On last Sunday's trip to Oregon I was dismayed to discover that my PDA did not contain any logs for caches. (A PQ usually has the five most recent logs.)
I thought I had done something wrong loading the PQ, but it turns out that it was
Jeremy's fault.
Over the weekend there were a lot of issues with Pocket Queries being generated. For that I sincerely apologize.
In an attempt to speed up the Pocket Query Generator, the application(s) that processes tens of thousands of Pocket Queries a day, there was a cascading number of issues that resulted in duplicate Pocket Queries going out, Pocket Queries without logs and Pocket Queries not being sent out for a certain amount of time. Also in the process, Pocket Queries were brought down to a trickle, resulting in Pocket Queries not going out at all.
We're taking this issue very seriously at Groundspeak, and we'll be focusing on increasing the capabilities over this next weekend to ensure this never, ever happens again. By increasing this capacity we'll also be prepared to offer Pocket Queries with 1,000 results instead of 500. This will happen by the anniversary of geocaching (May 2, 2010). As those veterans to geocaching know, I'm not usually one to offer dates, but this one is solid.
Again, I offer my apology for this weekend's issues.
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