Munzee crashed

The  Munzee site crashed. On Easter weekend. Probably because the special easter egg munzees are a big hit and everyone is going out collecting their extra points.

The site owners have announced that the server has fried and they need to upgrade to bigger and better servers, which could take a month.

Geez, the writing was on the wall. There were several server problems in the last month. The game is growing exponentially. Too bad they couldn't take action in anticipation of the growth and the huge increase in activity on a Special Munzee weekend. They create special extra-point munzees to increase play yet aren't ready to deal with the increased play.

The problem with Munzee - the servers go down so does the game. It can't be played offline. When the servers are down you can't capture, you can't deploy you can edit deployed munzees. You can't do anything. With geocaching, as long as you have downloaded geocache gpx files to your gps you can play. You can go hunt geocaches. Later when the site is back up you can log your finds and add comments. Same for letterboxing. Print off or save the letterboxing clues and you're good to go. The letterboxing Atlas Quest site just about never goes down. I don't recall there ever being a problem. The webmaster even encourages people to try to break the server on Plant a Letterbox day.

I think I'm going to take a break from Munzeeing (although I had this great trail and some creative munzees I wanted deploy today -- maybe I'll wait until mid-May and see if Munzee has the kinks worked out).