NewCacheNotifiers

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Reason: Explain the tool, list pros and cons, explain how to set up notifications etc

Description

New cache notifiers is a tool available for users with a paid membership. It also requires that the user is a premium member at Geocaching.com This is an alternative to the Geocaching.com Instant Notification Service. The page shows some information about the notifiers, below that is information about the current email configured for the user, their current notifiers and a graf of how close they are to the limit of the notifiers.

When adding or removing notifiers it might take a few minutes for the system to recognize the changes.

Advantages

• A smoother interface.
• No distance limit.
• Filter on location such as country, region, county.
• Filter on other meta data such as difficulty, terrain, type and size.
• Get notified about every log up until the first Found it or equivalent. Additional notifications regarding logs might be very delayed. (Optional)
• A better formatted email with more information about the cache included in the email.
• Option (default) to get a daily digest instead of instant notifications.
• Can be based on dynamic locations provided by your smartphone.

Disadvantages

• Likely to be less stable than the official notifiers at Geocaching.com.
• In most cases at least a minute slower than the official notifiers.
• Max 100 new cache notifications per day and max 500 per month. The limit is a rolling rate limit and not based on calendar months.

How to set up

Information to be added.

Dynamic location

Information to be added.