Five new caches, one new problem

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

In the past two days I’ve planted 5 new caches. Every single one of them was an issue over and over.

The issue was HTML. I’d write the caches up just like I normally do, submit them, and then view my results. Every time, the HTML code would get combined with text from the cache page, or just disappear all together. On one occasion, the cache page came up completely blank. I went back to view the HTML in the edit page, and that too was completely blank.

Another one of the consistent problem was entering the HTML for the WGA banner. EVERY single time, it would come up text only, no pic, no link.

The only way to make both of these issues go away, was to enter each individual HTML portion (WGA banner, attributes, links) one at a time. I’d put the code in for one thing, submit it, then go back and open up edit again, and do it all over until I had everything the way I wanted.

Anyone else having these troubles?

PS I’ve also noticed in the past week that other caches of mine have had issues with their HTML. The code was still there,but links in the cache page were gone. A few were missing their pictures as well.

What’s going on???

[-cheeto-]

the only issue I’ve seen is that on a few of my pages the link to geochecker got jumbled when it was fine before. it was not all of mine but it was a handful. I went in and modified them to put them back and they have been fine since. I was scouring the national forums earlier today and there are release notes from 4/18 so they did do some updating to the functionality recently.

as for using html in my postings, I typically take a similar prior cache I have made and just copy the entire page worth of html and then modify it to suite the new page. I am sure your issue is website related though and not with editing the html as I have heard and read about others having issues since the recent update as well.

[2_Stand]

I’ve noticed in the past few weeks that some lazy code I’ve written in the past, which used to work, stopped working. If I had a link on my cell to my grocery list page, it didn’t work. The link image on my homepage for my blog didn’t show up, the same for my geocache links to our team page. I think maybe the W3C is tightening up codes. It turns out all of my problems were fixed when I added the appropriate suffixes: .html , .gif

[-cheeto-]

lazy code I’ve written in the past

i beleive this may be the key to what’s been happening as I also had a bulletted list on one of my newer one’s show up strange and it was due to an interesting use of style which no longer worked right.

i find myself writing lazy as well just to “get the job done” and I have enjoyed seeing how the site functionality changes the html when you submit the page. some pretty cool system functionality is built into the gc.com listing engine… however, it wreks havoc when they make changes!

[-cheeto-]

I would say they have bugs in their cache publish function now and it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with “messy or lazy” html code. The page is incorrectly modifying the html I submit and there seems to be no rhyme or reason. it turned into 77??? at the end of one of my paragraphs. then I modified it and it then inserted a bunch of
‘s where I did not have them before after each word in a different section of the page. It seem’s you might be “rolling the dice” as to whether you can get a page correctly published at the moment….

-cheeto-

[Team Deejay]

Please, please, please, when you encounter what appear to be bugs in the gc.com website, direct your issues to [email protected]. The hot ticket is to NOT change the cache page after it starts acting weird. You will find that they will get back to you quickly with a response (or help if you are doing something wrong).

[Cheesehead Dave]

You may also want to take a look at this thread where Groundspeak has helpfully started to list the changes they make to the website. It looks like they made some recent changes to how HTML is handled in cache listings. That caused some unexpected effects, but it looks like they got it figured out and everything should be working properly again.

If you’re having problems that seem to be related to a recent update, that’s the thread where you should probably post what issues you’re having.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

@Cheesehead Dave wrote:

You may also want to take a look at this thread where Groundspeak has helpfully started to list the changes they make to the website. It looks like they made some recent changes to how HTML is handled in cache listings. That caused some unexpected effects, but it looks like they got it figured out and everything should be working properly again.

If you’re having problems that seem to be related to a recent update, that’s the thread where you should probably post what issues you’re having.

Thanks Dave, that’ll be handy.

[-cheeto-]

I noticed those update threads as well. Will be nice to follow to see updates they make to the site… The bugs with publishing seem to be resolved from what I saw while editing cache pages yesterday. Atleast the obvious stuff we were seeing appears to be resolved. I wouldn’t want their jobs… I’ll stick to mine thanks.

[Lostby7]

OK so is anyone else having trouble with decrypting hints?
When I select decrypt all I get is a second copy of the cache page text where the decrypted hint should be…. 👿

[Lostby7]

OK I found the topic that talks about it…..In the mean time I will use a different browser…I guess that is another good reason not to use IE7

http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=191152

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