Geocaching.com New Look

[+fitbobcat]

Sorry if this is the wrong place but have any of you noticed the new geocaching.com look. I was on the website and it just changed on me.

[+Roman!]

Sorry if this is the wrong place but have any of you noticed the new geocaching.com look. I was on the website and it just changed on me.

 

i don't like it, the green is too bright.

[+St.Matthew]

It's weird. I don't like it. Better mistakes!

[+Roman!]

It's weird. I don't like it. Better mistakes!

 

At least they're not making another 334 souvenirs.

[+Kacher82]

It's weird. I don't like it. Better mistakes!

 

At least they're not making another 334 souvenirs.

How do you know? They won't tell us until they release them.

[+fitbobcat]

I personally like it but I already found a bug on it. I think they should create different themes every other month.

[+Roman!]

It's weird. I don't like it. Better mistakes!

 

At least they're not making another 334 souvenirs.

How do you know? They won't tell us until they release them.

 

Good point, their slogan about better mistakes has to be one of their biggest mistakes, it'll haunt them forever.

[+Roman!]

I personally like it but I already found a bug on it. I think they should create different themes every other month.

 

Maybe you could earn themes by caching on certain days (kinda like souvenirs ) and then select which theme you want to use.

[+Kacher82]

It's not bad. I'll get used to it. Certainly is a bit bolder.

 

I wonder when they'll release the new cache page design to everyone? I still see the old page on this computer.

[+Roman!]

 

Doesn't the icon look like it could use an "M" in the middle?

[+Straight-Cache-Homey]

Looks great! Big improvement... I like it a lot.

[+Mudfrog]

I noticed the difference this afternoon and yes, it looks pretty slick!

[+St.Matthew]

 

Doesn't the icon look like it could use an "M" in the middle?

 

Only if you want to be bored to tears. I think it looks like Eve from Wall-E.

[+hukilaulau]

Well, the biggest problem is, it won't let me log in...

yeah, that's kind of important

[+SwineFlew]

The colors remind me what is in my toilet.

 

Why fix something that isnt broken?

[+Fridge01]

The headers are missing on mine. I have to find the links in the dark and from memory.

[+Roman!]

The colors remind me what is in my toilet.

 

Why fix something that isnt broken?

 

That background brown, totally, and te green, maybe after a few too many beer.

[+The A-Team]

Why fix something that isnt broken?

^Exactly this a thousand times.

 

They tell us one day that they can't implement what we want due to lack of resources, then the next they make a completely unnecessary cosmetic change. Too bad they couldn't have spent that time finishing what they started or listening to our requests.

 

I have no problem with how the new version looks, I just don't see why they needed to do it in the first place.

[+Harry Dolphin]

For someone with vision problems, the colors are atrocious! They hurt my eyes.

[kanchan]

Sorry if this is the wrong place but have any of you noticed the new geocaching.com look. I was on the website and it just changed on me.

I have to click once just to know if I gave a favorite point to the cache I'm seeing, and click even twice just to award a favorite point to it. I feel that Groundspeack is now discouraging favorite points.

[+SwineFlew]

For someone with vision problems, the colors are atrocious! They hurt my eyes.

GS needs to hire someone that understand how color affect people with eye problems.

 

A good share of cachers are older people.

[+SwineFlew]

The colors remind me what is in my toilet.

 

Why fix something that isnt broken?

 

That background brown, totally, and te green, maybe after a few too many beer.

Yep!!! Just nasty!

[+Ma & Pa]

I need the links at the top of the page to navigate the site and get me to the page with my recent logs, unpublished caches, etc.

 

I hate it

[+The_Incredibles_]

What's with the goats? I thought the old design was much better.

[+Mudfrog]

The headers are missing on mine. I have to find the links in the dark and from memory.

 

Headers were missing the first time i looked at one of the cache pages. I then clicked the gc.com homepage button but it didn't load up all the way. Refreshed one time and everything looked good. Went back to the cache page and the headers were there. Not sure what was going on. Seems to be working fine now..

[+fitbobcat]

Unable to login to geocaching.com. I am going to wait until they fix it. They should realy have beta users to test theese things out before they release them and cause problems for everyone.

[+cache_test_dummies]

What's with the goats?

I agree. They are obviously looking in the wrong place.

 

 

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[+NYPaddleCacher]

For someone with vision problems, the colors are atrocious! They hurt my eyes.

 

I don't think the color is that bad, but the contrast in the header is a bit much. It is interesting that they changed the icons (another development effort nobody asked for) there was too little contrast and the new theme has too much.

[+Maingray]

I like. Thanks for a little puff of fresh air!

[nonaeroterraqueous]

I like to see something new every now and then, so I appreciate the effort to mix it up a little and change the appearance. Overall, I like it, but the front page has too much space devoted to a picture with no links. All links have migrated to the outer edges of the page. Link availability is important to anyone unfamiliar with the site, because if I've never been here before then I don't know what's important. There's no visual suggestion as to where I ought to go from here. The "Learn more about geocaching and how you can join the adventure" link is a good one to have in the middle, but it got a weak presentation, not having any clickable image associated with it to help draw one's attention to it. I think the previous appearance was probably the better of the two, objectively speaking.

[+Frank Broughton]

Looks great! Big improvement... I like it a lot.

 

I agree, I like it. Looks sharp.

[+FunnyNose]

The colors remind me what is in my toilet.

 

Why fix something that isnt broken?

 

That background brown, totally, and te green, maybe after a few too many beer.

 

You can change the cache page background color to the green again by setting a background image.

http://coord.info/GC1YRR4

[+Frank Broughton]

The colors remind me what is in my toilet.

 

Why fix something that isnt broken?

 

Still spewing stuff from your toilet on the forums eh? I should send you the sign I have hanging next to my desk... and I being nice about this, it says, Lord, if I have nothing good to say, please help me keep my big mouth shut.

 

I came back to the forums to looksie around and I hear the same smelly sock opinion of the crusty rusty grumpy gang.... ain't ya ll got anything better to do that tear this place down day after day?

 

Please...............

[+SwineFlew]

The colors remind me what is in my toilet.

 

Why fix something that isnt broken?

 

Still spewing stuff from your toilet on the forums eh? I should send you the sign I have hanging next to my desk... and I being nice about this, it says, Lord, if I have nothing good to say, please help me keep my big mouth shut.

 

I came back to the forums to looksie around and I hear the same smelly sock opinion of the crusty rusty grumpy gang.... ain't ya ll got anything better to do that tear this place down day after day?

 

Please...............

Welcome back...Just dont blow yourself up.

[+Kacher82]

The colors remind me what is in my toilet.

 

Why fix something that isnt broken?

 

That background brown, totally, and te green, maybe after a few too many beer.

I don't see a brown background. The whole screen is brown while the page is loading, but then it goes to a white background, like it's always been.

[Keystone]

Let's stick to opinions about the website design changes and keep personal difference in PM's, email or elsewhere.

[+SwineFlew]

The colors remind me what is in my toilet.

 

Why fix something that isnt broken?

 

That background brown, totally, and te green, maybe after a few too many beer.

I don't see a brown background. The whole screen is brown while the page is loading, but then it goes to a white background, like it's always been.

But the page is taking a dump before it goes back to normal.

[+Kacher82]

It is rather interesting, though, that they have the resources to make cosmetic changes like this, but not enough to implement the things we've asked for.

[+The_Incredibles_]

The colors remind me what is in my toilet.

 

Why fix something that isnt broken?

 

Lord, if I have nothing good to say, please help me keep my big mouth shut.

 

Yes, please do.

 

If you're not able to do that, feel free to visit us at our sister site, www.geogoats.com.

Edited August 2, 2013 by The_Incredibles_

[+K13]

I love the way it shows for me. A big white area, like over 3/4 of the page!

 

It even has the big white area when I log out and go back to the site!

 

I guess this is the better mistake for the August Sweeps?

[+Paul n Susan]

I like it when the sites I visit often mix it up a little bit. The homepage should change every day in August! But I miss the scrolling finds and did-not-finds across the bottom, because I NEVER SAW MY NAME THERE.

[+Roman!]

The colors remind me what is in my toilet.

 

Why fix something that isnt broken?

 

That background brown, totally, and te green, maybe after a few too many beer.

I don't see a brown background. The whole screen is brown while the page is loading, but then it goes to a white background, like it's always been.

 

Go to Trackables Inventory or Trackables Collection or any page that is shorter and you'll see the brown.

 

I also just noticed a white squirrel sitting on top of the brown stuff on those pages.

 

[+Don_J]

I personally like it but I already found a bug on it. I think they should create different themes every other month.

 

They broke all of the Greasemonkey scripts that actually make the site useful. For what. A brighter green with topo contours, and big roided out goats on the home page?

 

Sooooooooooooooooooo many useful things that are repeatedly suggested in the Feature Request forum that we will never see because this is what they spend their time on.

[jholly]

I personally like it but I already found a bug on it. I think they should create different themes every other month.

 

They broke all of the Greasemonkey scripts that actually make the site useful. For what. A brighter green with topo contours, and big roided out goats on the home page?

 

Sooooooooooooooooooo many useful things that are repeatedly suggested in the Feature Request forum that we will never see because this is what they spend their time on.

When you develop a site and someone else makes greasemonkey scripts to make it work better, you feel powerless.

When you feel powerless you look for ways to get the power back.

When you want to take the power back you take programming lessons.

When you learn programming you want to use your programming.

You become the programmer of happiness.

When you become the programmer of happiness, you start to reprogram the website.

When you reprogram the website you break all the greasemonkey scrips. You feel the power.

When you break the greasemonkey scripts your users are upset.

When your users are upset you know you have the power and you are happy.

[+CdAGeoGeeks]

I personally like it but I already found a bug on it. I think they should create different themes every other month.

 

They broke all of the Greasemonkey scripts that actually make the site useful. For what. A brighter green with topo contours, and big roided out goats on the home page?

 

Sooooooooooooooooooo many useful things that are repeatedly suggested in the Feature Request forum that we will never see because this is what they spend their time on.

 

If you don't like it, then don't pay the $30 annual premium member fee and don't purchase any merchandise from the site or buy anything with a trackable code. Hit them in the pocketbook, otherwise you are supporting the site and supporting the changes that you dislike.

[+redants]

The colors remind me what is in my toilet.

 

Why fix something that isnt broken?

 

That background brown, totally, and te green, maybe after a few too many beer.

I liked the old loading screen. That green was nice. Now there is a brown murk. []

[+The A-Team]

If you don't like it, then don't pay the $30 annual premium member fee and don't purchase any merchandise from the site or buy anything with a trackable code. Hit them in the pocketbook, otherwise you are supporting the site and supporting the changes that you dislike.

I don't think that would work. Even if a whole bunch of users bailed and didn't renew their premium memberships, it would simply spur Groundspeak to look for even more ways to draw in new users at all costs, in turn driving more long-time cachers away, lather, rinse, repeat...

 

Face it, they just don't care about us anymore or whether we hang around and renew our premiums. All that matters is drawing in new users. That being said, I can't figure out how making the front page less new-user-friendly works toward that goal...

[jholly]

The colors remind me what is in my toilet.

 

Why fix something that isnt broken?

 

That background brown, totally, and te green, maybe after a few too many beer.

I liked the old loading screen. That green was nice. Now there is a brown murk. []

I was thinking the brown was not a murk but something else. Too bad the squirrel is not blue. OMG, I got the new front page.

 

I hope prime can fix his gm scripts real soon. They made the site useable.

Edited August 2, 2013 by jholly

[+The_Incredibles_]

 

If you don't like it, then don't pay the $30 annual premium member fee and don't purchase any merchandise from the site or buy anything with a trackable code. Hit them in the pocketbook, otherwise you are supporting the site and supporting the changes that you dislike.

 

I've thought of that, but I'd die without pocket queries.

[+bulcacher]

I kind of like it.