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Geocaching.com site update September 15th 2011


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Howdy all - the release today will include some new functionality but mainly bugs fixes for both Geocaching.com and Challenges. The team has been hard at work and, as always, we appreciate all the feedback and input you have provided. Thank you everyone for their efforts!

 

New– Geocaching.com


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  • Add Paging to logs on Geocache Listings - Revamped the way logs are displayed on the Cache page. Added Tabs for viewing your logs; your friend’s logs or just all logs.

  • Created a step-by-step video highlighting the Caches Along a Route feature

  • Created DiveCaching page with information and links

  • Souvenir- MEGA Finland 2011: Retroactively awarded MEGA Finland souvenir

  • Updated find count on login widget to update quicker and more efficiently

New- Challenges


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  • Added the user name of the original poster when replying to a comment in Challenges

  • Removed reply/flag options except on user mouse over

  • Updated public profile tab so that total finds does not include completed challenges

  • Changed the display of Challenges you have published to include archived Challenges

  • Updated the comments of a Challenge to exclude “Accepted It” entries

  • Added educational text about what makes a good Challenge to details page

  • Updated personal list of challenges to include and display archived Challenges

  • Added link to Feedback site from Challenges creation page

Bug Fixes – Geocaching.com


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  • Cleaned up the avatar image sizing so it’s more consistent and efficient

  • Fixed a bug with some translations on the trackable details page.

  • Corrected a bug that prevented users from logging into Geocaching.com on latest version of Safari

  • Fixed bug to decrypt Cache details hint

  • Removed one confirmation (of two) when deleting a completion comment

  • Fixed display issue on cache details page without any images

  • Corrected format of entry date on cache submission form

  • Fixed bug that was improperly showing imperial/metric units in account settings

  • Corrected option on membership screen for Premium Members

  • Fixed display issues for Challenges on Internet Explorer

  • Removed extraneous text in LOC files delivered via PQ

  • Corrected bug in display of My Friends

  • Updated Czech state name

  • Fixed another bug displaying search results in Challenges for IE9

  • Updated Route Distance field to honor user preference

  • Corrected issue with cache gallery images linking back to cache page

  • Corrected issue with viewing logs

  • Replaced the “You Found this...” notation on Cache Details page, it was inadvertently removed.

  • Added sorting to completed challenges list on public profile

  • Corrected image display to not include text with image

  • Added new flag for Myanmar

  • Updated the list of activity in User profile to note Challenges and Benchmarks are not included in total finds

  • Updated the way avatar images are loaded to improve site performance

  • Added our new buildings address, removed older address

  • Updated Cache Details page gallery to include images from cache page

Bug Fixes – Challenges


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  • Fixed bug that prevented users with = in their username from marking a challenge as complete

  • Fixed a bug when a user tries to flag and unpublished challenge, the spinner would show indefinitely.

  • Updated locationless Challenges to remove the ability to add a goal.

  • Added confirmation check when deleting comments or replies

  • Updated the FAQ section of Challenges regarding find counts

  • Updated comments when a user is not logged in to remove the “reply” link

  • Updated display of search results in IE9 for Challenges

  • Corrected image of Challenges Home banner

  • Corrected behavior of loading gallery images for Challenges

  • Corrected synch issue with Challenges completion numbers

  • Corrected display issue with Challenges in IE9

  • Removed ratings column from unpublished Challenges

  • Fixed spacing issue with Challenges banner on search results

  • Corrected issue in placing a Challenge using Place search

  • Fixed display of completed challenges on User’s public profile

  • Added cancel option when replying to a comment

  • Fixed bug with search results on empty search string

  • Updated Alt text in Challenge Search box

  • Fixed issue with spinner going indefinitely after clicking flag that triggers archive.

  • Corrected issue where all Challenges are shown as completed when viewing another’s Challenges

  • Fixed display issue in IE8 when typing Challenges description

  • Fixed issue with Challenges balloons cutting off text

  • Updated Challenges Detail page to show same format for coordinates

  • Viewing a user’s completed challenges from public profile is now sorted by created date (newest first)

  • Hover text totals now include archived Challenges

  • Corrected bug that was not removing Completed Challenges from count when completed log was deleted

  • Added indicator to show how columns are sorted in Challenges search results

  • Fixed display issue with Challenge creation location dialog

  • Corrected text to include link on Profile page for Challenges completed

  • Fixed bug that was not using User’s home location when clicking on View Nearby Challenges

  • Corrected issue on my profile where Geocache tab wasn’t showing completed Challenges if user has no Geocache finds

     

 

Happy Geocaching!

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MAPS

WAITING PATIENTLY

FOR FIXES SOMEDAY

PS LOVE THE CAT

NEED GSAK TO SEE PQ

OTHERWISE LIGHTING IN SEA OF GREEN

 

Some nice Geocaching fixes, but the maps have been broken for a long time. Some day I would like to be able to copy a bookmark. A nano size container selection has been a long standing request.

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loading2.gif Loading Cache Logs...

 

Four minutes, and counting... still no logs.

 

 

Edit: They are showing now. I see that you got rid of the alternated shading on the logs (fine with me... it didn't match the width of the text anyway). Other than that, I don't see what's different about the logs.

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I'm not seeing the you found it notice on caches I've found anymore. I saw mention that this was 'replaced', but it wasn't missing for me before, and now it seems to be.

 

Also don't like the way cache logs load when you scroll down in Firefox. It's....distracting...

 

Everything else looks good though. Thanks!

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  • Updated Cache Details page gallery to include images from cache page

 

for what reason is this? i know a mystery where the second pic, which was uploaded but not used in the cache listing is necessary to solve a riddle. now it is shown in the listing as a thumb pic and the cacher can see it on first sight? why? for what reason?

 

and more: u put up more thumbs for mobile devices? for more traffic? or for what?

 

furthermore: who cares about the background pic as a thumb in the new gallery....

 

can´t understand this "update" .......

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  • Updated Cache Details page gallery to include images from cache page

 

Please revert. See #8 for the reason.

 

  • Add Paging to logs on Geocache Listings - Revamped the way logs are displayed on the Cache page. Added Tabs for viewing your logs; your friend’s logs or just all logs.

 

Using gc.com without javascript or with opera mini is impossible now. Thumbs down.

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loading2.gif Loading Cache Logs...

 

Four minutes, and counting... still no logs.

 

 

Edit: They are showing now. I see that you got rid of the alternated shading on the logs (fine with me... it didn't match the width of the text anyway). Other than that, I don't see what's different about the logs.

 

which alternate shading?

 

also love the fact that they all show at once without having to click "additional logs" and being tossed at the top of the page

 

I'm not seeing the you found it notice on caches I've found anymore. I saw mention that this was 'replaced', but it wasn't missing for me before, and now it seems to be.

 

Also don't like the way cache logs load when you scroll down in Firefox. It's....distracting...

 

Everything else looks good though. Thanks!

 

i'm not seeing what you mean by "distracting" the logs load instantly for me in FF 6.0.2 when i scroll down

 

the notification about "you logged this..." is right there

 

IE8 and Firefox, Windows XP:

 

Not seeing any past logs for caches. All I see is a spinning thing (no idea of its technical name) and then the words "loading cache logs." I tried all the tabs which are all blank, I have tried several caches.

 

Same here, put it back the way it was PLEEEAAAAAASSEEEEE :mad:

 

works perfect here and i love it

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Add Paging to logs on Geocache Listings - Revamped the way logs are displayed on the Cache page. Added Tabs for viewing your logs; your friend's logs or just all logs.

Really? where did you hide the tabs?

 

There's a new "View Logs" link ummmm.... above the logs.

 

The tabbed log interface is a nice substitude for the VIP List Greasemonkey script. Problem is, the Friends have to be friends through the site, and not just a list that I decide to create. I know many people (including myself) that have the Friends Requests turned off.

 

Could use some formatting improvements in the way the logs display on those pages, at least under Firefox, though.

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Add Paging to logs on Geocache Listings - Revamped the way logs are displayed on the Cache page. Added Tabs for viewing your logs; your friend's logs or just all logs.

Really? where did you hide the tabs?

 

There's a new "View Logs" link ummmm.... above the logs.

 

The tabbed log interface is a nice substitude for the VIP List Greasemonkey script. Problem is, the Friends have to be friends through the site, and not just a list that I decide to create. I know many people (including myself) that have the Friends Requests turned off.

 

Could use some formatting improvements in the way the logs display on those pages, at least under Firefox, though.

Yeah I just found it. Who would have thought tabs would be behind a link? Man, I sure miss the VIP list. Calling Lil' Devil, can we pay you?

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also love the fact that they all show at once without having to click "additional logs" and being tossed at the top of the page

 

 

Seemingly though if you wish to read the logs from oldest to newest you have to now scroll down and down and down, some button to load them all at once might be nice.

 

ETA: or worse, click a link and then click the largest numbered box, read ten or so logs, click next highest numbered box, repeat until done.

 

The friends logs tab might actually be useful.

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Attention!

 

The logs are loaded with AJAX now. The JSON-response seems to be identical to the new "public" API. Proviedes a lot of additional information (see below). But: The email-address of the account is shown whether it is public in the profile or not!

 

{
   "status":"success",
   "data":[{
       "LogID":180196994,
       "CacheID":1186660,
       "LogGuid":"beac55ea-2841-4734-9794-d4329a792636",
       "Latitude":null,"Longitude":null,
       "LogType":"Found it",
       "LogTypeImage":"icon_smile.gif",
       "LogText":"html-logtext",
       "Created":"08/16/2011",
       "Visited":"08/14/2011",
       "UserName":"name here",
       "MembershipLevel":3,
       "AccountID":2144381,
       "AccountGuid":"9da21115-347a-4637-a3dc-9bd634d2de36",
       "Email":"email-here@gmx.de",
       "AvatarImage":"85dd1f69-a7d7-46fb-b49d-b582d32c75ff.jpg",
       "GeocacheFindCount":3286,
       "GeocacheHideCount":122,
       "ChallengesCompleted":0,
       "IsEncoded":false,
       "creator":{
           "GroupTitle":"Premium Member",
           "GroupImageUrl":"/images/icons/prem_user.gif"},
           "Images":[{
               "ImageID":11962480,
               "ImageGuid":"17a1c5f4-53b1-47f9-9efe-b968988ac9ec",
               "Name":"Tower of death",
               "Descr":"",
               "FileName":"17a1c5f4-53b1-47f9-9efe-b968988ac9ec.jpg",
               "Created":"09/06/2011",
               "LogID":180196994,
               "CacheID":1186660}
           ]
       }
   ],
   "pageInfo":{
       "idx":1,
       "size":10,
       "totalRows":144,
       "totalPages":15,
       "rows":10
   }
}

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Ok, I figured out why the "You found it on..." note is not appearing on some caches. I'm ONLY seeing this if a user is actually watching the cache. Since the 'watch' notice appears in the same box, I'm thinking that the code behind the site is hiding the entire box when there are no watchers for a cache. Unfortunately, the 'you found it on' notice is actually in this box, so it's not showing up if the number of cache watchers is 0.

 

Not a big thing, especially in light of the eternal spinning wait icon some are getting, but I thought I'd mention it.

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The new tabbed stuff is accessed via the "View Logbook" link.

 

For anyone getting an endless "loading cache pages" message, try refreshing the page or close it and re-open it. I had that on my first attempt at looking at a cache after this update, but since then it's been working. (Note that this happens per browser, so if you use multiple computers/devices, you'll have to refresh once in each browser, after that it seems to work.)

 

Opera Mobile 10 for Pocket PC devices still works on the site, though as mentioned I did have to refresh the page, the first time, to get logs loading. Have not tested (and won't be testing) Opera Mini for Java, but I'd try refreshing if the logs don't show up.

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Ok, I figured out why the "You found it on..." note is not appearing on some caches. I'm ONLY seeing this if a user is actually watching the cache. Since the 'watch' notice appears in the same box, I'm thinking that the code behind the site is hiding the entire box when there are no watchers for a cache. Unfortunately, the 'you found it on' notice is actually in this box, so it's not showing up if the number of cache watchers is 0.

 

Not a big thing, especially in light of the eternal spinning wait icon some are getting, but I thought I'd mention it.

 

Yup, I think you are right about that, Matt. I'm seeing the same thing. The only caches I see "You found it on" are those that have at least one watcher. Good catch!

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Hitting the "Your profile" tab takes me to a page that says error, go to home page. Anybody else have this issue?

 

nope, no problem here

 

 

also love the fact that they all show at once without having to click "additional logs" and being tossed at the top of the page

 

 

Seemingly though if you wish to read the logs from oldest to newest you have to now scroll down and down and down, some button to load them all at once might be nice.

 

 

what do you mean "now"?...the oldest logs have always been at the bottom

 

"page down" works faster than scrolling :anibad:

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Attention!

 

The logs are loaded with AJAX now. The JSON-response seems to be identically to the new "public" API. Proviedes a lot of additional information (see below). But: The email-address of the account is shown whether it is public in the profile or not!

 

Wow, good catch.

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Ok, I figured out why the "You found it on..." note is not appearing on some caches. I'm ONLY seeing this if a user is actually watching the cache. Since the 'watch' notice appears in the same box, I'm thinking that the code behind the site is hiding the entire box when there are no watchers for a cache. Unfortunately, the 'you found it on' notice is actually in this box, so it's not showing up if the number of cache watchers is 0.

 

Not a big thing, especially in light of the eternal spinning wait icon some are getting, but I thought I'd mention it.

Confirmed. I checked a cache I found that did not have a watch on it and no confirmation of a find. I then put a watch on the cache and got the find list. Took the watch off and the find confirmation disappeared. One has to wonder if the lackeys take a minute or two consider what they are implementing, it sure does not seem like it. It also seems painfully obvious they do not do any peer code review or ask the question of what else is impacted by this change. I don't know, maybe the code they have is written by the flying spaghetti monster and it is impossible to review.

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Ok, I figured out why the "You found it on..." note is not appearing on some caches. I'm ONLY seeing this if a user is actually watching the cache. Since the 'watch' notice appears in the same box, I'm thinking that the code behind the site is hiding the entire box when there are no watchers for a cache. Unfortunately, the 'you found it on' notice is actually in this box, so it's not showing up if the number of cache watchers is 0.

 

Not a big thing, especially in light of the eternal spinning wait icon some are getting, but I thought I'd mention it.

 

Yup, I think you are right about that, Matt. I'm seeing the same thing. The only caches I see "You found it on" are those that have at least one watcher. Good catch!

 

Forgot to mention this above, but I guess it's just as well. This behavior is confirmed here as well. No "You logged this as found" message if the cache isn't being watched. For more technical details, see below.

 

Both items are part of a "StatusInformationWidget" class division. On a page without anyone watching, that division is not present at all which is why the "You logged this as found" message does not show up. Somewhere in the code that creates the pages there is apparently a check to determine whether to show that division or not, and apparently it's only criteria is whether the cache is being watched or not. So that now needs and And/Or with both the "is watched" and "has been found" type flags. (It could be a "watchers > 0" type flag too, but the same basic idea applies.)

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Hi!

 

[*]Add Paging to logs on Geocache Listings - Revamped the way logs are displayed on the Cache page. Added Tabs for viewing your logs; your friend’s logs or just all logs.

 

That doesn't work well for me :-(

 

Windows 7 x64, IE9:

 

1. If I want to all the logs it needs forever as I alway have to do PageDown until I finally reach the end of the logs which might last some time. Ctrl-End also doesn't really help :-( The old "Show all logs" link simply would be highly appreciated!

 

2. The tab view looks completely ugly now. Formatting is broken. I do have this tab view and each log first shows the cacher with avatar and find count and BELOW that there's this vertical ruler and the log. To the right there's another ruler going all the way down and on top of that there's the log date and the "View Log" link.

 

Maps: The Beta map still sucks (Pocket Queries are unusable and the new icons are hard to see). The old map also is close to unusable since one of the last updates as filtering doesn't work any longer :-( PLEASE fix this instead of introducing new stuff!

 

Page width: We still got stuck with these narrow pages :-( My 2 screens are 2560*1600 each and I only can make use of less than half of them :-(

 

Challenges: As I don't care about them I don't care what has been done there ;-)

 

Gallery Images: If I want to view the gallery images I need to do this one by one. I can't just click onto a pic to get to the next or previous one as I can with the ones from a single log.

 

Bye,

Christian

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So are you in league with ISPs and mobile phone companies. Do you have any idea how many megabytes are being downloaded for caches with many logs. Do you really think we need to see all logs by default even those from 8 or 9 years ago. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE revert to showing the top 5 logs AND DO IT QUICKLY. I thought the previous few updates were awful but this come pretty close.

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So are you in league with ISPs and mobile phone companies. Do you have any idea how many megabytes are being downloaded for caches with many logs. Do you really think we need to see all logs by default even those from 8 or 9 years ago. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE revert to showing the top 5 logs AND DO IT QUICKLY. I thought the previous few updates were awful but this come pretty close.

 

The logs are loaded on demand. By default (when you don't scroll down to them), none of them are loaded.

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Add Paging to logs on Geocache Listings - Revamped the way logs are displayed on the Cache page. Added Tabs for viewing your logs; your friend's logs or just all logs.

 

I don't like this. I usually want to see what the FTF says. They're always at the bottom. I was happy with 5 or all.

 

Yeah, until you tried to Load All on a cache with hundreds of logs.

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2. The tab view looks completely ugly now. Formatting is broken. I do have this tab view and each log first shows the cacher with avatar and find count and BELOW that there's this vertical ruler and the log. To the right there's another ruler going all the way down and on top of that there's the log date and the "View Log" link.

 

Shift-reload, or browser restart, as after every site update.

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Attention!

 

The logs are loaded with AJAX now. The JSON-response seems to be identical to the new "public" API. Proviedes a lot of additional information (see below). But: The email-address of the account is shown whether it is public in the profile or not!

 

{
   "status":"success",
   "data":[{
       "LogID":180196994,
       "CacheID":1186660,
       "LogGuid":"beac55ea-2841-4734-9794-d4329a792636",
       "Latitude":null,"Longitude":null,
       "LogType":"Found it",
       "LogTypeImage":"icon_smile.gif",
       "LogText":"html-logtext",
       "Created":"08/16/2011",
       "Visited":"08/14/2011",
       "UserName":"name here",
       "MembershipLevel":3,
       "AccountID":2144381,
       "AccountGuid":"9da21115-347a-4637-a3dc-9bd634d2de36",
       "Email":"email-here@gmx.de",
       "AvatarImage":"85dd1f69-a7d7-46fb-b49d-b582d32c75ff.jpg",
       "GeocacheFindCount":3286,
       "GeocacheHideCount":122,
       "ChallengesCompleted":0,
       "IsEncoded":false,
       "creator":{
           "GroupTitle":"Premium Member",
           "GroupImageUrl":"/images/icons/prem_user.gif"},
           "Images":[{
               "ImageID":11962480,
               "ImageGuid":"17a1c5f4-53b1-47f9-9efe-b968988ac9ec",
               "Name":"Tower of death",
               "Descr":"",
               "FileName":"17a1c5f4-53b1-47f9-9efe-b968988ac9ec.jpg",
               "Created":"09/06/2011",
               "LogID":180196994,
               "CacheID":1186660}
           ]
       }
   ],
   "pageInfo":{
       "idx":1,
       "size":10,
       "totalRows":144,
       "totalPages":15,
       "rows":10
   }
}

The code has been updated and this is no longer an issue. Thank you!

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Hi!

 

[*]Add Paging to logs on Geocache Listings - Revamped the way logs are displayed on the Cache page. Added Tabs for viewing your logs; your friend’s logs or just all logs.

 

That doesn't work well for me :-(

 

Windows 7 x64, IE9:

 

2. The tab view looks completely ugly now. Formatting is broken. I do have this tab view and each log first shows the cacher with avatar and find count and BELOW that there's this vertical ruler and the log. To the right there's another ruler going all the way down and on top of that there's the log date and the "View Log" link.

 

 

i don't normally use IE, but i just tried it now and i am not seeing what you're talking about...except that IE is sloooooooow as molasses compared to FF

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So are you in league with ISPs and mobile phone companies. Do you have any idea how many megabytes are being downloaded for caches with many logs. Do you really think we need to see all logs by default even those from 8 or 9 years ago. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE revert to showing the top 5 logs AND DO IT QUICKLY. I thought the previous few updates were awful but this come pretty close.

 

The logs are loaded on demand. By default (when you don't scroll down to them), none of them are loaded.

OIC, thanks for the clarification. A bit like Schrodinger's Cat though :) due to all the previous enhancements you have to scroll to see any logs at all so I have no easy way of knowing whether data is being downloaded or not!

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2. The tab view looks completely ugly now. Formatting is broken. I do have this tab view and each log first shows the cacher with avatar and find count and BELOW that there's this vertical ruler and the log. To the right there's another ruler going all the way down and on top of that there's the log date and the "View Log" link.

 

Shift-reload, or browser restart, as after every site update.

 

That fixed the display issue for me (Firefox user). Seems odd to have to refresh a brand-new page, but it worked.

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That fixed the display issue for me (Firefox user). Seems odd to have to refresh a brand-new page, but it worked.

 

That's because not the page itself is the culprit, but rather (one of) the linked CSS documents, and that's the same for all pages.

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