Guys,
I'm not sure if anyone has experienced this little gem or not or if there is anything on the forum or elsewhere (it's certainly not on the Individual Stats page itself) which makes one aware of the consequences. For anyone who uploads to FR24 please read and understand the following;
You would all be familiar by now with the individual statistics page- under 'My Data Sharing' thence 'Show Statistics.' This page is being updated now and then and if you check the line adjacent to your coordinates there's an icon at the far end which appears like an eye. Click on it now and up pops another icon alongside it which looks like a pen (or crayon) as well as your coordinates of course. Clicking on the 'pen' will bring up a dialogue box showing your location on a map with a movable balloon. Hovering your mouse over the 'eye' brings up 'show/hide coordinates' where as hovering over the 'pen' doesn't tell you anything at all. However, all seemingly innocuous so far.
Now if you're like me and you're fond of accuracy just beware if you are tempted to move the location balloon even just a tad that you not only update your coordinates but you may well do what I did and accidentally create a new alias for your receiver, sending the old one off into the ether and voiding it. By the way you can't select a new alias for yourself, it's selected for you automatically seemingly by some random method only FR24 understand.
Thankfully after contacting support they are going to roll back my alias but if enough of us change our location balloon simply because it's a few houses or streets away and the inevitable happens these poor guys in support will be swamped with requests to fix it up.
If you want to keep your existing alias intact, don't fool with this dialogue box as there are consequences which although unintentional can become quite problematic. Since we're the only one who can see this information (apart from FR24), I don't think it's worthwhile playing with and quite frankly is probably something that's a completely unnecessary feature for existing uploaders.
Regards,
Gregg
By the by, for the time being I am now Radar T-YSBK50!
I'm not sure if anyone has experienced this little gem or not or if there is anything on the forum or elsewhere (it's certainly not on the Individual Stats page itself) which makes one aware of the consequences. For anyone who uploads to FR24 please read and understand the following;
You would all be familiar by now with the individual statistics page- under 'My Data Sharing' thence 'Show Statistics.' This page is being updated now and then and if you check the line adjacent to your coordinates there's an icon at the far end which appears like an eye. Click on it now and up pops another icon alongside it which looks like a pen (or crayon) as well as your coordinates of course. Clicking on the 'pen' will bring up a dialogue box showing your location on a map with a movable balloon. Hovering your mouse over the 'eye' brings up 'show/hide coordinates' where as hovering over the 'pen' doesn't tell you anything at all. However, all seemingly innocuous so far.
Now if you're like me and you're fond of accuracy just beware if you are tempted to move the location balloon even just a tad that you not only update your coordinates but you may well do what I did and accidentally create a new alias for your receiver, sending the old one off into the ether and voiding it. By the way you can't select a new alias for yourself, it's selected for you automatically seemingly by some random method only FR24 understand.
Thankfully after contacting support they are going to roll back my alias but if enough of us change our location balloon simply because it's a few houses or streets away and the inevitable happens these poor guys in support will be swamped with requests to fix it up.
If you want to keep your existing alias intact, don't fool with this dialogue box as there are consequences which although unintentional can become quite problematic. Since we're the only one who can see this information (apart from FR24), I don't think it's worthwhile playing with and quite frankly is probably something that's a completely unnecessary feature for existing uploaders.
Regards,
Gregg
By the by, for the time being I am now Radar T-YSBK50!
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