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Can we get a placeholder for Lab Caches until GS desides what they want to do with a API? So the PGC stats and the GC are the same.
in Feature requests by Bigmada (520 points)

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We will make some sort of workaround, but it's a huge task. It is on this years roadmap, but it's unlikely that we will make that schedule. So to be realistic, I wouldn't hope for it to appear until the beginning of the next year.
by magma1447 (Admin) (241k points)
selected by Bigmada
That would be great. Looking forward for it. Thanks!
Hi
Any new about this project
Sorry to say that there isn't. It is still a very high priority, but we have not managed to find the time for it. The only thing I can say with honestly is that I hope for it before the end of the year.
It would be nice if we could get some kind of update about the progress and/or planning about this ...
Nothing has happened the last 6 weeks, as expected. Rewriting the Profile stats and adding several things is high priority. Lab caches might follow after that.


Sadly the fact is that we spend almost all our time on support. I would say that is 80-90% of what I personally have done the last 2-3 weeks (no offense meant to this question). Sure, some of those support questions lead to smaller bug fixes and corrections as well.


But honestly, we do not understand the fuzz about lab caches. We don't know if they will stay or they will end up like the "geocaching challenges" which were completely removed, including every track of that they ever existed.

Implementing a way where some adds them to their data and the rest don't isn't really our style. We want everyone to have comparable data, to be fair.

Most don't even consider them geocaches and a lot of geocachers has asked Groundspeak to remove their lab cache finds from their accounts because they really don't like them and don't see the point. I also know of a lot of people who has logged plenty of them from several hundreds of miles away. Sure, cheating is possible with other geocaches as well, but at least with a physical container and a cache owner there is the possibility to follow up on it.

Then, even if adding them, it would only affect the number of finds, which is a very very small part of everything we do.


On the other hand, this question is being asked regularly, which then shows that some users really wants this. If we didn't see this, we wouldn't even consider implementing it.

PS! I Have 71 labs found myself, and couldn't care less about increasing my number of finds from 10450 to 10520. Of those 71 I have logged, there has been less than 5 worth even seeing.
I understand your priority but on Geocaching.com count Labcach to the statistics
If Groundspek should choose to stop these I do not believe they will delete them.
For unlike the Challenge you mention counter these with their Stats, The Challenge did not count to the Stats
Seems like a hot topic again (Leap Day, Megaevents, Lab caches) and I found also some so is there any progress?
Great stuff, but it's 2016 now. Hope it's still on the roadmap, and closing in? ;-)
It is definitely not forgotten, that's all I can say right now. Keep your expectations high and hope for sooner than later and you might find yourself lucky.
(cryptic answer, I know)
I would like to add something and though my comment might be out of the normal it is my situation.  I had one day on my streak this year that all I found was a Lab Cache.  Geocaching counted that cache and that day as a continuing of my streak.  MyGeocachingProfile has a way of reflecting my Lab Cache finds that keeps the rest of my finds in the proper order and my streak intact.  Yet as a paying member of Project-GC my streak is shorter.  My find count is lower.  This needs to be fixed for multiple reasons.
Oh just checking in.
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