Fitbit will discontinue the open groups, challenges and adventures functions on March 27

Fitbit will end support for the community features challenges, adventures, and open groups on March 27. The company says it is doing this to ‘streamline parts of the app’. Before the features become unavailable, users can still download their data.

The social features were “of limited use,” Fitbit said in response to The Verge. No further explanation for the discontinuation of the services is given. Users can share their data of these functions will continue to be exported until March 27, the Google subsidiary said on its forum.

The ability to ‘race’ with Fitbit users will be available on March 27
discontinued.

The ‘challenges’ feature allows users to invite friends to certain events, such as a competition to see who can take the most steps in a day. In ‘Adventures’, users can take a virtual tour of famous locations as they reach their step goal. The trophies users earned from these two features will also be lost on March 27. It is still possible to compete with friends via rankings and to earn badges with personal achievements.

The open groups feature allows users to unite in the Fitbit app around a specific topic, such as healthy eating or pregnancy. From March 27, users can only connect with other Fitbit users via the Community forum.

In addition to these social features, Fitbit on April 20, it also pulled the plug on Fitbit Studio, which allowed developers to develop apps and digital watch faces for the platform. It is still possible to create such software for Fitbit OS via the command line interface.