We will see. But I did let him know in no uncertain terms that if he’s a no-show, that’s it, we are done forever. Kaput. Finished. I’ll never speak to him again.

... there are by state?

I just looked at someone's stats and I think they have more finds than there are boxes in my state!

Not a biggie of course, but it got me curious about how many boxes there are by state.

Under the HOME tab is statistics by state... if that's what you're looking for

I’m not sure if I’ve ever looked at those statistics before. Why am I not surprised that Massachusetts has the most boxes?

That's exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

I have never once clicked on the Home tab, now I'm going to explore the rest of the site, ha ha.

Ryan,
Question...
On the 'Plant Types' and 'Hide Types' pie charts, why did you switch colors on the types for each chart. It's seems a little confusing. Just my nit-picky two cents worth!

🙃

I'm not really sure, to tell you the truth. I have some sort of vague memory that I had basically used "rainbow colors" on both charts originally, but when red was the first color and used for "traditionals" (the "first" type of letterbox), people complained that the charts used too much red--which tends to look like an error or mistake or something. So I think I reversed one of them.

But honestly, I'm not even sure if that's true or if I'm just imagining it.

I've gone ahead and tweaked the code so both charts will show up in reserve-rainbow colors, though. The charts are generated each night (I think) with a cron job so you won't see the change immediately, but the next time it runs, they'll both use the reverse rainbow order color so red doesn't take up the biggest chunk of both pie charts.

-- Ryan

These people are wrong, of course. ☺️ Red is a great color! My favorite in fact.

That aside, I don't understand what "reserve-rainbow colors, cron job" means but I would think that if I'm looking for, say, event boxes, it makes sense that I would be looking for the same color on each pie chart, no? Or is that what you meant?

I meant to post "reverse-rainbow color", not "reserve"-rainbow color. Instead of red to purple, I used purple to red.

But I do agree that it is more logical to use the same color for each element on each pie chart.

A cron-job is just something that I have the system run automatically over a set period of time. AQ runs all sorts of stuff in the background. It'll check if remotely-hosted clues have changed since the last time the clue was checked (it'll do this throughout the day and night). It'll run backups of the database. (It does this once each night.) Once per week a cron job runs that selects the Box of the Week.

And in this case, there's a cron job that (I think) runs every night that will update the graphs with the latest data. AQ uses external software to generate the graphs and they often have limits about how much I can call them or how often I can call them, so I use cron jobs to generate the data once per day so I don't run into those sorts of limits, and it's not so time critical that it needs to be updated every minute or anything.

-- Ryan

Ryan,

Thank you for addressing this and I hope it didn't cause you extra trouble. I was more curious than anything.

But I do appreciate your taking the time to explain it - ignorance fought.

Hoping you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

It's time for Great Lakes Letterboxing Bingo! Everyone's invited to join in! It's rumored to be the world's slowest bingo game, but it's a fun letterboxing activity for the cold winter months. You do NOT have to live in the Great Lakes region to play. If you'd like more information about how to play, email me at GreatLakesBingo@gmail.com. I've already sent an email to last year's players, so also email me if you didn't receive it.

Such slow time winter fun!

Sent you an email. Curious about the details!

Great! I'll send you more info. And that reminds me that I should have also said for the group that newer letterboxers are very welcome to join the game.

TrailMark and I are looking for feedback from everyone who has recently (in the past few weeks) installed a test version of Clue Tracker on iOS or Android. Is it clear how to do various searches (Nearby, Location, Name / ID)? Is it clear how to search using "Additional Criteria?" Drop us a note at support@pearlcrescent.com or reply here. Thank you!

I have an Android phone. Is there any way to determine what version I currently have installed? I do not recall getting a new version recently.

If you have the test version of Clue Tracker, on the Search screen you will see a new section labeled "Additional Criteria" (on Android, this replaced the "Add Search Term" functionality).

p.s. PI Joe -- You can get the version number by Tapping the app menu (3 horizontal lines in the top left corner of the screen). Then tap Settings and then "About This App." The current test version is Version 2.1.

I have 2.0.8.

I downloaded it today! 😊 At first glance, it seems easy to navigate.
1) Wish I knew what the icons mean on each box page.
2) Wish the app could ignore my attempts, one of my favorite settings on the AQ site.

Are you on an iPhone or Android?

You may find the FAQ helpful:
iPhone: https://cluetracker.pearlcrescent.com/ios/faq/
Android: https://cluetracker.pearlcrescent.com/android/faq/

The first question has annotated images for the common screens. Please ask if you need to know more.

You can ignore your attempts when searching for boxes. On the Search screen, open "Search Options." Login (if you aren't already logged in). Make sure that "Hide My Attempts" is checked. (Search Options can be opened/collapsed by tapping it; the search options are always taken into account whether they are collapsed or not.)

If you use Clue Tracker on Android, you can opt-in to be a tester via the “Join the beta” section within the app listing:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pearlcrescent.cluetracker

Note: You may encounter bugs when using test versions of software. If you don't want the hassle of experiencing bugs, just wait for the regular version to come out. :-)

I do have v2.1. So far I have not noticed any issues with navigation the screens. I did notice that there are no longer colored backgrounds for boxes that I have already found in any particular list of clues. Are all the colored backgrounds gone now? IIRC there used to be backgounds for found, attempted, and planted boxes.

It seems to work well for me. I had to play around with it a bit to see how it worked and that you could add as many criteria as you want. My search results show found boxes as green just as they used to, but only if I uncheck 'hide my plants and finds' (as you would expect).

Thank you. 😃

Can you double-check that Clue Tracker thinks you are logged in? The background colors, checkmarks, etc. should work as they did before.

That was it. The colors are there.

One thing that I did notice as a slight negative. When there is a longer list of clues than the screen can show the information at the bottom of the screen displays over (under?) the three icons on the bottom of the screen (III O <). Pressing those icons still works but they are not as clearly visible with clue details overlapping them.

Thanks for letting us know. We will look at fixing this problem later in the month. Since our newer Android test devices have the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen set to use "swipe gestures" (thin line at the bottom) instead of the bar with three buttons, we did not realize how bad things look when using the buttons.

My parents are still using unused punch cards as scrap paper for their grocery lists.....

BB

I love this...I am down to the end of some notepads we "inheirited" from a business that went defunct 40 years ago. Used them 10 years, then they got packed up in a move and I recently unearthed them. Lovely blast of nostalgia

Whenever my wife and I go on vacation, if the place we stay offers a free notepad I take it, so now I have dozens that I also use for grocery lists. It's a nice reminder of the trips years later.