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in Bug reports by Ragdoll. (850 points)
Was here to ask the same thing, we have 10 but 0 are listed.
Me too.  I’ve found 103 lab caches and currently zero showing

Whoa that was a bit startling when I checked the stats this morning

I wondered why my finds on Project-GC are 57 less than on Geocaching.com.  

Now I know.
Yep - my 40 labs have gone....
The entire Labcache tab is gone from the profile stats.
Given that it says on the Finds tab "x unique geocaches, including 0 lab caches", it would appear that this is indeed an error, and not PGC deciding to remove lab cache tracking.

I want my 11 cache types in a day back! :)
I initiated the labcache issue here as I'm not a facebook user. Thanks to  Jakuje for  bringing the information here.
Nevertheless I feel that for this bug report of missing labcaches it is the right place to do it on the project-gc site itself.
Thanks to all other for their input on this issues.
And special thanks to the Project GC - Team for resolving this bug.

5 Answers

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The Labcache tab has gone from the ProfileStats as well.

I tried to see if this was due to the LabCache module being disabled in the module settings for ProfileStats. This resulted in the following error:

Internal server error (5cec536c218770.25984884)
by Funky_Boris (9.8k points)
0 votes

Please, follow the Project-GC facebook to be informed about the ongoing issues and avoid wild guessing. This post describes the issue in detail:

https://www.facebook.com/ProjectGC/posts/2412845002106408

The most of the issues with lab caches should be resolved soon.

by Jakuje (Moderator) (117k points)
Ok, allt i ordning igen.
Why you Offerte the Information just for face**** User ??
Why you do not published it  on your own Site?
meybux, please, try to avoid offensive language here. I understand that you might not be using facebook so this is why I cross-posted it also here trying to help also others.
–1 vote
I would say so. My lab caches used to disappear sporadically from my stats page, but turning them off in settings then re-enabling them usually fixed it, but not this time.
by BFMC (3.6k points)
–1 vote
I think it could be due to API changes from Groundspeak - end of March they announced that they are cutting off the gpx information download for Lab caches https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/topic/351597-release-notes-adventure-labs-march-26-2019/

Could have been that the information was still on PGC servers up until now but it's not anymore and they can't refresh it via the same means anymore.
by ivss_xx (210 points)
–1 vote
The lab cache tab has gone because you have zero lab caches. This is normal - the tab does not show if you have no lab cache finds (ditto challenge tab, hides, FTFs, etc). The problem is why has PGC lost their lab cache data? I suspect a change in the API, however it was working with the new API, so I think a repair to some other part (TB data?) broke lab cache data.

I had 51 lab caches and 12 types in a day :-(

It's all very sad....
by the Seagnoid (Expert) (46.3k points)
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