Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged notifications

is there a way to get notifications of disabled, moved or archived caches?

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 19:04:58 +0000

is there a way to get notifications of disabled, moved or archived caches? Especially interested in archived caches for new clear locations

No notification of new multi-caches

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 18:33:28 +0000

I have set up notifications for new caches (trad, multi, unknown, letter, wherigo). Somehow notifications of new multis are not sent out/received - unlike mails of new traditionals and unknowns. Anyone with solution or similar problems? I have recieved mail from geocaching com about a new multi in the neighbourhood, and I would expect a notification about the same multi cache from project-gc - but NO. It is not the first time notifications about multis are not received. I have checked trash and spam folders, but still no mail. I have received notifications of other new mails (trads and unknowns), I have not hit the limit for the day or month.

Hope to hear from someone. Thanks in advance

GEO Karen

"Lowst" Not Lost and Found New Cache Notifier

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 05:18:46 +0000

New Cache Notifier for Community Celebration Event titles the email with "Lowst" and Found. The correct spelling would be "Lost."

The cache type details in the email has the correct spelling

Potentially the title and cache type info could be changed to reflect the rename to "Community Celebration Event"

Seen picture: https://imgur.com/V8vVgxC

Enhancement request: favourites in favourite notification

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 07:23:21 +0000

Paying members can chose to recieve an email advising them of changes to favourite points, when someone favourites (or removes a favourite) from one of their caches. Every time I see this report the very next thing I always think is how many favourites does this cache now have? Every single time. It seems odd that having been told I have a recieved a favourite that I have to look elsewhere to find how many this cache now has.

In the notification email, at each cache summary, beside difficulty/terrain/size, could you please include total favourites (including those just added or removed).

Many thanks!

Feature Request: Add New-Cache-Notifier results on a predetermined list in the virtual GPS

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:13:22 +0000

I have a long List in the New-Cache-Notifier and I am getting emails for every new Cache of some Owners. It would be nice if the results would not only be sent by email but could also be saved on a previously defined list in the virtual GPS.

i can not vote

Sun, 23 Feb 2020 22:45:54 +0000

I can not vote any posts in the community system. What is the reason?

Can I register 2 email addresses so that we both get the notifications on favs, logs, etc?

Sun, 25 Aug 2019 12:05:39 +0000

Currently I only have one email address registered with PGC - can and how do I increase this to 2 so that my wife can get the notifications directly too? (Really sorry if this has been asked before - I looked in FAQs but could not see it :( )

FP notification without names

Sat, 02 Mar 2019 15:21:41 +0000

I' m using the FP notification feature.

So I get every day a mail with added FP. This works well

But sometimes I get a mail WITHOUT the Cachername who removed a FP.

The Cachername who removed a FP is shown ais §OPTOUT§..

Is this a feature or a failure? I would like to see who removed a FP.

Receiving FP notifiactions with §OPTOUT§XXXX§ as the username

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:14:28 +0000

Myself and another cacher keep receiving email notifications for FPs where the FP was removed by §OPTOUT§XXXX§ (where XXXX seems to be a unique identifier)

It always seems to correspond to someone's name where they are giving a FP (and where they actually gave the FP a long time ago).

Thoughts?

Not receiving Image notifications

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:08:28 +0000

Neither myself nor another cacher are receiving email notifications when images are uploaded to our caches - Is there an issue?

Favorite point changes - OPTOUT. Is this an error?

Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:31:05 +0000

I am unsure whether this is a bug report or not.

I received an email about favorite point changes on two of our caches. It indicated that points were added and subtracted. All four user names contained "OPTOUT" with different numbers. Screen shot linked below. Is this a bug, or did four users who wish to remain hidden coincide tally add and remove FPs on the same day?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/1cc1f4c7-6328-4259-ab02-0bb38935e541.jpg

Suggestion: Tool for COs to easily check for valid qualifications on their owned challenge caches

Fri, 21 Dec 2018 14:37:30 +0000

As the owner of several challenge caches, I find it tedious to verify the qualifications of people who claim finds. Sometimes they link to the Project-GC checkers, sometimes they don't. Even if they do, it's just text that they write in the log and could easily be faked (haven't seen this done yet, but it's possible).

It would be really nice if there was a tool on Project-GC that would show the challenge checker status for every user who has logged a find on my challenge caches and call specific attention to any logged finds that fail the challenge checker.

The user experience might be like this...

User loads the tool. Tool shows a list of all the user's owned challenge caches with a single-icon indicator showing the status of all the finds for each cache (green = all logged finds are valid qualifications, red = one or more of the finds are for users who do not qualify for the challenge). User clicks on one of the listed challenges. Tool shows a list of all users who have logged a find on that cache and an icon that shows their qualification status (green = challenge checker passes for that user on that challenge cache, red = challenge checker fails for that user on that challenge cache). The icon is a link to the challenge checker prefilled with the selected user. The list also links to each user's Geocaching profiles as well as the individual logs.

This could probably be a Project-GC premium member only feature.

This would let me as a challenge cache owner easily see at a glance if all finds are properly qualified or if there are any that I need to look into and perhaps contact the user and/or delete logs.

A related feature would be similar to the email notifications for FPs and log images. But this one would be a notification for any logged finds on your challenge caches for which the user does not qualify for the challenge.

Of course all of the above would only be possible for challenge caches for which a checker exists.

Feature Request - notification of being added to lists

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:06:55 +0000

Not sure if this is technically possible, but I'd like to get notifications if any of my caches are added to a publicly visible list (e.g. being added to a series). Any chance of making this possible?

Is it possible to create a notifier for new challenge caches?

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:25:58 +0000

I have some GC cache notifiers and some PGC event notifiers and I wanted to create a PGC cache notifier for new challenges.

But is it possible to create a notifier based on the partial name "challenge" or on the "has checker" attribute?

Feature Request: I like to receive notifications of new caches placed by selected owners.

Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:03:58 +0000

I regularly find great caches of creative owners outside of my homezone. But then I often don't notice when they create new caches later. I'd like to be notified of new caches from these previously selected owners.

Ability to receive notifications for certain not owned caches

Sun, 25 Mar 2018 07:50:40 +0000

Is it possible to add the ability to receive notifications like log changes, change of fav points etc. for certain caches, that I'm not own?

For me it is very useful, because I maintain a cache created by a team, not only by me.

Or, if this is not possible, to add a second mail address for notifying these things?

Can we have the ability to see miles in the notifications?

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:48:23 +0000

I have asked this previously but didn't really get a response. Is it on the roadmap to allow us to see distances in miles on the new cache notifications?

Can we get the option to change the new cache notifications to imperial units?

Tue, 05 Sep 2017 13:24:54 +0000

I love the new notifications, but see that the units used are Metric. Would it be possible to get the option to change to imperial?

Do not recieve notifications anymore

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:14:39 +0000

I do not recieve notifications anymore! The mails with + and - favorites on my caches, and also log-edits.

I have:
checked my spam.
Disabled, then Enabled Notifications.

I am using google mail..

Anyone have an idear?