Travel Bug and GeoCoin Badge disappeared

Question

After this week's update of my stats, the Badges for Travel Bugs and Geocoins are no longer mentioned. There used to be 39 different badges (times 8 levels), but now there are only 37 left. When I open the list of all available badges, using the Badge information button, these two badges are nowhere mentioned.

I am also no longer granted points for having gemstone badges in these two categories.

Answer 1

This was posted on the Project-GC facebook page yesterday and explains why:

“We will be removing two badges from BadgeGen in Profile stats:
"The Travel Bug" and "The Coin Collector".

The data isn't publicly available in the new API and we therefore do not have the technical possibilities to support these anymore.

UPDATE #1
Based on feedback in the post we have realized that this is affecting the Belt as well (since discovering can give 25 points). We will see what we can negotiate with HQ on this matter.

For now, the Badges are gone from the web. That's just visually this far though, we still have the data from the old API, so the belt still works. But in 2 weeks from now we can't update that data.”

Comments

I get it. These were always problematic. It seemed like too many tagged bugs were credited as coins.

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Sorry to see the badges disappear. Perhaps having one badge for trackables could overcome the difficulties of identifying the difference between coins and travel bugs.

Answer 2

It is back!

Last update on Project-GC Facebook page:

"We were wrong. After speaking with HQ we came to the conclusion that it should work. We tried again, with the same code as before, and suddenly it works. Either it was some temporary glitch, or we did something wrong. The later is most likely.

Expect the two missing badges (and related belt points) to be back soon."

Answer 3

Sometimes if you win a badge in tb, for example somebody delete your log or logs and if the badge is for 200 (for example) you down to 198 and badge disappears.