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What do you think of the new look at geocaching.com?

Love it!
0 (0%)
Like it
2 (33.3%)
Meh
1 (16.7%)
Don't care for it
1 (16.7%)
Hate it!
1 (16.7%)
Don't care, just give me that caching goodness!
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I can't really see much of a difference
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Novac

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What do you think of the new look at geocaching.com?
« on: May 06, 2011, 07:34:17 »
Geocaching.com changed their look this month. How do you think the look and feel of the site stacks up with the previous setup?

LCSM

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Re: What do you think of the new look at geocaching.com?
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2011, 08:01:39 »
Perhaps I'm just not one for change, however, it's a pain that I can't load directly from the map to my GPS now, the icons get too small when you zoom out, the pocket queries aren't working the right way. . . all in all, I'm not pleased.

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Re: What do you think of the new look at geocaching.com?
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2011, 14:46:17 »
To my mind what geocaching.com really needs is not a new look but a ground-up redesign — not that that's going to happen. It's a disorganized mess of a site.

Anyway, nothing really elicits strong feelings either way in the new design. I do think the new maps user interface is badly thought out. Particularly the small icons they switch to as you zoom out — first, they switch too soon, at a scale where the big icons would still be useful (in fact I think the big icons are probably fine at any scale, but in any case they should be used until you're looking at something a good deal larger than 10 miles by 10 miles); second, they're rather hard to interpret, bare blobs, poorly designed.

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Re: What do you think of the new look at geocaching.com?
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2011, 16:28:15 »
Lisa -- as of right now, I see the option to send a cache to the GPS on the map screen like it was before. Maybe they added it back?

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Re: What do you think of the new look at geocaching.com?
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2011, 17:31:51 »
Really?  I'll have to check on it. . . the map is making me crazy.  It zooms too far at once and becomes useless with no smilies showing.

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Re: What do you think of the new look at geocaching.com?
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2011, 19:35:11 »
Really?  I'll have to check on it. . . the map is making me crazy.  It zooms too far at once and becomes useless with no smilies showing.


The Beta maps are now default.  You have to check "PERSONALIZE" every time or no smileys for you  ;) The OLD maps are now pretty much useless. I miss the cache list that you got on the old maps. Other than that I like the new look