+kennychange(kc+) Posted January 20, 2014 Posted January 20, 2014 Hi, Forgive if this has been covered but I haven't found anything - am I alone in thinking it would be great to have a DNF button that would start to mark those caches with another color so you could come back to them more easily or plan a route of them to clean up your map some? Love to hear your thoughts - or if I am missing something. Quote
+Gitchee-Gummee Posted January 20, 2014 Posted January 20, 2014 Hi, Forgive if this has been covered but I haven't found anything - am I alone in thinking it would be great to have a DNF button that would start to mark those caches with another color so you could come back to them more easily or plan a route of them to clean up your map some? Love to hear your thoughts - or if I am missing something. Suggested many times before. I don't know if they will ever implement that feature. Another way to think of it -- a DNF indicates that you didn't find it, so it remains simply as a Not Found cache. By that token, there really is nothing to change. Quote
+niraD Posted January 20, 2014 Posted January 20, 2014 FWIW, some people add their DNFed caches to a private DNF bookmark list, and then remove them from that bookmark list once they find the caches. Quote
+Walts Hunting Posted January 20, 2014 Posted January 20, 2014 I find an easier solution is to add my DNF;s to the Ignore list. There are to many caches around to worry about going back unless it was something special. Quote
+MinionBrigade Posted January 20, 2014 Posted January 20, 2014 I find an easier solution is to add my DNF;s to the Ignore list. There are to many caches around to worry about going back unless it was something special. Oh, my take on that is very different. Perhaps I'm OCD but I can't stand DNFs and will visit multiple times until I make the find; film canister or not! Quote
+The_Incredibles_ Posted January 22, 2014 Posted January 22, 2014 The app on my phone does this. Would be nice to have it on the geocaching.com website. Not sure why they don't implement it. Quote
+TheHarleyRebel Posted January 22, 2014 Posted January 22, 2014 You will have to make a separate list or just leave it as it is, but hopfully thety will mainly be finds anyway! Welcome To Geocaching anyway, hope you have fun! It is a very cool (and addicting) sport. Quote
+popokiiti Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 We put caches we have DNFd on the watchlist....that way we get notifications when other cachers attempt the cache and are successful (usually) or not (rarely.) Quote
+dprovan Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Forgive if this has been covered but I haven't found anything - am I alone in thinking it would be great to have a DNF button that would start to mark those caches with another color so you could come back to them more easily or plan a route of them to clean up your map some? DNFs to me are just caches I haven't found, just like any I've never looked for. When I need to clean up my map, the DNFs don't stand out to me as different than anything else I still need to find. I admit that a few thousand finds ago, I thought DNFs were special, too, but after a few more finds, they don't stand out to me anymore. Beside, I typically know which ones I've failed at before: I don't need a special icon to rub it in every time I look at the map. Quote
+kennychange(kc+) Posted February 16, 2014 Author Posted February 16, 2014 Thanks for the replies folks, Yeah, I gather you can just leave them open as yet to be found, but like some of you, the OCD part of me wants to bag them mofos! Just being able to flip a color assignment to DNF(RED), Targets you want to highlight say on a mission of going out (PINK or whatever), almost like a playlist... I love clearing out small patches at once or trying to remember stuff I need to come back at in the day or after snow... Forgive if this has been covered but I haven't found anything - am I alone in thinking it would be great to have a DNF button that would start to mark those caches with another color so you could come back to them more easily or plan a route of them to clean up your map some? DNFs to me are just caches I haven't found, just like any I've never looked for. When I need to clean up my map, the DNFs don't stand out to me as different than anything else I still need to find. I admit that a few thousand finds ago, I thought DNFs were special, too, but after a few more finds, they don't stand out to me anymore. Beside, I typically know which ones I've failed at before: I don't need a special icon to rub it in every time I look at the map. Quote
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 I'd prefer a different colour icon for a multi cache. On a cluttered section of the map it's sometimes easy to overlook an unfound one amongst a lot of nearby smileys. Quote
DannyCaffeine Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 Should be optional. It might make some people crazy but it could be helpful to others. Quote
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