Anything we can do to retain color in our online logs?

[+RedhedMary]

I am wondering if there is anything that can be done to retain the color in online logs. Y'know, in the old coding, you could enter in [red] and your entire log would turn red. I've been writing red logs almost since I started geocaching, and the change to the new coding has changed them all back to good old boring black... One of the things I am known for in geocaching circles, well at least locally, is that all my logs were in red. Now, not only do all my logs start out bracket-red-bracket, I get a message every time I open one that I should get rid of the old coding. Does anybody at Groundspeak realize how long it would take to change almost 7000 logs?

 

I know overall the switch to the new coding was a positive one, I just wish that the ability to change color would have been retained.

Edited February 15, 2016 by redhedmary

[+niraD]

I know overall the switch to the new coding was a positive one,

I'm not convinced that markdown is really an improvement. At least with BBCode, you had to use it deliberately. With markdown, it's too easy to trigger formatting when you just wanted to enter plain text.

[+Path Pacer]

Can't say I'm a fan of formatted logs. My GPS shows the first few logs as part of the cache file, but any log that isn't plain text just reads as gobbledygook, which wouldn't matter except I go to the logs in the field sometimes when I get stuck.

 

Of course, just having [red] in there wouldn't be a big deal, but some people go to town with their formatting. I hate to have one of the few log files available to me "wasted" with something that's hard to read when I'm looking for help.

[+Corfman Clan]

If you want your logs green and centered, just block quote them (start each line with a > character).

[+Viajero Perdido]

I welcome the new lack of color in log text (other than frog green; I can live with that).

 

Who'd want to read a book with colored text?

 

We can still express our identity through a 48x48 pixel avatar, and of course through carefully chosen words.

 

Cache on!

[+narcissa]

Can't say I'm a fan of formatted logs. My GPS shows the first few logs as part of the cache file, but any log that isn't plain text just reads as gobbledygook, which wouldn't matter except I go to the logs in the field sometimes when I get stuck.

 

Of course, just having [red] in there wouldn't be a big deal, but some people go to town with their formatting. I hate to have one of the few log files available to me "wasted" with something that's hard to read when I'm looking for help.

 

Oh yeah, I've seen some logs that were just brutal to decipher because of someone's cutesy formatting.

[+J Grouchy]

Worst of all are the very long cut-and-paste logs that contain a million different smilies, spaced every five or six words.

I'm happy if it's no longer possible to alter the font typeface, size or color. Suits me fine...

[+NYPaddleCacher]

Worst of all are the very long cut-and-paste logs that contain a million different smilies, spaced every five or six words.

I'm happy if it's no longer possible to alter the font typeface, size or color. Suits me fine...

 

+1

 

Glad there isn't a markdown equivalent for the marquee tag.

 

 

 

[+RedhedMary]

I get that many people were never fans of colored, cutesy logs. I very seldom did anything but all the words in red with an occasional emoticon thrown in there. I'm looking for any possible solution to being able to log in red again...

 

And I do see where the Header 3 turns the log to green....now if my name was GreenhedMary, that would work. Right now everything is only in black, does that make me BlackhedMary?

[Pup Patrol]

I know there are a lot of Reviewer Notes that are now a mess because of the formatting change.

 

B.

[+Tassie_Boy]

 

And I do see where the Header 3 turns the log to green....now if my name was GreenhedMary, that would work. Right now everything is only in black, does that make me BlackhedMary?

 

Red heads look good in green if that counts at all ?

[Keystone]

I know there are a lot of Reviewer Notes that are now a mess because of the formatting change.

 

B.

The old ones, sure. But we had advance notice and spent our January updating reviewer form letter templates to remove colors (just to stay on topic), to fix hyperlinks to the listing guidelines, land manager policies, the Help Center, etc., and to make other changes in order to be markdown compliant.

 

My new reviewer notes are greatly simplified and look fabulous on the cache listing page. In email, not so much so.

 

To answer the OP squarely, there is no hidden markdown command that magically restores red or other color choices. The green header, mentioned above, is the only color option I'm aware of.

[cezanne]

to fix hyperlinks to the listing guidelines, land manager policies, the Help Center,

 

I'm confused or do you refer just to changes if a reviewer created hyperlinks by the command?

I used links in about every second log by just pasting them into the log and that worked fine not only until the change to Markdown but also in the first days after the change. Then this has been switched off without any notice. No all the links in old logs are useless.

If the reviewers were warned about hyperlinks in January, why were we told in the forum that hyperlinks would still work in text logs?

 

As the colors are concerned, I have not used colors myself, but I preferred them as an occasional means of turning attention to something like bold face - I also liked the old way of displaying links. Now the links are stressed too much and the blue appears where I do not want it to appear.

 

If the only thing the OP is concerned about is how the logs look to herself, she might consider using the script that someone wrote for some browsers. I would need to search for the post however and if it's not of interest to redhedmary then I would not invest the time. Redhedmary could also rename herself to bluehedmary and embed all her log into a link which is not really a link. Then the whole log is displayed in blue.

Edited February 22, 2016 by cezanne

[+RedhedMary]

Thanks Keystone and Cezanne for your "square" answers. I had hoped there would be some sort of work around. Cezanne, I was known for my red logs, so I really wanted them to show red to everyone so the script you mentioned probably won't work out. But thanks for offering.

[Keystone]

You're quite welcome, redhedmary. I used green a lot in my logs, consistent with my player account name, but not nearly as prominently and consistently as your completely red logs. I will still enjoy reading them regardless of their color. I am signed right underneath you in a whole bunch of logbooks across Northwest Ohio. You have good taste in caches!

[cezanne]

Cezanne, I was known for my red logs, so I really wanted them to show red to everyone so the script you mentioned probably won't work out.

 

Well that confirms what I had conjectured and why I waited with searching for the script. A local cacher used to write his cacher name in red and he always signs with a red pen. While I have not used colors myself, I do not understand at all that they decided to take them away with any comvincing reason. Now a large number of cachers use the H3 for producing green signatures or green texts to have some color at all and the result looks much uglier than the old logs have looked like.

[+K13]

Green is the color of money....and most frogs.