Received A.P.E. Cache Souvenir instead of Easy Streak Star Souvenir

[+Vicious Cycle]

Today is July 4th, the second day of the Streak Star challenge. I logged a Geocache both yesterday and today. I expected to see the easy souvenir for the Streak Star challenge, but after logging my find today, I received the A.P.E. Cache Souvenir. I am located in the United States and I used the mobile app to log my find today and the pop-up notification that appears for new souvenirs showed the A.P.E. Cache souvenir. I checked my profile and it was in there as well. I came home and checked my profile on the website, and the A.P.E. Cache souvenir shows there also. I logged into the forums and it appears there are several other people who experienced the same thing. I have visited neither of the A.P.E. Caches (yet), so I have not earned this souvenir. Please let me know if I need to do anything to correct the issue. Thanks. 

Edited July 4, 2023 by Vicious Cycle

[+AxelFox]

I have the same issue.

I logged a cache this morning (Central European area/timezone) and received nothing.

This evening, just about 40 minutes ago, I logged another cache and received the APE Cache souvenir.

 

[+TiggerOnTor]

Exactly the same has happened to me in UK - Project APE souvenir received (unfortunately not likely to get to any APE location anytime soon). Current streak to 4 July showing as 126 so no gaps.

On the up side, I have received my Maker Magic souvenir 🙂

Edited July 4, 2023 by TiggerOnTor

[+ernie3tones]

I’m experiencing an issue as well, but it’s different. I re-started my streak yesterday. It shows I have a streak of two days, but no souvenir. Is it because my second day was an AL? I’m going to grab another trad just to be sure. 

[+barefootguru]

6 hours ago, ernie3tones said:

I’m experiencing an issue as well, but it’s different. I re-started my streak yesterday. It shows I have a streak of two days, but no souvenir. Is it because my second day was an AL? I’m going to grab another trad just to be sure. 

No one's received a souvenir yet.  I did a trad on each day.

[+Travelbug68]

Same here in germany. Got the APE Souvenir as well. Logged geocaches monday and tuesday.

[+j-he]

16 hours ago, barefootguru said:

No one's received a souvenir yet.  I did a trad on each day.

 

That's not true. Some (me included) received the A.P.E. souvenir - and it is still there on this evening, unfortunately.

[+Frettchenbande]

Same problem here in Germany... no souvenir received at all and today is the 4th day of the streak. Hope they will solve the issue soon...

[+Goldenwattle]

I got the APE souvenir too. I was wondering what that is about.

[LySt]

Streak of four, no APE, no Easy souvenir. Starting to wonder what the August challenge (something with multi-caches, perhaps a 28-streak of them?) will be, and whether the issue will be fixed then.

[+Team 2Cats]

Nope, nothing here too.

[+Liz-Crew]

Same here. 4 Days in a row, no APE and no Easy souvenir.

[worrellsquirrel]

Hello all,

 

We are investigating issues with the Streak Star souvenir. Thank you for your patience as we work to ensure everyone is awarded the correct souvenirs.

[+fbax]

On 7/4/2023 at 5:55 PM, ernie3tones said:

I’m experiencing an issue as well, but it’s different. I re-started my streak yesterday. It shows I have a streak of two days, but no souvenir. Is it because my second day was an AL? I’m going to grab another trad just to be sure. 

Original Blog post (20-Mar-2023) says "finding Adventure Locations will count toward earning souvenirs for the campaign".
https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2023/03/introducing-wheel-of-challenges/

[+j-he]

Finally I got the streak star easy souvenir today, but that APE souvenir is still there. Of course I could hide it, but then what happens if I actually earn it by finding an APE cache?

I hope they fix that as well and remove the erroneously assigned APE souvenir.

[Rock Chalk]

12 minutes ago, j-he said:

Finally I got the streak star easy souvenir today, but that APE souvenir is still there. Of course I could hide it, but then what happens if I actually earn it by finding an APE cache?

I hope they fix that as well and remove the erroneously assigned APE souvenir.

 

See the response in this thread.

[LySt]

It's understandable they are working on first giving the Streak Star souvenir to those who earned it, and when there are man-hours left, they'll retract the ones erroneously given.

[+j-he]

Today I'm still waiting for the A.P.E. souvenir to vanish from my list of souvenirs. Seems the fix is more complicated than one would expect. I hope Groundspeak doesn't decide, that it is not wrth fixing.

[+Vicious Cycle]

57 minutes ago, j-he said:

Today I'm still waiting for the A.P.E. souvenir to vanish from my list of souvenirs. Seems the fix is more complicated than one would expect. I hope Groundspeak doesn't decide, that it is not wrth fixing.

I reached out to Groundspeak this monring on this issue and they are still working on it. They don't have a timeline yet, but they hope to have it resolved soon.

 

On a side note, I'm in I.T. and while I'm not a programmer, I do know that trying to retroactively make changes to code that's already in production can be very tricky. I'm sure they're testing out code to make sure they don't cause more problems when they push out the fix.

[+thebruce0]

Yes, when the algorithms for souvenirs are custom coded for specific statistic accomplishments, and only additive - that is, on posting a log it returns true so reward the souvenir - you can't just 'reverse' it without double checking pre-reward statistics, unless the souvenir state pre-reward was recorded in a changelog. But then you need to re-run the check to cover any possible legitimate changes between mistaken-reward and legitimate reward.  It all depends how the backend was programmed, and from prior discussions about souvenir issues, it doesn't sound like it's intended to be reversible.

[+j-he]

Seems like it is fixed now. The A.P.E. souvenir is finally gone from my souvenirs collection. Glad, that they resolved it finally.