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I like that one Mrs SL. Wonder if I can pull it off in time.

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Most definitely, was thinking a Theme would work to make it more interesting…next is to find the spot. Thanks Rod!

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I stand corrected. 🙂

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So what adventurous plans are there for everyone’s weekend? We may head to the 2nd annual Beaver Dam Cache and Release.

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I check in and see nuthin’s happening…except for Jim’s FTP for the day. Dang it, I just can’t win.

 

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lostcheq sent me her request earlier in the week so I will start this off with her request.

lostcheq, Linda, lostcheq

 

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That would explain it. There used to be a different attribute but a grumble was uttered and that fun one was changed. It was the antenna/wireless beacon attribute which referenced the name and the nearby beacon to the NE.

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It was more about TNW.

Not sure how you missed Great Reception? Camo tape test tube up about 12 ft up the tree (1.5D/3T). Three finders since your stop and following the path north from the parking lot near the dumpsters was the closest parking and from there it was a short walk to the tree line. Oh well, they aren’t Pokémon- you can’t catch them all.

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Another busy day. I think today was our first weekend day for 6 weeks or so that didn’t have us going somewhere and doing something.
I finished the last 30 WBCB logs that I had over looked.

Had time to catch up on some chores around the house. Next up is to clean off the workbench in the garage.

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What are everyone’s big plans for this pre-pre Holiday Weekend?

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I can make the doubles go away if you want.

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labrat_wr wrote:

Becca, you will need to renew your API token. new thing from GC. API will need to be renewed every 90 days (i think) http://wi-geocaching.com/gcauth/ link in your “Your account” –> Geocaching.com authorization

Yeah, kind of a pain, that’s fer sure. Just one more thing to try and remember.

 

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The Happy Hodag! wrote:

Team Northwoods wrote:

I’m safe so far. I don’t think I have seen any Hodagging found logs on my caches yet so have at it. If I do win an annual award someday I would like I to be a joyous affair with in which to accept such award and to give my speech of acceptance.

Should I go out of my way to find one of your caches now? I’m sure you hide what I might consider a plus 1 cache.

Don’t set your hopes too high. 🙂

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bartrod wrote:

Well that explains the mystery. I’d usually voted each month if I’d logged any of the nominees…even nominated some caches. Apparently this link isn’t getting much usage though. I can see that “favorites” helps identify sought out caches, but this link did too, at least it did for me. From the few questions/responses being posed anywhere in the WGA forums, it’s becoming apparent that the website as a whole isn’t drawing much attention.

I disagree, Rod. We track the usage of the site and while COTM isn’t what it was 5 or more years ago (Favorite Points do seem to gather more interest than our poll) there still is a lot of traffic that moves through here daily.

Social media may indeed be taking over. And with Groundspeak’s new messaging system and smart phones, issues can be quickly resolved without posting in the forums, waiting, and hoping to eventually get a reply.

If waiting for a reply means looking for help from the Admins/BOD, that usually happens pretty quickly. You and I have messaged a few times on things so we do get down to business pretty quickly. I know I get many emails, PMs, gc.com messages with questions and we/I jump to them right away. If they are questions not directed to the website admins, then sure there may be a bit of a wait. That’s the joy of a bulletin board style of forum which can be pretty similar to social media in responses.

I see value in all of these but I’m still a proponent of the COTM and other links that bring attention to caches and cachers. There used to be a link to register milestones. It made it easy to congratulate your friends that had achieved them. This link no longer exists so few congratulations are listed in the forums now. If these kinds of things are being eliminated, the website is losing its relevance.

I agree that some items were removed when the new website went live but those where seldom visited or used. The Congrats! Forum still exists for dropping accolades. I vaguely remember the milestone rankings on the site-guess I never looked at it. I rely on posting my Way To Go’s from seeing the log or hearing of the milestones being reached. The BOD continues to discuss the COTM and how we can continue to make it relevant and useful. Hearing you find value in it helps us to stay motivated.

At work, I have shut off the running of some reports that have been running every day for years but I found them to be of no relevance any longer. I’ve been waiting for someone to mention that “important report” but months have gone by and no one has noticed. I think this is similar to the old Milestone page. When Team Black Cat created the new site, he poured over the old content and discarded that which was either no longer up to date or seldom visited or too intensive to roll over to the new site.

Have you noticed how stable the new site is? The old site had to go away as it was running on software that was no longer supported and was very complicated in the code that had been used over the years to give us what we had and did not lend itself to non-IT people trying to post and edit the website.

These days, the site runs along smoothly on its own with very, very interruptions. Groundspeak changed the way their API interacts with us and that has caused some hiccups in the last few months but we adapted and TBC worked through most issues.

Currently we are having issues with the LCG list and reporting submissions. Yeah, this stinks for those playing but we’ll be flexible. Our webmaster is working himself way too hard at his paying job to be able to break away for the nonpaying job right now and Team Deejay is also experiencing a new adventure in moving to SC. How will all of this play out for us, we don’t know right now but we will adapt and be patient and do our best to give all we can to the WGA and the website. Rest assured that Brian put in 100s of hours creating this new site over 2014 and will not let it fall apart after only a few months of use in 2015. If things get really bad and unusable, then we work out a new plan. Anyone want to be an intern associate to the webmaster?

If I had an option, I’d rather be doing the fun stuff instead of the paying stuff I have to do. If someone wants to start a crowdsourcing for me to do this full time, I will accept it! J

These things you shared are really important Rod. If no one cares, then we are irrelevant. You and many others do care and that why you share these things. Awesome, super-dee-duper and we need to hear them. Nothing worse than hearing second hand there are issues and never being told about them to try and fix them.

If anyone tries to contact the webmaster or the admin/BOD and doesn’t get a response, let me know. Shoot, if you want, contact me first and I can try and help find the right person to help.

Occasionally, I don’t get back to y’all right away but I am pretty speedy as are all the others.

 

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