+regoarrarr Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 After talking it over with Elias, it appears that the block of my IP was unintentional, and has since been removed. Unfortunately, we did lose about a week's worth of logs. Because of the way my site gets logs, there's really no good way to get those logs, short of individually putting them in via the Missing Logs page. So, you'll have to put in any caches you did over the past week by hand. We also did have some talks about the future and possible better interaction between sites like mine and the geocaching.com database, and they sound promising. So that's definitely good news as well. Finally, all this has given me a second wind of sorts to work on the stats page. The one thing that I think really needs to be added is some sort of automated way to change usernames. It currently takes about 2-3 minutes to do that. Of course that's not a big deal, but most of the time I can't really take the time out of whatever I'm doing to do that. I can't really make it fully automated, because of the following scenario - what if EvilJoeCacher comes in and enters into the form that his "old" username was BruceS. Then all of Bruce's logs get deleted and moved over to EvilJoeCacher's name. Unlikely, but definitely possible and definitely not a good thing. Anyone got any good suggestions? Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 If EvilJoeCacher really used to be BruceS doesn't BruseS dissapear as a member? (at least until someone else claims BruceS) Can you run a check for that? New name = member old name = doesn't exist? Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
+Marky Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 I would think it would have to work somewhat like the fixlog thing works. You put in your ID and it goes out and pulls your current name, then updates the database. This would assume that in the current database, there is a like between username and ID so it can match things up. --Marky "All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer with a backlit GPSr" Quote Link to comment
+Marky Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 Can we get the old page back up pretty please? --Marky "All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer with a backlit GPSr" Quote Link to comment
+regoarrarr Posted January 13, 2003 Author Share Posted January 13, 2003 Ah right - it was turned back on, but I forgot to take down that message. Fixed now Quote Link to comment
+alchemist2000 Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 Thank you, Dan, for all of your hard work....both in developing the site in the first place, then in resolving this problem. I love geocaching, but it is so much more enjoyable to follow the activity in my area by merely checking the log activity on your site!! Alchemist2000 Quote Link to comment
+Team Piggy Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 Good one Dan ! Yay, Stats stats !! And thanks to the guys from Geaocaching.com for helpin out on the prob.. (You gonna admit you forgot to pay your ISP bill or not Dan ? ).. TP. Quote Link to comment
+alchemist2000 Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 The sheer excitement of the site being back caused my brain to disconnet. [This message was edited by alchemist2000 on January 13, 2003 at 05:49 PM.] Quote Link to comment
+9Key Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 Hiya, I love the site too! Great work man! Have you thought about using Pocket Queries and just doing daily updates? The Pocket Queries are just XML files anyway, so there would be no need for a database. Just a thought! Will I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagited life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it. Byron Quote Link to comment
+Marky Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 I'm all caught up again. Not a big deal to do. All is right with the world again... --Marky "All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer with a backlit GPSr" Quote Link to comment
+crashmore Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 It's great to have the stats page back! Woohoo! Thanks for all your hard work Dan, your page is a great addition to the sport! ------------------------------------- Hope is the destination that we seek. Love is the road that leads to hope. Courage is the motor that drives us. We travel out of darkness into faith. -=The Book Of Counted Sorrows=- Quote Link to comment
+MikieP Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 Thanks to Dan, to Elias, and to my fellow cachers for letting Geocaching.com understand how important many of us feel the Stats Page is. Glad you could work it out, and even gladder that you are working together to improve our activity. Thanks to all one more time! Quote Link to comment
+Eswau Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 Could someone fill us newcomers in on the Stats Page? At least post the URL? Thanks- Eswau Quote Link to comment
+ZingerHead Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 Any way you could use geocaching.com's security to reduce the risk from EvilJoeCacher types? Can Jeremy & Co. provide you with an "old name --> new name" list? That way if anybody makes a name change request on your site you can check it against the geocaching.com records. If the request gibes with the geocaching data, then the change goes through. If it doesn't, the change is aborted and the cacher gets a message explaining why. Going one step further: when users change their user name on geocaching.com, could you get that data automatically, and switch the logs without any name change request at all? FWIW Quote Link to comment
+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 I've never been able to transfer my first 8 finds over to my newer name on the stats page. But that's ok. I do enjoy using it for the log page especially so I can see what caches have been hit in my area. Great fun. I hear voices.....and they don't like you! Quote Link to comment
+TeamJiffy Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 ...and have data files that contain essential information to compute stats... however, the IMDB data file format stinks, because it is stuck with the legacy of the full user interface being these files in the dim past, and therefore, the data files aren't really all that data processing friendy. ...examples of useful data files, to have a properly designed database... USERS: Two fields, username and User-ID (a number) ...this way, if a user changes names, the rest of the stuff follows to the new name nicely... CACHES: Cache Name (other stuff), including Cache-ID (a number), including Lat/Long in UTM format (things are much easier with this) FIND-TYPES: Text-description (such as "NoFind"), Find-Type-Index (a number) FINDS: A database of the following fields, one find per line: Cache-ID User-ID Time/Date of find ...this would allow you to compute no-finds that later become finds... If these databases were available, a nightly program could copy these to 'shadow servers' across the net, and then people could grab data from the shadow server This would really make the site usable by people designing software.. statistics, report caches along a highway, etc... And could make screen-scraping a thing of the past... Quote Link to comment
+Web-ling Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Eswau:Could someone fill us newcomers in on the Stats Page? At least post the URL? Thanks- Eswau Stats Page Quote Link to comment
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