a small screen so that must be the reason the feedback tab is so obnoxious on my computer. I could resize the landscape but it would be ¨robbing Peter to pay Paul¨ on this tiny laptop. Therefore I´ll stick with my complaint that Feedback should not occupy any more prime real estate on my personal geocahing pages than many of the other functions relegated to the sidebar. Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Yes. The feedback button used to be off to the side of the page, in the background. With whatever was done to the page sizing, it now shows up on the edge of the listing, obscuring the first few letters. It's incredibly annoying. This is truly embarrassing - yes it is a ¨Feedback¨ tab, not a facebook one. Nevertheless it blocks text and doesn´t need to occupy so much valuable space. i am guessing you see it on the way due to your screen size and resolution because for me is totally out of the way on the left not interfering with anything "feedback" button is that little thing to the far left For those of us who cannot afford the newest spiffy stuff, ad/or who are visually impaired and find that 1024x768 is the screen size that we can read best, the feedback button looks like this: Rather sad when 'improvements' cause problems for the visually impaired. Quote Link to comment
+t4e Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 For those of us who cannot afford the newest spiffy stuff, ad/or who are visually impaired and find that 1024x768 is the screen size that we can read best, the feedback button looks like this: Rather sad when 'improvements' cause problems for the visually impaired. that is annoying indeed Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Well, then - submit something to the Feedback area... How do we get to the Feedback area? <ducking!> Quote Link to comment
+frefel Posted May 11, 2011 Author Share Posted May 11, 2011 It is somewhat ironic to be complaining about the Feedback tab and then to have to use it to submit feedback. I have already submitted and hope others will also. Quote Link to comment
jholly Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 It is somewhat ironic to be complaining about the Feedback tab and then to have to use it to submit feedback. I have already submitted and hope others will also. It is sort of like when email is down at work, you need to send the IT support folks an email informing them the email is down. Quote Link to comment
+Chokecherry Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Well, then - submit something to the Feedback area... How do we get to the Feedback area? <ducking!> I just posted the feedback topic on a wing and a prayer and screwed it up in the process. Was surprised that anyone found it and voted on it. lol Quote Link to comment
+JBnW Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 Well, then - submit something to the Feedback area... How do we get to the Feedback area? <ducking!> I just posted the feedback topic on a wing and a prayer and screwed it up in the process. Was surprised that anyone found it and voted on it. lol Hey!! Who you calling "anybody"?!? I'll have you know I'm a Charter Nobody thankyouverymuch! Quote Link to comment
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