lost latitude Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 First of all, I know HOW to change my username. The questions I have deal with AFTER I have changed it. I hope someone can help. Thanks. Al Q #1 If I change my user name, how do I get my cache count with my old user name to follow me to my new name. Q #2 Once I change my user name, will log entries I have made on line automatically change the username in the entries, or must I go back and edit these individually? Quote Link to comment
+Team DEMP Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 I did this two weeks ago. Everything switched. Might not refresh the caches for the old logs immediately, but they will. Cache's found counts came over immediately. Quote Link to comment
+Polgara Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 I changed my geo name after finding about 25 caches. Everything switched on its own except caches that had been archived. It took a while, but they all changed. "The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the Creator." - Louis Pasteur Quote Link to comment
Swagger Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 This is just an educated guess - I don't have anything to do with the programming of the GC site... Your actual userid on the GC site is a unique (probably numeric) ID that you never see. When you change your username, you're just changing an attribute that's associated with that "private" ID. Other attributes would be your forum signature, the picture you choose to display on your profile, your password, etc. Changing your username doesn't change your identity as far as the back-end of the GC site goes. Your finds, forum posts, etc. remain associated with your account. I could be wrong about the forum posts since they use Infopop, but on the GC site, I'm sure that's how it goes. The reason the logs on the cache pages don't update instantly is because each page is generated only when a log entry is made. If nobody creates a log entry, the username won't update (hence the archived caches not updating). This is the same reason that your find count doesn't update instantly on your previous logs when you log another find. -- Pehmva! Random quote: Quote Link to comment
Swagger Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 Follow up: Yep, unique numeric ID. Take a look at the URL for my profile: http://www.geocaching.com/profile/default.aspx?A=12056 Notice the "A=12056" at the end? 12056 is my unique ID number. I'm guessing that I'm the 12,056th registered account on the site. #s 2 and 3 are two of Jeremy's accounts. http://www.geocaching.com/profile/default.aspx?A=2 http://www.geocaching.com/profile/default.aspx?A=3 <another follow-up> The highest number at the moment is 159759. That's a lot of accounts. It looks like they're getting a thousand or so new accounts about every three days. That's pretty rapid growth. Let's hope that a good percentage of them subscribe. -- Pehmva! Random quote: Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 Check your old logs made under your old name. They may not of changed. In the days of old this part was not automatic. They would still be listed as what you found but the name would not have changed. Quote Link to comment
+Zahrim Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Cruzin!:Follow up: Yep, unique numeric ID. Take a look at the URL for my profile: http://www.geocaching.com/profile/default.aspx?A=12056 Notice the "A=12056" at the end? 12056 is my unique ID number. I'm guessing that I'm the 12,056th registered account on the site. #s 2 and 3 are two of Jeremy's accounts. http://www.geocaching.com/profile/default.aspx?A=2 http://www.geocaching.com/profile/default.aspx?A=3 <another follow-up> The highest number at the moment is 159759. That's a lot of accounts. It looks like they're getting a thousand or so new accounts about every three days. That's pretty rapid growth. Let's hope that a good percentage of them subscribe. -- Pehmva! Random quote: http://sthomas.net/sigimage.php Yes, accounts 2 and 3 are Jeremy's. There is no account 1, and just where did you get the number 1000 every 3 days? That is a big leap... Hmm... let's look at the numbers for a minute. The oldest cache is GC4. It's oldest log is dated 27 Aug 2000. Today is 15 Sep 2003. That makes 1114 days between then and now. There are at this moment 159759 users listed online right now.... Hmmmm.... That makes 143.41 new cachers a day on average.... AND, let me see... I think that 143.41*3 is no where near 1000 new accounts. At best the average = 430.23. Care to try again with your wild assumptions? Zahrim.... "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently." Quote Link to comment
Swagger Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Zahrim:Yes, accounts 2 and 3 are Jeremy's. There is no account 1, and just where did you get the number 1000 every 3 days? That is a big leap... Hmm... let's look at the numbers for a minute. The oldest cache is GC4. It's oldest log is dated 27 Aug 2000. Today is 15 Sep 2003. That makes 1114 days between then and now. There are at this moment 159759 users listed online right now.... Hmmmm.... That makes 143.41 new cachers a day on average.... AND, let me see... I think that 143.41*3 is no where near 1000 new accounts. At best the average = 430.23. Care to try again with your wild assumptions? Well, aren't we the math wizard? I never mentioned averages. Considering the fact that the growth the activity has experienced has been rather non-linear, using the average growth to predict future growth would be pretty silly. I was using current data. Specifically, I was using the time during which the last several thousand accounts were registered. I'll make it nice and easy for you, since you weren't thorough enough to do your own research before publicly firing off your flame. UserID User Name Member Since---------------------------------150000 terrabug 8/11/03151000 notzathros1 8/15/03152000 Teal-J 8/19/03153000 rabsters 8/22/03154000 jake490 8/25/03155000 skywalker1993 8/29/03156000 julan 9/01/03157000 life 9/05/03158000 the skippy's 9/08/03159000 anthjbell 9/12/03159778 TokyoBlossom 9/14/03 Maybe next time you'll consider that perhaps the person you're about to insult in fact does know what they were talking about, and that you're the one who's missing something. -- Pehmva! Random quote: Quote Link to comment
Team Titus213 Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 Cruzin!, Kudos for a 'measured response'. I wish I had your control..... ___________________________________ All weal drive, the only way to go! Quote Link to comment
SLCDave Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 ouch "I'm 35 Years old, I am divorced, and I live in van down by the river!" - Matt Foley Quote Link to comment
ChiefPig Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 Hehe...definitely an OUCH! I guess your assumptions weren't so "wild" after all...LOL! Nice job. Quote Link to comment
lost latitude Posted September 15, 2003 Author Share Posted September 15, 2003 Thanks for all the help.. I guess I got a bit more info than I actually needed, But part of this sport is to be amused isn't it, to have fun with it? Well, I'm having a great time geocaching. What do they say... Amused easily, and easily amused. It works for me. Anyway, thanks for the posts to my initial query. I have everything worked out. lost latitude Quote Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 quote:Thanks for all the help.. I guess I got a bit more info than I actually needed, But part of this sport is to be amused isn't it, to have fun with it? Well, I'm having a great time geocaching. No. Having fun is not allowed. We'll be keeping an eye on you. "Don't mess with a geocacher. We know all the best places to hide a body." Quote Link to comment
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