Only getting the new post 12 hours later than published?

stevenwill · Post by **stevenwill** » 02 January 08 10:10 pm

Help! I seem to only be getting new cache postings +/- 12 hours after they are published! I have tried refreshing my browsers cache, with a full reload, with no joy

. I am only a basic member could this possibly be the problem?

While I noticed this a while ago, I have definitly proved this on one of the latest publishings.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thank you for your help in advance

Steve

Map Monkey · Post by **Map Monkey** » 02 January 08 10:15 pm

One of the Premium Membership features is the "Instanotify" Notification Service....the perks of a couple of dollars per month.

Snippets from the relevant GC page:

- As new logs are posted to Geocaching.com you can get an instant email sent to you with the contents of that log entry.

- You can subscribe to a location and whenever certain logs are entered by geocachers in that area, you receive an email. The new "publish" log type will allow you to be the first one in your area to get notified of a new listing.

Hope that helps

mm

Post by **CraigRat** » 02 January 08 10:16 pm

Do you mean if you go to the new caches page at geocaching.com, or on the new caches pages here on GCA?

stevenwill · Post by **stevenwill** » 02 January 08 10:18 pm

I mean if I log into geocaching.com and ask it to show me the new caches.

Thank you

Map Monkey · Post by **Map Monkey** » 02 January 08 10:23 pm

Oh.....

stevenwill · Post by **stevenwill** » 02 January 08 10:23 pm

Initially I thought this was just me but today I have confirmed that the cache that I have just completed was only visible to me 12-14 hours after publication and have no idea why!
Steve

Udderchaos · Post by **Udderchaos** » 02 January 08 11:02 pm

I had a similar thing on new years eve. 2x Caches where published and i recieved emails for both (premium member)

BUT

the caches didnt appear on the normal GC.com page until the next day, although they could be linked from the published emails

should also mention it was teh same for the caches owner

stevenwill · Post by **stevenwill** » 04 January 08 3:12 pm

Thanks for the replies, it seems to be a geocaching.com problem then, just affecting me more because I'm just a basic member in seach of a FTF and rather slow off the blocks!
May you all have a great geocaching day
Steve

Udderchaos · Post by **Udderchaos** » 04 January 08 9:24 pm

im a premium member and its happening to me too

Richary · Post by **Richary** » 04 January 08 9:34 pm

They aren't ones that appeared and then were unapproved briefly for whatever reason while the approver asked for more info by any chance? That's been reported before.

If you post which cache I am sure one of the approvers will say if that was the case.

Udderchaos · Post by **Udderchaos** » 04 January 08 9:40 pm

no and it happened to the caches owner as well.

got the published email and all the links worked

cache didnt appear in websearch until the next day

SecretSquirrel-BJC · Post by **SecretSquirrel-BJC** » 04 January 08 10:07 pm

I noticed that the cache doesn't show up in the "List nearest in the ACT" but it does show up in the search from home coordinates.

Perhaps they materialize the first query because it is extremely popular and rerun by many people (saves load on the server), whereas the home searches are much more infrequent and only used by 1 person so the result set isn't cached.

Anyway that is my hypothesis.

Big Matt and Shell · Post by **Big Matt and Shell** » 07 January 08 12:25 am

Another thought could be that it doesn't show up until the day it was listed ticks over in the US! <P>Could explain the long wait. I know a few users were having problems logging a date that hadn't clicked over in the US.

stevenwill · Post by **stevenwill** » 07 January 08 9:37 am

Thanks for all the replies, gives lots of food for thought. Look like I will have to live withit.

Thanks again for all the help / advise.

Steve