nykkole Posted June 14, 2021 Posted June 14, 2021 With this feature, you can view your friends list from your profile. If you want to add more friends to your friends list, you can do so from your friends page on Geocaching.com. HQ will not actively participate in this thread, but will review it for feedback to assess if a feature should be further developed. Any posts in this thread should relate to features in this release. Comments unrelated to the release may be removed. Please direct unrelated comments to other appropriate threads. Thanks!
+Ingabo Posted June 15, 2021 Posted June 15, 2021 OK, it doesn't hurt but it does not bring anything special to me either. I know who is and who is not on my friends list anyway. 1
+CanUSeeIT Posted June 15, 2021 Posted June 15, 2021 Seems incomplete to show the list but not be able to add to it from the app. Requiring the user to go to the website to take the next logical step (adding a friend) is not an ideal user experience. 1 2
+JPS1985 Posted June 15, 2021 Posted June 15, 2021 I don't see that it adds anything to the geocaching experience. 1
+cerberus1 Posted June 15, 2021 Posted June 15, 2021 My last "friend" in the list even asked why he was still there, so removed him too. We all know who our friends are. A few promotions ago I received multiple requests that I be a "friend" in it. I never heard of these people before. Other countries even. Guess the hobby's idea of friends is a lot different than mine... 2
+_law_ Posted June 16, 2021 Posted June 16, 2021 I think there is limit of 50 displayed friends in the app, but I have 60 friends displayed on the website.
+CAPTAINVALPO96 Posted June 16, 2021 Posted June 16, 2021 I am a fairly new cacher, but am really into this and know almost everything. For this, I think GCHQ should make a link to your friend’s accounts straight from there. Otherwise, I use the website for everything except navigating to caches.
+GeoElmo6000 Posted June 16, 2021 Posted June 16, 2021 Does anyone use the geocaching friends list for anything? There was pressure to add friends years ago based on some promotion that involved points and such, but I couldn't tell you who is or isn't on my friends list. My friends list is on my phone in my Contacts app. 2 1
+cerberus1 Posted June 17, 2021 Posted June 17, 2021 9 hours ago, GeoElmo6000 said: My friends list is on my phone in my Contacts app. Yep. When many finally had phones, phone-a-friend really took off. We have a lot on contacts. The other 2/3rds was the only one to use them, chat mostly, sometimes giving hints on our (now gone) caches, and though no longer caching for a while, still plays online games with them. I save them for emergency JIC I'm injured, knowing they're nearby. My phones usually off when I'm in the woods. One time I was literally at the end of my rope, and a call saved my can. I've done it for others as well.. 1
+mustakorppi Posted June 17, 2021 Posted June 17, 2021 Commentary on the feature as implemented The friend list links to each friend's profile page, but there no useful information on the profile page in the app. I think that's the biggest problem with this. Suggested change would be to either vastly improve the in-app profile page for other players, or add a link to the profile page on the website. Alternative take on friends list A friend list on the app could act as a phone quickdial; that is, it seems like going through the friend list would be a fast way to start sending a message to a person I'm most likely to want to talk to. With that use case in mind, maybe friend list would work as part of the Messages page instead? That being said: I have real life contact info for almost everyone on my friends list, and I'm much more likely to use that. If I want help with a specific cache from someone for whom I have no other contact info, I would instead go to Activity --> (logs by) friends --> friend's profile --> send message Alternative take on friends feature in the app I believe the "main" intended use of the Friend feature is to have your friends' logs show up on your Dashboard's Activity feed. So implementing this Activity feed in the app seems like the logical place to start bringing the Friends feature to the app. 1
+Geokid12 Posted June 18, 2021 Posted June 18, 2021 On 6/16/2021 at 1:46 PM, GeoElmo6000 said: Does anyone use the geocaching friends list for anything? Adding friends makes it easier to see who of your friends has found a cache you are actively looking for in the event you are wanting to see who you can PAF or see their log notes. The list itself though at least on the app isn't very useful in its current implementation. 2 1
+JoshoForShort Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 Friends list only shows basic profile information of friends, cant click in to see what they’ve found. Apart from that, great feature. Once this is fully released, would love to have more visibility of caches found by Friends when viewing their profiles in the app
+GeoElmo6000 Posted May 25, 2022 Posted May 25, 2022 On 2/21/2022 at 6:49 PM, JoshoForShort said: Friends list only shows basic profile information of friends, cant click in to see what they’ve found. Apart from that, great feature. Once this is fully released, would love to have more visibility of caches found by Friends when viewing their profiles in the app What would be really cool is a feature that lets you see caches that you and a friend / multiple friends (friend being defined as being on the geocaching friend list) have either both found or neither has found. It'd help to plan out a geo-adventure. 1
nykkole Posted June 14, 2022 Author Posted June 14, 2022 This feature is now being expanded and this thread is being closed. Read more about the friends feature in this thread.
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