Andronicus Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 OK, I realize that caches get archived. But really; it decreased by almost 1000! Link to comment
+Great Scott! Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Thursday night is Volunteer Reviewer Game Night. They have a giant word search board that the Lakeys create every week. Hidden in it are the names of geocaches. When a geocache is found in the word search, it is scratched off the game board and archived off the web site. That's what I heard... Link to comment
+Great Scott! Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 (edited) The other rumor is that Garmin asked the Mothership to archive all the cross-posted geocaches from their site. Groundspeak is complying to the request. Edited February 22, 2013 by Great Scott! Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 OK, I realize that caches get archived. But really; it decreased by almost 1000! Somebody archived their powertrail. All the cut-and-paste logs were unexpected, and unacceptable. Link to comment
Keystone Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Winter is a tough time for geocaches in the Northern latitudes. A poor cache container that made it through autumn may fall victim to the insistent invasion of snow, ice and rain during freeze/thaw cycles. Owners of caches that are missing or reported as needing maintenance are more likely to just archive their listing rather than venturing out to repair the cache during a snowstorm. The pace of new cache hides also slows down. There are days in January and February when I only publish two to five caches. On a sunny weekend in August, I might publish 50 to 100. New cache hides spike in March, when fair weather cachers emerge from their workshops with a full winter's worth of carefully camo'd crafty containers. With more time on our hands, many reviewers spend winter evenings looking through caches in their territory that require maintenance, and leaving reminder notes for the owners. If there's no response after a reasonable time (I give a month), then the troubled caches may be archived for lack of maintenance. This opens up areas to new springtime cache placements, and increases the odds that a family enjoying a springtime caching trip will find dry cache containers instead of moldy logbooks, and will log smileys on caches that are in place instead of frownies on missing caches. I just checked, and I'm scheduled to archive forty caches over the next five days. That number will likely exceed the number of new caches I publish in the same period. Link to comment
Andronicus Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 I would love to see a graph of all of this. I love pointless statistics. Link to comment
+ecumountaineer Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 (edited) I would love to see a graph of all of this. I love pointless statistics. Same here, it pretty much sums up my life. The countdown probably decreased so much due to less new caches. People want that 2,000,000th I betcha. There will be tons of new ones in the last 100 caches to reach two million. Edited February 22, 2013 by ecumountaineer Link to comment
+threenow24 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 I just checked, and I'm scheduled to archive forty caches over the next five days. That number will likely exceed the number of new caches I publish in the same period. Link to comment
+JL_HSTRE Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 How about we start archiving caches to ensure we never actually get to 2 million? Link to comment
+wmpastor Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 How about we start archiving caches to ensure we never actually get to 2 million? Conspiracy theorists say that many thousands more will be archived to manipulate the 2 million mark! The masses are seizing power like never before! Link to comment
Andronicus Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 The number is going up again. Link to comment
Keystone Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 The number is going up again. Bearing in mind that the average reviewer publishes more caches in the late evening or early morning than at other times of the day, you may observe "spikes" throughout the day as caches are published -- first in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Korea, then later on in Europe, and then five or six hours later in the USA and Canada. It will be interesting to see the total when I wake up tomorrow, after my colleagues in timezones east of me have already completed their morning publications. Link to comment
+jellis Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Curious do they add Events to that count and then when the Event gets archived it lowers the amount? Link to comment
+SoloSeekers ヅ Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 The count has dropped more than 100 since I signed on 20 minutes ago! Link to comment
4wheelin_fool Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 1,997,155 If you see a different #, post it and we'll use the thread to track it. Link to comment
Andronicus Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 Does anyone know if there is a URL that can be linked to for the countdown number? Link to comment
Andronicus Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 1,997,151 1,997,150 Link to comment
Andronicus Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 Does anyone know if there is a URL that can be linked to for the countdown number? I just was goofing around with the "inspect element" feature in Crome. You can acctualy change the count that appears by tweeking the html. Link to comment
Andronicus Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 1,997,151 1,997,150 1,997,155 Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 1,997,151 1,997,150 This is going to be a long thread...can we limit reports for numbers with more than a 100 cache difference? Link to comment
Andronicus Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 1,997,151 1,997,150 1,997,155 1,997,192 Link to comment
4wheelin_fool Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 1,997,151 1,997,150 1,997,155 1,997,192 1,997,205 Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 This is going to be a long thread...can we limit reports for numbers with more than a 100 cache difference? 1,997,151 1,997,150 1,997,155 1,997,192 1,997,205 I think that's a no. Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 1,997,205 1,997,108 Link to comment
+redants Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Its gone up 7- 1,997,115 Link to comment
+tallgaloot Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 1,997,128 I have this theory that people are hiding caches but waiting to post them in hopes that they get the coveted 2 millionth cache. Link to comment
BlueRajah Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 1,997,128 I have this theory that people are hiding caches but waiting to post them in hopes that they get the coveted 2 millionth cache. That would not surprise me. Also with the cold in the northern hemisphere, most place caches on the weekend. The surge will take place Sunday/Monday. Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 1,997,215! As if... Link to comment
Troutonthebrain Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Climbing a little, 1,997,240. Link to comment
+Mudfrog Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Up 52 to 1,997,292 on 2-23-13 at 0051 hours CST. Link to comment
+redants Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 1,997,486 Its going up... Link to comment
+CanadianRockies Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 1,997,486 Its going up... 1,997,450 And it's going down... Link to comment
Andronicus Posted February 24, 2013 Author Share Posted February 24, 2013 1,997,486 Its going up... 1,997,450 And it's going down... 1,997,412 And down... Link to comment
4wheelin_fool Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 1,997,416 up by four. This could take a few months.. Link to comment
+Roman! Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 1,997,142 2 steps forward, 2 steps back. Link to comment
+Condorito Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 Here goes... 1,997,868 at 10:46 PM AEST 24/02/2013... Link to comment
+Markwell Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 1,997,949 Hmmm... maybe we should just get out and find caches. Link to comment
+larryc43230 Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 1,997,949 Hmmm... maybe we should just get out and find hide caches. Fixed it for you (I'm sure that's what Groundspeak is hoping for). --Larry Link to comment
+ecumountaineer Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 1,998,James Bond Link to comment
+wmpastor Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 This is going to be a long thread...can we limit reports for numbers with more than a 100 cache difference? 1,997,151 1,997,150 1,997,155 1,997,192 1,997,205 I think that's a no. I think it's a mania. Do you think msnbc or someone will start broadcasting a minute-by-minute chart on tv?! Link to comment
+zargfinders Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 1,998,209 This is going to be a long thread...can we limit reports for numbers with more than a 100 cache difference? 1,997,151 1,997,150 1,997,155 1,997,192 1,997,205 I think that's a no. I think it's a mania. Do you think msnbc or someone will start broadcasting a minute-by-minute chart on tv?! Link to comment
+TerraViators Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 Are disabled geocaches part of this tally? Link to comment
+Great Scott! Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 Yes, temporarily disabled caches are counted as active caches. Link to comment
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