A list of most recently visited caches

[rapotek]

It is a proposition of a "nice-to-have" feature, introducing a list of most recently visited caches:

• whenever a user enters a cache view page (viewcache.php), the system stores in database the user id, the cache id and the current time as a visit trace;
• only web page visits are registered, okapi calls are not;
• when a user visits a cache already present on the list, no new entry is created but the cache last visit date and time is updated only for user;
• the system presents a list to given user sorted first by last visit descendant (the most recently visited cache b user is on top of the list) and a cache name, by selecting an additional entry from a user menu;
• the system stores up to a configurable number of visits per user (f.ex. 50): when the user list is to exceed this number, the least recent cache visit is removed from it, so the list always most recent visits and no more than assumed number of entries;
• a user can manually remove an entry from her/his list: in this case entries previously removed by the system due to maintain maximum visits per user are not "undeleted", the result list simply contains f. ex. not 50 but 49 entries;
• the feature is enabled or disabled per node;

The feature in theory could reuse existing CacheVisits BUT: the latter registers only unique visits (one per week for given cache and user), while here every visit should be registered. Moreover, the manual removal could be problematic here due to count computing dependencies. Therefore I recommend using a separate solution, regardless of a storage space redundancy.

[kojoty]

@rapotek technically it can be done but I can't see the reason to implement it - what is a user scenario for this?

User opens the map and look at geocaches and want to come back to viewed geocache? for what? I have never needed such option and can't imagine who needs it and why (of course I can be wrong).

[rapotek]

And I use it very often on GC, where there is such a list, but with limited functionality (without a "manual" removal f.ex.). I like to return to listings of caches which have attracted my interest because of some reason, but without adding them to the watchlist or clipboard. It is a kind of a nice-to-have feature, to see my "visits" history for example. But if you don't see the need to implement this, I can gladly close the issue and use clipboard instead, although I have to remind myself to add a cache to it when visited.

PS: Does every user have to start looking for caches from "opening the map"? Caches' pages entries directly from "My Neighbourhood" are not so rare in my case, for example.

[kojoty]

But if you don't see the need to implement this, I can gladly close the issue..

@rapotek - please - we all can decide what we want and what is not necessary - I just wanted to understand the idea

there are features which we MUST find consensus because they are crucial for OC and there are ideas (like this) which can be an option for node and for users as well - so if you want to spend time to implement it - it's just your choice :) and I believe everyone have nothing against such initiatives