+Original A1 Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 I like hands. I have two of my own and they come in very useful when pressing buttons on the GPS (well bits of screen) or gripping a pen or unscrewing a cache lid. They help me to grip my Leki poles which in turn help me to balance when out caching. They help me to tie my shoelaces. They help me to drive my car to get to some of the caches. They help me in changing the batteries on my GPS. They get stung, scratched, lacerated and in so doing remind me that my nervous system is still working. I'm especially grateful to have my two because I know of people who don't have the full complement of ten digits. I'm slightly (ok, make that a lot) less grateful to have a hovering hand over my caching map. When I first started caching, life was good. The hand would hover until I reached an icon, then it would fix on that icon and tell me what cache it related to. Click and the information would reveal itself and all being well, I'd load it onto my GPS (before I became a premium member and did PQs), repeat the exercise many times and off I'd go. Every now and then, the hand wouldn't morph into information. It remained a hovering hand. It is doing this right now, and it did it earlier this evening. In between times, it behaved itself. Currently, however, it is the mysterious misbehaving hovering right hand. Right hands are also good for shaking to say "How do you do?" My question is how to shake it to say "How do you don't?" Quote Link to comment
+ivorybilledbirder Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 I like hands. I have two of my own and they come in very useful when pressing buttons on the GPS (well bits of screen) or gripping a pen or unscrewing a cache lid. They help me to grip my Leki poles which in turn help me to balance when out caching. They help me to tie my shoelaces. They help me to drive my car to get to some of the caches. They help me in changing the batteries on my GPS. They get stung, scratched, lacerated and in so doing remind me that my nervous system is still working. I'm especially grateful to have my two because I know of people who don't have the full complement of ten digits. I'm slightly (ok, make that a lot) less grateful to have a hovering hand over my caching map. When I first started caching, life was good. The hand would hover until I reached an icon, then it would fix on that icon and tell me what cache it related to. Click and the information would reveal itself and all being well, I'd load it onto my GPS (before I became a premium member and did PQs), repeat the exercise many times and off I'd go. Every now and then, the hand wouldn't morph into information. It remained a hovering hand. It is doing this right now, and it did it earlier this evening. In between times, it behaved itself. Currently, however, it is the mysterious misbehaving hovering right hand. Right hands are also good for shaking to say "How do you do?" My question is how to shake it to say "How do you don't?" It's just started happening on my map, too. Might be a bug in the website. My suggestion is, tell TPTB to use their hands and squash it. Quote Link to comment
+Mitragorz Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 This happens to me now and again. The hovering hand sometimes doesn't turn into a "pointy-finger hand" when brought over a cache icon on the map. It works correctly after refreshing the page. It's been happening to me for years now. Quote Link to comment
+Original A1 Posted July 11, 2015 Author Share Posted July 11, 2015 Oh the refresh button gets used lots. So do the stop and start again buttons. Of course, having posted last night, all worked just fine and dandy again... till the next time, of course. (Who are TPTB?) Quote Link to comment
+Just Roger Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 (Who are TPTB?) The Powers That Be - aka, That Mob in Seattle Quote Link to comment
+L8HNB Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Been happening with me for ages, just thought it was dodgy GS software or my slow internet. Its a real PITA! (Pain In The Donkey ) Quote Link to comment
+Shanghai Joe Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 This happened to me recently, after trying different things I saw that my Geocaching Map Enhancement (GME) extension for Chrome was not at the latest revision level. I tried to update but for some reason it wouldn't work so then I first disabled and then deleted GME and downloaded the latest version. Now my hand behave itself properly. Quote Link to comment
+Original A1 Posted November 20, 2015 Author Share Posted November 20, 2015 It's happening again. Last night and today. How the hell am I supposed to plan my caching if I can't even see what the caches contain? :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: Quote Link to comment
+and1969 Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Had this problem on Friday. It is definitely not browser dependent and also another cacher - on the below-mentioned forum - pointed out it has nothing to do with Flash because the maps are purely Javascript based. By Sunday it was OK again. There is a discussion on the Bug Reports -> Website forum. The conclusion was that it might be due to load balancing - the GC.com website uses several web servers, and one of them might have gone awry. That said I have always had trouble using my Android tablet and if I get an email notification of a new cache and I only have the tablet I find it easier to use coord.info/ + the GC code. Quote Link to comment
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