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Re: Cyprus - 3 months ago
There is also some other issue where the map of it isn't drawn correctly in Profile stats. Maybe it solves itself with the new data. Otherwise I will look into that.by magma1447 - Checker news
Cyprus - 3 months ago
I'll be updating Polygons on Cyprus today. The current data is from February 2017 and seems incomplete. Actually, the data is correct, but Geocaching isn't. Cyprus is an island. Two parts of the island are army bases belonging to Britain(?). Not important. What is important is that geocaches in these areas also has the country Cyprus set at Geocaching.com, therefore we have to includby magma1447 - Checker news
Re: Auto-disabling of checkers - 3 months ago
Another suggestion is to send a PM to the one who created the tag. Since the creator of the tag probably has contact with the CO in this forum, he (or she) can try to write in that thread, to get the CO to add the attribute. If the attribute isn't added with 7 days the tag would get disabled automatically by the system. There could also be a "Post NA log at specific geocache in Prby magma1447 - Miscellaneous
Re: Usefull tools implemented as checkers - 3 months ago
What about moving (and updating?) this list to the Wiki engine? Anyone up for it? Related topic in QA: https://project-gc.com/qa/?qa=25521/there-that-provides-summary-list-helpful-tools-that-checkerby magma1447 - Miscellaneous
Re: Auto-disabling of checkers - 3 months ago
A suggestion from me. Instead of sending a PM to the checker creator and disabling the checker I could create a list of with all known issues. Checker developers could then go through this list and click either "disable checker" or "Create NA log (with Project-GC's account and pre-determined text)". PMs could then be sent when there are items on the list, similar toby magma1447 - Miscellaneous
Re: Auto-disabling of checkers - 3 months ago
As pieterix mentioned, I recently discovered an issue when creating the PMs where it didn't always send all PMs. I don't recall the details, but it was something with overwriting my own data before it was sent. It still disabled everything it was supposed to though. That was fixed a few days ago, or maybe a week, I don't recall. The next issue is that there are a lot of tags getby magma1447 - Miscellaneous
New LUA Sandbox - 3 months ago
I am in the process of upgrading operating systems with new releases. With that follows a lot of software upgrades as well. I don't think this will cause any issues, but I wanted to inform you all. The servers running LUA are next in line. First off it will mean some downtime/disturbance. Probably around one hour per server (two servers). Secondly, the Sandbox will be upgraded from versioby magma1447 - Checker news
Testing dev-environment's code - 3 months ago
A test of operating system upgrades.by magma1447 - Test Forum
Switzerland - 3 months ago
I'll be updating the polygons for Switzerland today. Here are the detected changes: Regions only in Switzerland: - Regions only in _tmp_Switzerland: - Counties only in Switzerland: Coeuve (26) Comunanza Capriasca/Valcolla (21) Corserey (10) Ebersecken (3) Kirchdorf (2) Kirchenthurnen (2) La Folliaz (10) Lac Léman (VS) (23) Lohnstorf (2) Maladers (18by magma1447 - Checker news
Re: Challenge Exceptions is back (soon) - 4 months ago
If they have the challenge attribute that's probably why. There seems to be a lot of COs adding the Challenge attribute when they shouldn't. I assume because they like to mess things up, but in some cases it might be because they don't understand better. I am waiting on HQs answer how that should be handled. I expect them to say NM, which won't help, because the CO won'by magma1447 - Challenge checker exceptions
Re: Challenge Exceptions is back (soon) - 4 months ago
Sounds reasonable, I'll keep it in mind and see where we end up.by magma1447 - Challenge checker exceptions
Re: Challenge Exceptions is back (soon) - 4 months ago
What's done regarding multiple checkers is that the newest gets removed if they are identical. Identical means same script and a config that's identical after doing json_encode(json_decode(config)). So, just switching order of the options will make them different. It would be hard to automatically determine which is best if there is more than one. There can also be reasons for havingby magma1447 - Challenge checker exceptions
Re: Challenge Exceptions is back (soon) - 4 months ago
Due to some really great users there are already zero exceptions that needs voting. So I will enable the scheduled job sending PMs when it's needed. Also, now when the exceptions are in place I could test the scheduled job that automatically disables faulty checker tags. It found one tag, it was a crap tag on a traditional. So that seems correct. Upon next release I will enable both scby magma1447 - Challenge checker exceptions
Re: Challenge Exceptions is back (soon) - 4 months ago
And the link has been changed from https://project-gc.com/Tools/Challenges?moderate to https://project-gc.com/Tools/Challenges?challengeExceptionsby magma1447 - Challenge checker exceptions
Re: Challenge Exceptions is back (soon) - 4 months ago
There are still two scheduled jobs that are disabled, one of them is the one sending PMs to users to vote. I am waiting a few days to see if I get any negative feedback on my purges/cleansing. The other job disables checker tags that it believes shouldn't exist. Right now it's matching a lot of tags. I need to figure out why. EDIT: One reason is that those exceptions I have added myby magma1447 - Challenge checker exceptions
Re: Moderate Challenge Exception Button - 4 months ago
The page is coming back today. See https://dev-01.project-gc.com/forum/list?12 for more information.by magma1447 - Challenge checker exceptions
Challenge Exceptions is back (soon) - 4 months ago
The Challenge Exceptions page was removed when the new attributes arrived. Two primary reasons. 1) The code needed to be re-adjusted to be based on the attribute instead of type+name. 2) We were hoping that HQ would handle the attribute well enough to stick to only that. Regarding #2, it doesn't seem like it's enough and we are bring back the exception list. This has taken some timby magma1447 - Challenge checker exceptions
Re: Moderate Challenge Exception Button - 4 months ago
There is some automatic logic affecting the content of the list. We just forgot to remove the scheduled job sending PMs when removing the page. PS! The page is coming back, today.by magma1447 - Challenge checker exceptions
GC316Z3 - My Personal Top Ten - Challenge Cache - 4 months ago
I would like to discuss GC316Z3 - My Personal Top Ten - Challenge Cache Under the header/title "Aufgabe" (Mission) the text starts with "Finde mindestens 10 Caches" (Find at least 10 caches). Then the text goes on starting with the word "Quatsch" (poppycock). It's something about telling some story around them, but I didn't pay too much attention theby magma1447 - Challenge checker exceptions
Re: Attributes part 2 - 4 months ago
It did however not take me a long time to find a challenge (or several) that doesn't have the attribute...by magma1447 - Checker news
Re: Attributes part 2 - 4 months ago
I concur, HQ must have run their script. A day ago Project-GC had ~20,000 geocaches with the Challenge-attribute. Now there are 37,109. With this we will release some code that has been waiting for this. Code that uses the attribute to decide if it's a challenge or not.by magma1447 - Checker news
Color blind - 4 months ago
Project-GC often receives feedback from color blind persons. Parts of Project-GC has been adapted and there is a user setting to enable Color Blind Mode. I have now added that flag to the LUA engine as well, it's available in args[1].environmentSettings.colorBlind I just updated one of my scripts to look like this: if args[1].environmentSettings.colorBlind then taby magma1447 - Checker news
Re: Attributes part 2 - 4 months ago
I have refreshed all Challenges (determined in the old ways) in Project-GC manually a few times since the new attribute release, to make sure the attribute ends up in Project-GC faster. Currently there are 14346 geocaches with the new attribute according to Project-GC. Out of 37157 by Project-GC defined Challenges. I just started yet another refresh, it takes a few hours, also refreshing potenby magma1447 - Checker news
Re: Attributes part 2 - 4 months ago
None of the new attributes can be set to negative. Not the next one either from what I know.by magma1447 - Checker news
Re: Attributes part 2 - 4 months ago
The image links above links to images that are 80x80 (.png). The images you probably have in the old list is 30x30 (.gif). For some reason HQ hasn't rendered 30x30 gif images for the new ones. I will inform them of this today. There is a function in the Geocaching Live API to fetch all attributes, that returns image links as well, which doesn't work. :) Using the png files is solvablby magma1447 - Checker news
Re: Sorting table iterator - 4 months ago
Target hasn't been active in a long time (years), sadly. But if you have a code snippet that's corrected, feel free to throw it in here. I am considering and looking into have more of a source controlled environment for both scripts and tags. It would help both with examples, and then there are changes in PGC or GCCOM that requires editing a lot. It could also help with getting niby magma1447 - Script development
Re: Attributes part 2 - 4 months ago
Making a first release now. So in case anything is really broken, you know why.by magma1447 - Checker news
Re: Attributes part 2 - 4 months ago
It seems like only four out of the five new attributes will be added today. We have no ETA of the fifth. The four that will be added today are: | id | group_id | attribute_name | has_no_option | base_filename | +----+----------+---------------------------------+---------------+-------------------+ | 69 | 6 | Bonus cache | 0 | bonby magma1447 - Checker news
Re: Attributes part 2 - 4 months ago
There aren't images for the new attributes available yet. Until there is, which hopefully is later today, I will use the Cactus icon, since that attribute is obsolete.by magma1447 - Checker news
Attributes part 2 - 4 months ago
Later today there will be new attributes released on Geocaching.com. Please keep it secret until they are published at Geocaching.com. We haven't been allowed to announce it until today, otherwise we would have, since it potentially can have been relevant for new Challenges. There are five new attributes in pipeline. One of them are "Challenge", we have therefore removed our votby magma1447 - Checker news
