Update to Release Notes (Website: Tech migrations) - October 22, 2024

[+Geocaching HQ]

With this release, we are introducing minor updates to the Search map on Geocaching.com.

 

The updated map will be rolled out gradually over the next four weeks. By November 18, all players will use the new Search map.

 

Updates and fixes include:

A new "Undo" button on the Filters pop-up allows players to undo any new filter changes back to the previous settings. This button appears after any filter is changed. Compare with the "Reset" button, which resets all filters back to their default settings.

The filter button no longer indicates that filters are applied when they are not.

When selecting geocaches for a list, the “Add to List” popup is now supported in the Safari browser, too.

 

 

Paul (AngryBees32), Web Product Owner, is watching this thread to answer questions whenever possible.

 

 

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!

[+hzoi]

On 10/22/2024 at 6:56 PM, Geocaching HQ said:

AngryBees32

 

Just a note to say I love this handle.

[+capoaira]

Today, I found a bug, on the new Map. When clicking on a cache at the map, the sidebar does not open. This is a very annoying behaviour. Please fix it.

[+janrei_]

Would it be possible to add an option in the filter dialog to search around the center of the map? I got used to the functionality with the old maps that I could just move it somewhere and perform a search there. Now I have to click the "Search this area" button first, which makes this a bit more cumbersome for me.

[AngryBeesy]

On 11/16/2024 at 7:15 AM, capoaira said:

Today, I found a bug, on the new Map. When clicking on a cache at the map, the sidebar does not open. This is a very annoying behaviour. Please fix it.

When you say the sidebar doesn't open, do you mean that when the sidebar is collapsed, and you click on a cache, you expect the sidebar to expand, but it doesn't?

[+igator210]

2 hours ago, AngryBeesy said:

When you say the sidebar doesn't open, do you mean that when the sidebar is collapsed, and you click on a cache, you expect the sidebar to expand, but it doesn't?

For me, the Browse Map works fine. In the Search Map, when I click on a cache icon, nothing happens. I can't open the cache details or anything. This is on PC, Chrome, Windows 10.

[+CAVinoGal]

5 hours ago, AngryBeesy said:

On 11/16/2024 at 7:15 AM, capoaira said:

Today, I found a bug, on the new Map. When clicking on a cache at the map, the sidebar does not open. This is a very annoying behaviour. Please fix it.

When you say the sidebar doesn't open, do you mean that when the sidebar is collapsed, and you click on a cache, you expect the sidebar to expand, but it doesn't?

 

3 hours ago, igator210 said:

For me, the Browse Map works fine. In the Search Map, when I click on a cache icon, nothing happens. I can't open the cache details or anything. This is on PC, Chrome, Windows 10.

 

In the Search map, when the sidebar is collapsed allowing a full screen view of the map, nothing happens if I click on a cache.  If the sidebar is open, however, I get the cache details and can click on the link to open the cache page.  I typically will have the sidebar open anyway, so it's all working as expected for me, in both Edge and Chrome on Windows 11.  Are you saying the sidebar used to open and show the cache details when it was initially closed?  I haven't used the Search map much as I prefer the Browse map.  

[AngryBeesy]

23 minutes ago, CAVinoGal said:

 

 

In the Search map, when the sidebar is collapsed allowing a full screen view of the map, nothing happens if I click on a cache.  If the sidebar is open, however, I get the cache details and can click on the link to open the cache page.  I typically will have the sidebar open anyway, so it's all working as expected for me, in both Edge and Chrome on Windows 11.  Are you saying the sidebar used to open and show the cache details when it was initially closed?  I haven't used the Search map much as I prefer the Browse map.  

That is correct. The sidebar used to open automatically when a cache was clicked. Our engineering team is working on a fix for that.

[+capoaira]

18 hours ago, AngryBeesy said:

When you say the sidebar doesn't open, do you mean that when the sidebar is collapsed, and you click on a cache, you expect the sidebar to expand, but it doesn't?

Exactly 

 

 

Edit: I see you are working on that. Thanks. 

Edited November 19 by capoaira

[AngryBeesy]

23 hours ago, igator210 said:

For me, the Browse Map works fine. In the Search Map, when I click on a cache icon, nothing happens. I can't open the cache details or anything. This is on PC, Chrome, Windows 10.

@igator210 I would like to confirm if the "open sidebar" fix we're working on will fix your problem as well. Or are you experiencing an additional problem not reported by the others?

[+barefootjeff]

Here's another Search Map oddity I've noticed over the last few days. When clicking on View Larger Map on a cache page, the map opens over a spot several kilometres away from the cache.

[+igator210]

16 hours ago, AngryBeesy said:

@igator210 I would like to confirm if the "open sidebar" fix we're working on will fix your problem as well. Or are you experiencing an additional problem not reported by the others?

My answer will depend slightly on how it is expected to work.

Currently, while working with the Search Map, if the side bar is open, when I click on a cache icon, the cache information is loaded into the sidebar. If the side bar is close, and I click on a cache on icon, nothing appears to happen, and I have to manually open the sidebar. Because the sidebar tab is white, and the Geocaching Map is pretty white, the tab to open the sidebar blends into the map. It isn't intuitive that I need to open the sidebar to retrieve the cache information. 

[+Die Batzen]

In Chrome, the scrollbar in the sidebar is missing.

In Firefox, the scrollbar is perfectly visible.

[+MartyBartfast]

2 hours ago, Die Batzen said:

In Chrome, the scrollbar in the sidebar is missing.

In Firefox, the scrollbar is perfectly visible.

Yep, I see the same.

[+janrei_]

I noticed two small localization issues with search results shown in the sidebar: event dates are formatted based on my language and status labels (e.g. "Disabled") are always in English. After clicking on an event, everything is correct (meaning that the "Placed on" date uses the format set in preferences and the status is translated).

 

[AngryBeesy]

On 11/18/2024 at 4:16 PM, AngryBeesy said:

That is correct. The sidebar used to open automatically when a cache was clicked. Our engineering team is working on a fix for that.

This issue has now been fixed.

[AngryBeesy]

On 11/19/2024 at 8:13 PM, barefootjeff said:

Here's another Search Map oddity I've noticed over the last few days. When clicking on View Larger Map on a cache page, the map opens over a spot several kilometres away from the cache.

This issue has now been fixed.

[+barefootjeff]

2 hours ago, AngryBeesy said:

On 11/20/2024 at 3:13 PM, barefootjeff said:

Here's another Search Map oddity I've noticed over the last few days. When clicking on View Larger Map on a cache page, the map opens over a spot several kilometres away from the cache.

This issue has now been fixed.

 

Thanks!

 

[AngryBeesy]

On 11/20/2024 at 7:31 AM, Die Batzen said:

In Chrome, the scrollbar in the sidebar is missing.

In Firefox, the scrollbar is perfectly visible.

We will be releasing a fix for this soon.

[AngryBeesy]

On 12/9/2024 at 9:44 AM, AngryBeesy said:

We will be releasing a fix for this soon.

This missing-scrollbar issue has now been fixed.

Edited Wednesday at 10:53 PM by AngryBeesy

[AngryBeesy]

On 11/20/2024 at 10:12 AM, janrei_ said:

I noticed two small localization issues with search results shown in the sidebar: event dates are formatted based on my language and status labels (e.g. "Disabled") are always in English. After clicking on an event, everything is correct (meaning that the "Placed on" date uses the format set in preferences and the status is translated).

 

Both of these localization issues have now been fixed. The status labels appear in your preferred language, and the dates follow your preference settings.

[+Die Batzen]

17 hours ago, AngryBeesy said:

This missing-scrollbar issue has now been fixed.

Confirmed, now it's working. Thanks for the fix!