+mbbaumann Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I opened the site last night and my profile page had 5 recently viewed cache pages listed. My question is, Why? I don't really understand why this is necessary or desirable. Am I the only one scratching my head over this "update"? Quote Link to comment
+Colourman Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 How do I get rid of this annoying new addition. It is taking over the page. Colourman Quote Link to comment
+little-leggs Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I too find to latest up-date a bit baffling ,, WHY ,, I think I now which cache Ive just looked at ? In my view this space would have been better applied to ( TRACKABLES YOU ARE STILL HOLDING ) and need to get back out for others to find and MOVE .. and not let them sit at the bottom of your caching bag for months on end lets FLAG it up .. ***** you need to move this trackable item ******** Quote Link to comment
+Delta68 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 EEK! I only just realised 'Recently Viewed Caches' is on the private profile page! What a pointless addition!! Looks like YET another Adblock filter is required... Mark Quote Link to comment
+Delta68 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Fixed! ABP filter: geocaching.com##div#ctl00_ContentBody_RecentlyViewedCachesPanel Quote Link to comment
+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Nope, didn't like it. Can we can a control to not display this less than useful feature? Quote Link to comment
+Pointme2 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Why in the world would anyone need this feature? When I do want to see recent activity that I've done, I don't want to have to page down below "recently viewed caches"! This is VERY annoying! Please get rid of it! Quote Link to comment
Moun10Bike Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 This board is for feature requests and bug reports. As this is neither, I'm moving it to the community discussion area. Quote Link to comment
+TerraViators Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 This board is for feature requests and bug reports. As this is neither, I'm moving it to the community discussion area. anybody find a way to remove this garbage? Quote Link to comment
+Delta68 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 anybody find a way to remove this garbage? Use Adblock Plus filters (see my post above) I don't expect Groundspeak will reverse the change because it's not a bug Mark Quote Link to comment
+TerraViators Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 anybody find a way to remove this garbage? Use Adblock Plus filters (see my post above) I don't expect Groundspeak will reverse the change because it's not a bug Mark Sorry, Mark. I'm unfamiliar with your solution. Could you be more specific? Thanks. Quote Link to comment
+TerraViators Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 anybody find a way to remove this garbage? Use Adblock Plus filters (see my post above) I don't expect Groundspeak will reverse the change because it's not a bug Mark Sorry, Mark. I'm unfamiliar with your solution. Could you be more specific? Thanks. nevermind, Mark. I figured out it's something for Firefox. I use IE. Thanks, anyway. Quote Link to comment
+thebruce0 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 They could easily implement a nice hotfix that allows toggling the box on or off (and remembering). Very easily done, entirely front-end javascript & a cookie, at the least. Quote Link to comment
+CAKnowles Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I'm thinking i don't like this new format. Is there a way to delete the Recently Viewed Caches, so we don't have them on the front page. Or better yet put this display in the "Lists" Quote Link to comment
team tisri Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I opened the site last night and my profile page had 5 recently viewed cache pages listed. My question is, Why? I don't really understand why this is necessary or desirable. Am I the only one scratching my head over this "update"? It seems like another "update" that adds no value and clutters the screen. I'd rather see the annoying date bug that was recently introduced fixed, and the even more annoying bug that keeps reverting all the caches on the map to show as unfound (which has been there for many months) fixed. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I'm thinking i don't like this new format. Is there a way to delete the Recently Viewed Caches, so we don't have them on the front page. Or better yet put this display in the "Lists"It isn't in the Lists tab. Instead, the full list of your 50 most recently viewed caches has it's own tab: Quick View | Lists | Geocaches (Yours) (Recently Viewed) | Trackable Items (Yours) | [...] All that's left is to get rid of the short list on your Quick View page. I used an Adblock Plus filter: geocaching.com##div#ctl00_ContentBody_RecentlyViewedCachesPanel(I don't subscribe to any of the ad filters. I use Adblock Plus just for hiding annoying site features like this.) Quote Link to comment
jholly Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 (I don't subscribe to any of the ad filters. I use Adblock Plus just for hiding annoying site features like this.) That right there is sad. I also use ABP to get rid of the garbage that GS has spent developer time on and constantly expend server resources on. With such a long list of desired features and enhancements to existing features and API enhancements it boogles my mind that they expend resources on stuff like this. If there was ever a totally and completely useless feature this has to be it. Quote Link to comment
+NanCycle Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Please oh please, let's get rid of this!! Or at least, if there's any good reason for keeping it, put it on the "Lists" tab so it's not so IN YOUR FACE. Quote Link to comment
+kantear Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=288964&st=0&gopid=4950203entry4950203 Quote Link to comment
+Delta68 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 (I don't subscribe to any of the ad filters. I use Adblock Plus just for hiding annoying site features like this.) Same here! There must be something seriously wrong with a website where the adverts are less annoying than the site's own features! :blink: Quote Link to comment
+The HERB5 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Out of interest, does it go by browse history only ? If you log a cache via App, do these appear too. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 (I don't subscribe to any of the ad filters. I use Adblock Plus just for hiding annoying site features like this.)Same here!There must be something seriously wrong with a website where the adverts are less annoying than the site's own features! Well, yes. But it isn't a new thing. I've been using browser features and plugins to work around badly designed web sites for more than a decade. Quote Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Out of interest, does it go by browse history only ?If you log a cache via App, do these appear too. I don't know about the official app, but when I view or log a cache with c:geo, the cache is added to the list. Which is expected and I'm fine with it. Quote Link to comment
+thebruce0 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 That's because c:geo scrapes the cache listing page (tsk), and if it uses your login credentials, the website thinks you've visited the page, thus the listing will appear in your recently viewed section. "c:geo" is not a supported Groundspeak app. Quote Link to comment
+larryc43230 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Out of interest, does it go by browse history only ? If you log a cache via App, do these appear too. I just checked some of this out using the "official" Geocaching app on my Droid. If I Find Nearby Caches and select a cache in the list, the cache isn't added to the Recently Viewed Caches list, even after viewing the Description, the Recent Logs, and the Hint. If I select View on Geocaching. com, this fires up the Droid's browser to display the cache, and the cache immediately appears on the Recently Viewed Caches list. This makes me think that Web-based access, or look-ups that appear like Web-based access (think c:geo) trigger the addition. I don't have any caches to log, so I didn't check out whether entering a log per se triggers an entry. --Larry Quote Link to comment
+larryc43230 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Just for fun, I selected one of my own caches using the "official" app and posted a note to it (without first looking at the cache page with any Web browser). It took a couple of minutes, but that did trigger an entry in the Recently Viewed Caches list. --Larry Quote Link to comment
+thebruce0 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Just for fun, I selected one of my own caches using the "official" app and posted a note to it (without first looking at the cache page with any Web browser). It took a couple of minutes, but that did trigger an entry in the Recently Viewed Caches list. --Larry What's this "official" app? The official app, or another that that's not official? Quote Link to comment
+larryc43230 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Just for fun, I selected one of my own caches using the "official" app and posted a note to it (without first looking at the cache page with any Web browser). It took a couple of minutes, but that did trigger an entry in the Recently Viewed Caches list. --Larry What's this "official" app? The official app, or another that that's not official? I am referring to The Groundspeak Geocaching Application, of course. Groundspeak never uses the term "official app" anywhere, so I tend to place the "official" in quotes. You knew perfectly well what I was talking about. --Larry Quote Link to comment
+thebruce0 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 I am referring to The Groundspeak Geocaching Application, of course. Groundspeak never uses the term "official app" anywhere, so I tend to place the "official" in quotes. You knew perfectly well what I was talking about. --Larry Actually I didn't, as I didn't recall if you were referring to the iPhone app or an Android app... either way, if it's published by Groundspeak, it is official, so "official" had me wondering what you were referring to. No harm no foul. Interesting that the official app is registering a page view on the listing though. Is it actually visibly loading the web page on the device? It could otherwise be that they're considering views from within the mobile app (not a browser view) equivalent to a web view and logging that (unlike c:geo which is effectively emulating a browser view by scraping its content). Quote Link to comment
+larryc43230 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Interesting that the official app is registering a page view on the listing though. Is it actually visibly loading the web page on the device? It could otherwise be that they're considering views from within the mobile app (not a browser view) equivalent to a web view and logging that (unlike c:geo which is effectively emulating a browser view by scraping its content). If all I do is view the Description, the Recent Logs, or the Hint (all this apparently being done inside the app), it doesn't register as a Recently Viewed Cache on the Web site. It's only when I select "View on Geocaching.com", which launches the phone's browser, that the cache shows up in the list. So it does seem that only browser views, or emulations thereof, add an entry to the list. --Larry Quote Link to comment
+The HERB5 Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 I actually quite like it now... Quote Link to comment
+L0ne.R Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 I actually quite like it now... How are you using it? Quote Link to comment
+Totem Clan Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 I actually quite like it now... How are you using it? I use it as quick to find the listing of cache I was looking at and then to go back to. Mainly just because it's there. I could less one way or the orther. If if stays, fine. If it goes, fine. Quote Link to comment
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