[Az-Geocaching] Error in stats?

[Brent Milner]

One of the reasons they may have been slow is that they have to hit the
database numerous times with every cache page, looking to see how many finds
each logged user has in their total. I believe this may have been the reason
they removed the totals next to each user's name. Brian explained this in a
previous post. But the totals appear to be back today, so maybe they found a
way around that.

One thing I noticed on geocaching.com, my name shows up as "Q-Tip (FroBro
Q-Tip)" now. It used to be just "FroBro Q-Tip." I'm searching for an
explanation to this on the site.

-FroBro Q-Tip


-----Original Message-----
From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com
[mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]On Behalf Of
Holmes, Richard
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:48 AM
To: 'listserv@azgeocaching.com'
Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Error in stats?


I'm concerned that Geocaching's popularity has overwhelmed the
geocaching.com servers. As a broadband subscriber, I tend to attribute slow
response, correctly most of the time, to far end equipment loading. Friday
evening through Sunday night response is agonizingly slow. I also use Yahoo
as a metric; if I see slow response on a site, I attempt a few contacts with
Yahoo; invariable their response is "eye-twinkling". (There's one for you,
Trisha; biblical probably. But then, I tangent.)

I'm reluctant to criticize my funprovider, but I think Geocaching.com needs
a plus-up. (Trisha, that's a Pentagon term for adding funding to a program.)

Dick
CJ

-----Original Message-----
From: Farquhar, Larry [mailto:larry.farquhar@ipni.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:39 AM
To: 'listserv@azgeocaching.com'
Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Error in stats?


I noticed that geocaching.com has the totals listed again in the logs.

Larry Farquhar


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Cluff [mailto:brian@snaptek.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:21 AM
To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Error in stats?


Yup, we are still cleaning up from the last round of changes. We'll announce
when we THINK we have everything working again.  The changes on the official
website were minor by appearance, but are causeing us to have to make
signioficant changes to our website.... Probably mostly our fault for not
writing it better in the first place, but hind sight is 20/20.

Unfortunatly the out of state and webtotal column are completely gone, and
probably aren't comming back. What happened over the weekend was that Jeremy
switch his entire site over to using static pages that are cached on the
fly.  They probably only get updated whenever there is something changed on
the cache.  With this being the case, he can no longer put the total for
caches found on the individual cache pages since they would only be correct
on the page with the last cache someone logged. Anyway, without that
information we loose 2 columns of data from the team stats page.  I guess we
are truely only an Arizona stats page now.

As for a couple of stats missing, we have found a couple of cache pages that
you just plain can't get.  They come back with an error, so we can't update
those stats till Jeremy fixes his site.

Also a causualty is the code that crawles the archived caches seems to be
completely broken, and I haven't found a way to make it work again yet, so
any changes to an archived caches won't show up at all unless someone tells
us about it, so that we can go manually go and grab the missing/updated
page.

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 08:13, Team Tierra Buena wrote:
> Looking at it this morning, the "out of state" count column has gone
> missing. That likely has something to do with it. I'm sure it's just a
> question of remapping the geocaching.com database, which has been the
> subject of some significant changes over the weekend.
>
> Steve
> Team Tierra Buena
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com
> > [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On
> > Behalf Of Scott Nicol
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 12:37 AM
> > To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> > Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Error in stats?
> >
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed their numbers to be off on the stats page at
> > azgeocaching.com? It is showing me at 313 finds when I
> > actually have 346. I
> > am thinking that archived caches are not showing up. Also,
> > our first cache
> > hidden is not showing up either.
> >
> > I'm sure the fine folks at azgeocaching.com :) are working on
> > the problem
> > still after the changes that geocaching.com made to their
> > site. But, wanted
> > to check to see if anyone elses numbers are off as well in
> > case it is just
> > mine that are wrong.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Scott
> > Team Ropingthewind
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