[GeoStL] Re: June's Happy Hour: Another Oops, on June 26

  • From: Susan Ring <susanmring@xxxxxxx>
  • To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 13:51:08 -0500

Thanks Jim

I guess it must have just been a temporary glitch or some problem at my end.  
or just Murphy's Law
I'll just try to get the word out through other avenues to the regulars.

Susan


On Jun 15, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Jim Greene wrote:

> Susan,
>  I just submitted an event cache for the Fall Picnic, it went through without 
> any trouble. It's Sept. 13th in Blackburn Park BTW.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Susan Ring <susanmring@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> No I always leave the previous one up for a while so people can log it. 
> That's never been a problem before.  That's a thought, though-it would 
> certainly be a bug that would need to get fixed. With monthly events you 
> can't really archive before you submit the next one. 
> 
> On the new process you first choose the "event" button, then you put in 
> coordinates and it shows them on the map, without any other waypoints 
> visible.   As soon as the map showed my coords, I didn't get any kind of 
> alert or warning- the page completely froze up.  
> 
> 
> On Jun 15, 2014, at 10:31 AM, HobbitTaz(M. DERR) wrote:
> 
>> Is the prior one archived?   Would it let you can get the date on it?  Just 
>> a thought.
>> 
>> 
>> Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note® 3, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
>> 
>> 
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Susan Ring
>> Date:06/15/2014 10:23 AM (GMT-06:00)
>> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [GeoStL] June's Happy Hour: Another Oops, on June 26
>> 
>> -
>> Hello everybody on the list who usually attends happy hours at Shamrocks,
>> 
>> I've been preoccupied with family matters and forgot to submit the event 
>> till the deadline day, last Thursday. But GC.com has changed their 
>> submission process slightly and the site kept locking up, no matter what I 
>> tried. I just didn't have the time to devote to a lot of troubleshooting so 
>> I had to give up. So....
>> 
>> I've decided to keep happy hour on the usual day, which would be June 26, 
>> and just spread the word without an event page.  Anybody here on the list 
>> please spread the word to anyone you know who usually attends. You guys on 
>> Facebook, can you please send out a little notice?
>> 
>> Details are the same as always: Shamrocks in St. Peters on the outer road, 
>> tables are reserved from about 4:30 till whenever.
>> 
>> Thanks so much and sorry for the goof.
>> 
>> PS...Has anyone else had trouble with cache submission since they split the 
>> process at the beginning (you have to first select geocache or event right 
>> off the bat). This is my first submission since they made the change. When I 
>> got to the page where you put in the coordinates and they pop up on the map, 
>> the whole page locked up. I tried starting over, I tried signing in and out, 
>> even closed and opened my browser and I just couldn't get it to work. Walked 
>> away for a hour, then another hour, still wouldn't work when I came back. I 
>> haven't had time to check the forums-will do so when things settle down in 
>> real life a bit. 
>> 
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