Placed Date Grid Feature Request

Question

I am in a low travel part of my year and thus looking to create some personal caching challenges for myself and the one I have chosen is to increase my loops of the placed date grid.

1. In Tools under "Map Hidden Date" Please add checkbox functionality to Hide Found/Owned/Not Found caches - this is available in lots of the statistics searches but not under any of the tool searches. As I loop this grid the problem of a limit of 1000 search results shown gets more and more crowded with found caches taking up spots in the results that are of no value to me - this is easily fixed by adding ability to remove already found caches from search results. I am working on 7 loops now and suspect that by the time I reach 12 that this tool will no longer be useful at all without the ability to ignore found caches, which puts an upper bound on my fun.

1a. The above option would also be useful for Hidden Month and D/T grid tools as well - I am typically using these tools to identify caches i have not found that meet the criteria I have searched and thus the option to ignore those I have found would be useful. With fewer months and D/T combos this is less urgent but probably not too hard to add to all 3 if doing placed date update.

2. In Stats tab there is data for lots of loops including each of the other 3 grids, but not for how many times someone has looped the placed date grid. Seems like that should get added as well. I figure my current stats and goals are way under top loopers for this grid, but when I first looked at counties found (that filter has been broken for awhile and might need attention) and favorite points logged I was way behind and made those a priority and moved way up the list, if I can set some goals (break into top 1000, top 100 etc) and then track my progress that adds to my overall enjoyment while caching.

Comments

I'd like filters adding to the search but for different reasons. I like finding caches on their anniversary - there are a number of challenges out there based on doing so (I have some myself).

Could we have a search facility to find caches on their anniversaries ? i.e. From 5/5/XXXX to 6/6/XXXX to return all caches placed in those 31 days irrespective of years.

This appears to be the one used in the hidden dates grid but I can't find a way of picking specific dates myself.

Using the hidden month tool works to an extent but requires multiple entries as each one is 'year' specific.

If the filters that were available on some of the other stats (DT grid - Date found - Hidden Month etc) were available on the date placed grid it would be easy.

Answer 1

Interesting, but I think too complicated to implement.

Comments

Are you a developer on this project?

All of the data already exists in the database -they know days hidden and know each users finds and the looping already exists and the filters themselves already exist on other searches like for favorited caches.

It may be there is a complexity beyond my basic understanding of the site, but I dont think users should be determining what is or is not too complex that is up to devs.

Users of the site should be saying they are or are not interested in specific requests so that devs can gauge interest vs complexity to determine what to implement.

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I'll bite. Regardless of the potential complexity, I am not interested in having this feature added.  This is gertting overly bogged down in minutiae, and the few users out there who might use this can manually track it.

Tl;dr: no thanks.