TAG :: Toronto Area Geocachers » Geocaching.com Update Time – Challenges, Logs and Profile Changes (Oh My)
Aug 18 2011
It’s not Tuesday, but as expected Groundspeak has taken the site offline to launch Challenges ahead of Groundspeak’s big Block Party.
We’ve been over challenges already, the part I noted in the announcement was more the details about the fact that changes are already planned:
Challenges is a work in progress! We are planing several hotfixes in the next couple weeks to address bugs and feature requests. Some ideas for the next phases include:
- Highly rated Challenges displayed in geocache search results
- Pocket Queries for Challenges (and GPX downloads)
- Mapping tools
- New Challenge Types
- Support for verification questions
Also noteworthy in the update is some minor changes to logs and profile pages. They are working toward diminishing the find count from being visible on the cache logs – instead of showing Handle (5000 found) there’s a little bar chart underneath your profile thumbnail pic (that pic is new). You can hover your mouse on the thumbnail pic for more details on finds/challenge completions.
Challenges are a new feature to experiment with, and Groundspeak will be issuing a new challenge once a day to get things started up. Premium Members will also be able to post one per day, and we’re getting a “thumbs up/thumbs down” ranking for these challenges. (Now there’s quite a few people asking for that for caches, but we only got the “thumbs up” on that one). [ Groundspeak August 18th Release Notes ]