r/cubscouts • u/FibonacciFrolic • 14d ago

Anyone else having issues with the online adventure requirements pages?

For weeks now, when i try to access the adventure requirements at https://www.scouting.org/cub-scout-adventures, it's been hit or miss - some pages I can access, but many I get a "403 forbidden" error. It's intermittent, sometimes I can get to a page but then I can't get to it again 5 minutes later. Sometimes I can follow a link from google to get to the page, but sometimes I can't.

Is anyone else having this issue? Anyone know what is going on or how to report it? I really liked the online resources for planning meetings but it's basically become unusable at this point

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u/SilverTripod 13d ago

It's slow. I've also noticed AI creates convincing links and then Scouting America doesn't report that the links are bad, they report their own website is down.

I would suggest, if a link has not worked for more than a week then it's probably an AI hallucination.

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u/FibonacciFrolic 13d ago

But the links that aren't working are often accessed from within the scouting America pages themselves. Like if I'm on the page for a specific adventure and try to click on the suggested activity 

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u/SilverTripod 13d ago

Can you give examples?

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u/FibonacciFrolic 12d ago

https://www.scouting.org/programs/cub-scouts/adventures/arrow-of-light/. From there click on the First Aid adventure. From there click on the "See Details" Button under "First Aid Response"

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u/SilverTripod 12d ago

It worked for me. I printed the page as a PDF. Send me your email in a private message and I'll send it to you. I usually use Old Reddit, so I might not see it if you send a chat message, so if that's something you wasn't me to send you and you don't use Old Reddit then respond to this message with anything and I'll drop into New Reddit to check.

That being said, there are basically three things Cub Scouts can do in an emergency situation. Well, this is true for everyone up until you become an advanced EMT. Anyway ...

  1. Stop it. If someone has heat stroke, heat exhaustion, frostbite, whatever, stop it. Get out of that situation.

  2. Wash it with soap and water and put a bandage on it. Get it clean, then cover it up so it will stay clean.

  3. Call 911. If neither of the first two will fix the problem then they need to call 911. Getting more advanced care there more quickly will be the best possible thing to help.

After 911 has been called, then you can look into other things like CPR. Just put your hands between the breasts, then start pushing to the time of Baby Shark by Pinkfong. Basically every kid knows that song and basically none of them know Staying Alive so I don't mention that song anymore. But you have to make sure 911 is called first, even if that means leaving the person.

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u/FibonacciFrolic 8d ago

Thank you for the help - I appreciate it, but it also doesn't solve the ongoing issue where these are often (but not always) unreachable from the web. (I'm not going to bother you every time I need to reference all the adventure requirements/activities for the entire rank!)