Fitbit is discontinuing challenges, adventures, and open groups

Fitbit’s smart gadgets will soon say goodbye to three features: adventures, open groups, and challenges. Sharing the app should be streamlined, the company believes. You can still download the data of these functions.

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The features were once added to make the Fitbit app a bit more social, but the company tells TheVerge that they weren’t very useful. It provides no further explanation. In any case, you can still use these social functions for a while: they will be taken offline completely on March 27. Although apparently not much was taken into account, there are indeed great possibilities.

In challenges you can do a kind of competition with people you know. This way you can challenge each other to take an x ​​number of steps in a day or in a month. Adventures sounds a bit vague, but there is the option to take a virtual tour to all kinds of famous places based on the number of steps you take. Now comes the most dramatic news about this: the trophies that you have worked so hard for all these years in those adventures, they will disappear from your profile on March 27th.

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Open groups

The open groups are more like a forum, but they also stop. You can talk about a certain topic, such as pregnancy or vegetarian food. There is still a place left to talk about specific topics, namely via the Community forum: in principle, the open groups are indeed a somewhat superfluous function.

The only way to have another step battle with your friends is to use the leaderboards. Too bad, because that is a bit less interactive. You may no longer be able to earn trophies for yourself, but you can get badges.

It’s a bitter pill to swallow for anyone who has a nice trophy cabinet full of trophies in the Fitbit app. It also feels like a rather rigorous decision to remove that fun function to challenge each other from the app: it doesn’t seem like a very labor-intensive option to keep up with, while many people do enjoy it.

What do you think, is this a loss or can you do without it? Leave it now in the comments to this article.