+NYPaddleCacher Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 (edited) I just read a couple of posts in the Getting Started forum about a couple of geocachers that discovered that they had been awarded a new souvenir. The thing is, the souvenir appears to be for Delaware State and one of the cachers has never been to Delaware. When they clicked on the icon to find out more they got the "You have entered an incorrect value in the querystring" error message. Seems like there are still a few kinks in the system. Edited to add... On a hunch, as I'm sitting here in front of my computer in Ithaca, NY I fired up the Groundspeak app on my iPhone and not only was awarded the Delaware State souvenir but also one for Baden-Wurttemburg. Both show up on my iPhone but only the Delaware State one shows up in my profile. I've actually found a cache in Delaware, and I did the virtual in the Frankfurt airport (no idea how far that is from Baden-Wuurttemburg). The artwork for the one for Baden-Wurttemburg is really nice. Edited November 9, 2010 by NYPaddleCacher Link to comment
+JL_HSTRE Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 I just read a couple of posts in the Getting Started forum about a couple of geocachers that discovered that they had been awarded a new souvenir. The thing is, the souvenir appears to be for Delaware State and one of the cachers has never been to Delaware. When they clicked on the icon to find out more they got the "You have entered an incorrect value in the querystring" error message. Seems like there are still a few kinks in the system. I just logged a cache I found today in Florida (I have only ever found caches in Florida) and got the Delaware souvenir as well. Whoops. Thank goodness there is an update tomorrow! Link to comment
+addisonbr Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 I just loaded up the iPhone app and was awarded Delaware and Baden-Wurttemburg. Woo-hoo! Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Goor reason to avoid ever getting an IPhone! (Whatever that is.) Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted November 9, 2010 Author Share Posted November 9, 2010 I just loaded up the iPhone app and was awarded Delaware and Baden-Wurttemburg. Woo-hoo! The artwork for the Baden-Wurttemburg is really nice. However, I can only see if it (and the artwork for the Delaware State one) if I click on the images in the saved section in the iPhone geocaching app. Clicking on the images in my profile produces an error message. Link to comment
+dfx Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=263426 Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Well, I still only have 10-10-10 despite not finding a cache on that day, and logging three of them about 11:00 AM EST on the 11th. I want my friggin' Rhode Island Souvie, where is it? Link to comment
+ZeLonewolf Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 (edited) My girlfriend was just logging a cache when she got the Delaware souvenir. We each have one find in Delaware, from quite some time ago. So not to be outdone, I whip out my Droid and do a search....when, what do you know, I too got the Delaware souvi, AND the Baden-Wurttemburg one! (We've definitely never cached in Baden-Wurttemburg -- unless the infamous "Four Windows" cache counts) Edit: they don't appear in my profile. Edited November 9, 2010 by ZeLonewolf Link to comment
+hazumu Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 My girlfriend was just logging a cache when she got the Delaware souvenir. We each have one find in Delaware, from quite some time ago. So not to be outdone, I whip out my Droid and do a search....when, what do you know, I too got the Delaware souvi, AND the Baden-Wurttemburg one! (We've definitely never cached in Baden-Wurttemburg -- unless the infamous "Four Windows" cache counts) Edit: they don't appear in my profile. same here but I have never cached outside the UK where have they come from. I gained them whist using the Groundspeak app on a HTC. Does that give any one more of a clue Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted November 9, 2010 Author Share Posted November 9, 2010 My girlfriend was just logging a cache when she got the Delaware souvenir. We each have one find in Delaware, from quite some time ago. So not to be outdone, I whip out my Droid and do a search....when, what do you know, I too got the Delaware souvi, AND the Baden-Wurttemburg one! (We've definitely never cached in Baden-Wurttemburg -- unless the infamous "Four Windows" cache counts) Edit: they don't appear in my profile. same here but I have never cached outside the UK where have they come from. I gained them whist using the Groundspeak app on a HTC. Does that give any one more of a clue There was a message earlier from one of the lackeys that there was a bug in the system which resulted in the awarding of the two souvenirs. He also claimed that it was fixed. It appears that logging a cache online could result in the awarding of the icons and the use of the official geocaching app awarded the souvenirs as well. Just after the notice that they discovered the bug the souvenirs disappeared from my profile. A subsequent search using the geocaching app brought them back. I suspect that it might be fixed when a cache is logged but as of late last night the mobile app would still produce the icons. So it doesn't appear the the bug was completely fixed when the lackey posted that it was. There are other issues such as the link to the full artwork not working from the profile page but can be seen through the mobile app. This leads me to wonder if Groundspeak has a testing environment when things like this just show up on the production site. As a software developer for enterprise scale web applications I do all my development on one machine that sits on my desk (actually a laptop) working out of a source code repository. Once I've tested my code locally it's committed to the repository then checked out to a test instance of the server which contains a mostly complete copy of the production server. That allows others to review my changes before exposing it to the general public. Once it's been looked at by others the code is checked out from the repository onto the production machine. That way our end users hopefully don't see any bugs that might have been introduced when the site has changed. As an aside, I see that a schedule maintenance is going to occur at 11:00AM or so today. I'm wondering if the maintenance is going to include updates related to the souvenir feature. I also wonder why GS doesn't post something somewhere *before* the maintenance is done to give us an idea about what we might expect. I know there are some that are not interested in souvenirs at all, to the point that they'd rather not even see the souvenir tab in their profile. A pre-maintenance announcement would allow those to put something in place to hide that tab (someone else posted a single line that could be added using Adblock Plus that'll that). GS seems to like to surprise us with new features, but as history has shown some of those surprises are like getting surprised that one isn't going to get back as much from a tax refund as expected. Link to comment
+ElliPirelli Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 I heard from several cachers in Germany, who logged a cache, that they've been awarded Delaware and Baden Württemberg, (which also contains a spelling error, it's -berg not -burg). They haven't been in either state, I might add. One logged a cache in Hamburg, one in Mecklenburg Vorpommern and one in Bavaria. I just hope, the update will clear this matter. Link to comment
+Alabama Alan Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 I picked them both up this morning when logging a cache found in Alabama. Since I could see no obvious connection, I came to the forums to learn about souvenirs in general. Mine was strictly an online log since I have no apps on my phone. I suspect I'll lose them with today's maintenance. Link to comment
+addisonbr Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Delaware and Baden-Württemburg (sic) no longer appear in my souvenir tab on the web. On my iPhone, I am seeing 10/10/10, Delaware and Baden-Württemburg. DE and B-W seem to have been deleted from one place (web) but not the other (phone). The only souvenirs I've ever been able to see on my iPhone have been the ones that were activated by turning on the geocaching app - 10/10/10 and DE / B-W. I've never seen the other souvenirs on my iPhone, the ones that I received retroactively (Lost & Found, HQ, APE, GW8). Those do appear on the web though. Link to comment
+Castle Mischief Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 A software bug that has no affect on me getting my PQs, me logging finds or me (heaven forbid) posting on the forums. Worse things have happened. Link to comment
+DragonsWest Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 They be my Delaware State & Baden-Württemburg souvenirs ~ I earnt them! Link to comment
+Keturah Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Ah, I was just coming on here to check about that, husband and I just logged a find near home today (in Wales) and got the Delaware and Baden-Württemburg souvenirs. Didn't think that seemed right Link to comment
+theshows Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 I just got them today too:) I was using the web browser on my phone to log my finds:) Never been to Delaware or Germany:) Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted November 9, 2010 Author Share Posted November 9, 2010 Delaware and Baden-Württemburg (sic) no longer appear in my souvenir tab on the web. On my iPhone, I am seeing 10/10/10, Delaware and Baden-Württemburg. DE and B-W seem to have been deleted from one place (web) but not the other (phone). I'm don't know the details on how the iPhone app works but I suspect that the icons/artwork are pulled from the server and now live on your phone in the "Saved" area. I doubt that they could be deleted without a sync of the application. The Delaware and B-W souvenirs went away in my profile for awhile last night but I got them back when I did another search using the iPhone app. The only souvenirs I've ever been able to see on my iPhone have been the ones that were activated by turning on the geocaching app - 10/10/10 and DE / B-W. I've never seen the other souvenirs on my iPhone, the ones that I received retroactively (Lost & Found, HQ, APE, GW8). Those do appear on the web though. I wasn't aware that the retroactive souvenirs didn't appear in the mobile apps. Seem like that's a problem as well. Someone else mentioned a thread having the "most" souvenirs (I'm guessing in his area). As far as I can tell, Moun10Bike seems to have more than any I've seen, including one called "Marination". There is very little information on the souvenir page about it so I'm guessing it's some sort of test souvenir. One of the features that I think would be interesting on the web version of the souvenir page would be somethings like: "129 other Geocachers have found this souvenir." Seems like something that would be really easy to add and could provide information about the relative rarity of some of the souvenirs awarded. Link to comment
+JoLTeam Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 I've logged several caches in Baden-Württemberg and I didn't get the souvenir. Link to comment
+Kev the Orienteer Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 I've only logged caches in Australia and New Zealand and was last in the US in about 1996ish. Surprised to see that I've got the "Groundspeak Headquarters" souvenir!! However, I have used my iPod touch once or twice to log a find... Link to comment
+mtn-man Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 In an older active topic, they are talking about a work to fix it in progress. Read down the page... http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...61886&st=50 Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted November 10, 2010 Author Share Posted November 10, 2010 In an older active topic, they are talking about a work to fix it in progress. Read down the page... http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...61886&st=50 Since this issue has been resolved would a mod please close this thread. Link to comment
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