Notification "There are new adventures near you" should be customizable

[+Hofmannsthal-Gang]

I often get the notification "There are new adventures near you", although there are no new adventure lab caches really near to me.

What ist the distance threshold for these notifications and how can I change (customize) it?

[+Lynx Humble]

26 minutes ago, Hofmannsthal-Gang said:

I often get the notification "There are new adventures near you", although there are no new adventure lab caches really near to me.

What ist the distance threshold for these notifications and how can I change (customize) it?

Unknown Groundspeak never gave an official answer.

[Keystone]

I moved this thread to the proper forum section, as it relates to the Adventures app rather than the Geocaching app.

[+Max and 99]

30 minutes ago, Hofmannsthal-Gang said:

I often get the notification "There are new adventures near you", although there are no new adventure lab caches really near to me.

What ist the distance threshold for these notifications and how can I change (customize) it?

I found the opposite to be true in my experience. I only get a notification if it's close, like 10 miles. But 20 miles seems to be outside the notification range. We're still trying to figure out what it is! 

[+sernikk]

16 minutes ago, Max and 99 said:

I found the opposite to be true in my experience. I only get a notification if it's close, like 10 miles. But 20 miles seems to be outside the notification range. We're still trying to figure out what it is! 

 

I have the same problem. Recently I didn't get any notification at all about ~3 new ALs, which are clearly <20km from me so...

 

[+Max and 99]

4 minutes ago, sernikk said:

 

I have the same problem. Recently I didn't get any notification at all about ~3 new ALs, which are clearly <20km from me so...

 

But your app is set to notify you, correct? You've gotten other notifications on the app? Just trying to clarify.

[+sernikk]

Just now, Max and 99 said:

But your app is set to notify you, correct? You've gotten other notifications on the app? Just trying to clarify.

Yes, I had notifications of new ALs before.

[+Max and 99]

18 minutes ago, sernikk said:

 

I have the same problem. Recently I didn't get any notification at all about ~3 new ALs, which are clearly <20km from me so...

 

I'm expecting a few new ones in my area, so I'll keep a watch on the notifications and distances.

[+Lynx Humble]

17 minutes ago, sernikk said:

Yes, I had notifications of new ALs before.

Where you near your home when they got published? 

 

It's seems to use your current position when they are getting live.

[+sernikk]

1 hour ago, Lynx Humble said:

Where you near your home when they got published? 

 

It's seems to use your current position when they are getting live.

I was even closer than my home is

 

But maybe there were problems with my gps signal? Hard to tell right now.

Edited November 10, 2020 by sernikk

[+Hofmannsthal-Gang]

... and where can I post a change request to Groundspeak?

[+Max and 99]

3 hours ago, Hofmannsthal-Gang said:

... and where can I post a change request to Groundspeak?

Right here.

[+rragan]

On Facebook, AL group, the head of the AL team requested that feedback be sent via the Feedback mechanism built into the Adventure Lab app and that way it would get to the whole AL team.

[+Lynx Humble]

41 minutes ago, rragan said:

On Facebook, AL group, the head of the AL team requested that feedback be sent via the Feedback mechanism built into the Adventure Lab app and that way it would get to the whole AL team.

So this forum is useless and they don't care about it?

[+Max and 99]

50 minutes ago, rragan said:

On Facebook, AL group, the head of the AL team requested that feedback be sent via the Feedback mechanism built into the Adventure Lab app and that way it would get to the whole AL team.

I wouldn't even know where to begin on that. 

[+IceColdUK]

1 hour ago, Max and 99 said:

I wouldn't even know where to begin on that. 

[+Max and 99]

Thank you!

[+rragan]

I'm sure there are multiple channels of communication because not everyone is here or on Facebook, etc. Getting feedback from multiple channels has the best chance of hearing from a larger audience. 
 

I can understand directing Facebook users to use the app. Facebook has a way of making a post vanish after you have seen it once. Not easy to go back and look at it again 

[+ecanderson]

On 11/11/2020 at 12:51 PM, rragan said:

On Facebook, AL group, the head of the AL team requested that feedback be sent via the Feedback mechanism built into the Adventure Lab app and that way it would get to the whole AL team.

I guess one could ask what the hell they're doing over on Facebook.  Have NEVER seen (though yes, could have missed) notification here that FB is their preferred 'meeting place' vs. GCHQ's own forums.  What's the world coming to?

Appreciate the heads up on the 'Feedback mechanism' that is supposed to exist within the app, but I'm not seeing that option. 

 

 

[+IceColdUK]

5 hours ago, ecanderson said:

Appreciate the heads up on the 'Feedback mechanism' that is supposed to exist within the app, but I'm not seeing that option.

Screenshot for iPhone above.  Just checked Android, and it’s in the same place - click on ‘Profile’, bottom-right.  Are you seeing something different?

[+ecanderson]

Nope.  Just didn't spot it.  Didn't expect it there, I guess.  Thanks.

 

Just offered my complaint about yet ANOTHER app that author feels must run in background.  The only legitimate reason is for notifications, and I asked them to permit instead email notification of new ALs and NO background operation.