Lá se foram as "Challenges"

[daraopedal]

Parece que lá perceberam que tinha sido um "flop".

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

[pxlobo]

Lá se foram as "Challenges"

Ohhhh !!! Estou agora cá a pensar qual irá ser a ideia milagrosa que a seguir virá ...

[lynxpardinus]

Foi uma boa decisão. Mas gostava de saber que lições vão ser retiradas deste flop.

[MAntunes]

E como as Challenges foram a resposta da GS para não fazer retornar as virtuais, agora que as Challenges morreram, voltou a discussão "Bring Virtuals back".

[hfilipe]

lynx, ainda há pouco tinhas feito a "sondagem" sobre as challenges e o resultado foi devastador. Parece que não era só por cá!

Espero que a GS tenha aprendido que deve ter as diversas variantes a aparecerem todas juntas nos mapas, nas listagens, nas PQs e nas apps. Penso que o Waymarking não é mais popular devido a isso, a ter um site separado.