retire Geocaching Challenges

[SuchaNana]

groundspeak heard Bucknut63 and Cheech_gang - myself, shucks i liked 'em...



"Dear Geocacher,

In our effort to inspire outdoor play through Geocaching, we are often faced with decisions about what to focus on next, and what to focus on less. It is through these decisions that we explore opportunities to grow the global game of Geocaching.

Occasionally, during this process, we are faced with the reality that certain ideas don't catch on as we had hoped. In these situations we owe it to ourselves and to you to make tough decisions about the future of every project and the resources to be applied to each. Sometimes, as a result, cool features must become casualties.

In this spirit, we have decided to retire Geocaching Challenges.

This means that, effective today, we have disabled the ability to create new Challenges. We have also removed the Challenges application from all mobile application stores. In approxim ately 7 days, we will be removing all traces of the Challenges functionality and related content from Geocaching.com.

On an office wall here at HQ is a sign that reads, "Let's make better mistakes tomorrow." By accepting that we will sometimes get it wrong, we can allow ourselves to learn from and imagine new opportunities in the world of Geocaching. Our hope is we can take the lessons from Challenges and create better tools to guide you on your next adventure.

Sincerely,
Geocaching.com

[SuchaNana]

is there going to be a planned memorial service officiated by the honorable Reverend ChallengeFree?

T-Hunter found it officially in the forums...
http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index. ... pic=304869

[Handyman-N-Fam]

When do they read the will?

[TeamMina]

We got a week to save photos from ones we created before they go away.
Like this one:

[GoodDog]

Good News.
Proud to be Challenge Free !
Now if GC will only give us a Christmas present and BRING BACK VIRTUALS

[Bucknut63]

Challenge free until the end!!!!

[Mighty_Mo]

Duh ..... what is/was a challenge?

[GrizzFlyer]

I did one for the icon, and now its going away..... Oh well, at least I picked up some trash while doing it. Maybe they'll give me credit for a CITO in exchange.

Have to agree with Good Dog, BRING BACK THE VIRTUALS !! (and the Locationless). The problem with those is that some real silly ones came out, and it ruined the whole deal for everybody.

[OnDHunt]

I will not miss Challenges! I too did one just for the icon and to see what they were all about. I was not impressed.

I do find it odd that they have icons that newer cachers will ever have a chance of getting like locationless or APE caches. True there is one last APE cache so I guess newer cachers can still get it if they really.....really want it.