Grade erhielt ich eine überraschende Mail von geocaching.com, in der steht, dass beschlossen wurde, Challenges (nicht zu verwechseln mit Challenge Caches!) in den Ruhestand zu schicken.

Das HQ von geocaching.com schreibt, dass in den nächsten 7 Tagen alle Spuren der Challenges und zugehörige Inhalte gelöscht werden. Es klingt, als würde es ab nächster Woche auf geocaching.com aussehen, als hätte es nie Challenges gegeben.

Hier ein Zitat der Newsletter-Email, da sie scheinbar noch nicht alle erreicht hat:

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

Quelle: Geocaching.com Newsletter vom 4. Dezember 2012 23:55 Uhr MEZ.

Gut, dass ich erst zwei Challenges geloggt habe und mir damit nicht noch mehr Mühe gegeben habe .