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WestSideDaddy
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 Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:07 am Post subject: So what do you think will change |
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| I see that GC has a maintenance banner up for today. Last few releases have gotten some tepid responses. I wonder what they are releasing today? |
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JJnTJ
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:21 am Post subject: |
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Based on a little over a year of my observations, I predict there will be:
52 changes in total:
20 changes will make long-standing issues worse because Groundspeak doesn't have a single real geocacher working for them and they have no clue how geocachers actually think or use the site.
27 changes will make meaningful progress on long-standing issues.
5 changes will actually fix long-standing issues outright.
15 of those changes (including some of the good ones) will be reverted over the next few days with no explanation.
5 brand new (minor) features will be added:
3 of those features will be useless to actual geocachers, and implemented poorly and require fixes over the next few days
1 feature will be useful for real geocachers, but will be implemented poorly and take two months to actually behave as intended.
2 features will get in the way of real geocachers, and will be sidelined, castrated or removed within two weeks.
The horrible thing is that my company's software development works the same way. The people writing the code have no idea what it's for. This is no major problem, as long as they are given decent specifications to work from. Unfortunately, the people writing the specs are marketing people and have no idea what the users actually want or how they use the software. But they can think of new ideas all day long!
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bflentje
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| JJnTJ wrote: |
The horrible thing is that my company's software development works the same way. The people writing the code have no idea what it's for. This is no major problem, as long as they are given decent specifications to work from. Unfortunately, the people writing the specs are marketing people and have no idea what the users actually want or how they use the software. But they can think of new ideas all day long!
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I am glad you caught yourself there at the end. While I agree that there are good and bad software developers, the average software developer should only be writing code to the requirement they are given.
Your first statement about no geocachers on staff probably has more merit than anything.
One thing to keep in mind, while developers should be testing their own code, they should not be held responsible if bad code goes into production. The morons running QA or whoever does final acceptance testing should be the ones that get flogged.
Unfortunately, I think John Q. Public is the unofficial QA team for Groundspeak.  |
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WestSideDaddy
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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Wow.. I should have called this developer's coffee shop
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JJnTJ
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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| It wouldn't be so bad being the unofficial QA team if we could tinker with things on a separate site until most of the issues were shaken out. I think they'd have a lot of volunteers, and they wouldn't annoy the core userbase by dumping half-baked changes on them. |
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Red_Devil35
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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...and it went down just as I was about to submit a new puzzle.....
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JJnTJ
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KRedEP
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Well this has great potential! |
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knowschad
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=285002&pid=4887424
Some cool new stuff, especially for puzzlers! |
The corrected coordinates feature will be great once they tie it in with Pocket Queries (IF they ever tie it in. Groundspeak is well-known for not completing what it starts).
Deleting of images from a log is a welcome change, as well.
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tonkaMN
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Great, they deleted the 'view map' link on cache pages. Now I'll have to figure out a new way to refresh my map every five minutes when it no longer recognizes my finds. Ugggh! |
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WestSideDaddy
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Great, they deleted the 'view map' link on cache pages. Now I'll have to figure out a new way to refresh my map every five minutes when it no longer recognizes my finds. Ugggh! |
That is the link I click on the most. Now you have to scroll down to the on page map and click view larger map |
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WestSideDaddy
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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| tonkaMN wrote: |
| Great, they deleted the 'view map' link on cache pages. Now I'll have to figure out a new way to refresh my map every five minutes when it no longer recognizes my finds. Ugggh! |
That is the link I click on the most. Now you have to scroll down to the on page map and click view larger map |
Looks like they jsut ocnsolidated the view map link into the text for "In Minnesota" text
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pfalstad
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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| knowschad wrote: |
| JJnTJ wrote: |
http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=285002&pid=4887424
Some cool new stuff, especially for puzzlers! |
The corrected coordinates feature will be great once they tie it in with Pocket Queries (IF they ever tie it in. Groundspeak is well-known for not completing what it starts). |
Also they haven't tied it in with the iPhone app yet, as I just found out. |
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KRedEP
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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| pfalstad wrote: |
| knowschad wrote: |
| JJnTJ wrote: |
http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=285002&pid=4887424
Some cool new stuff, especially for puzzlers! |
The corrected coordinates feature will be great once they tie it in with Pocket Queries (IF they ever tie it in. Groundspeak is well-known for not completing what it starts). |
Also they haven't tied it in with the iPhone app yet, as I just found out. |
iPhones don't always work the way they're supposed to when they get wet. |
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ghost640
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| WestSideDaddy wrote: |
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| tonkaMN wrote: |
| Great, they deleted the 'view map' link on cache pages. Now I'll have to figure out a new way to refresh my map every five minutes when it no longer recognizes my finds. Ugggh! |
That is the link I click on the most. Now you have to scroll down to the on page map and click view larger map |
Looks like they jsut ocnsolidated the view map link into the text for "In Minnesota" text
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Thanks for the tip! Don't think I'd have tried that... |
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