Fitbit Open Groups, Adventures and Challenges Join Google Graveyard Today

Open groups, adventures, and Fitbit challenges are a thing of the past. A whole part of the social aspect of Fitbit is gone.

The tech world is a pretty brutal market. When a product or service does not work, when it does not achieve the expected success, it is often sacrificed, cowardly abandoned. Sometimes its users are lucky enough to have a replacement, more or less natural, sometimes, unfortunately, it is not. Google is a tech giant with a reputation for making many products and services and ruthlessly killing those that don’t work. This also applies to products developed in-house, such as those purchased. And today, Fitbit is paying the price.

Open Groups, Fitbit adventures and challenges are now history

Last February, Fitbit announced a planned end to open groups, adventures, and challenges. The date has been set for March 27, 2023. That day has come and gone, and if you haven’t uploaded your trophies by today, I’m sorry to say you missed your chance. The operation is no longer possible. Last month, Fitbit said it was preparing to remove these features due to their “limited usage.”

A whole part of the social aspect of Fitbit is gone.

If you’re a longtime Fitbit user, the disappearance of public groups, adventures, and challenges should be a little disappointing, especially considering that two of them were actively involved in building a more social platform and were eagerly copied by rival companies. companies. Challenges, for example, have been used to motivate your loved ones to reach their daily step goal. For their part, open groups were a good way to meet people with the same approach to sports and/or health as you, and there were groups with several hundred thousand active users. Unfortunately, today all this has disappeared.