Yeah, I've talked about this before. We're going to retire these achievements. I just want to get enough notice out that if users are like 100 away, they can get the last little bit.

People are going to hate it, but these achievements are so much worse for the system than they are good for it.

The entire achievement. Having lots of items on your account that you aren't using / are never going to use isn't really behavior we want to encourage!

Those strains also hurt the entire site. When it takes a minute for a page to load for you, that's also putting strain on the database which is how all of the other users get their information too.

This isn't a "I chose my bed, and I'm laying in it" kind of situation. It's affecting the performance of the entire site.

We aren't taking away the ability to collect holiday items, or hoard items. We're just taking away the incentive to do it.

Yes, we've decided that it's better for the site that way. It sucks for people who've been working toward it, but it's better for the majority of users.

Right, I did make them and now after years of watching what it does to the database I've decided I was wrong to add them, and it's not in the sites best interest.

I'll run a few tests to see how data intensive that is, if it's only checked once a day or something it could be fine. It's just running through ALL of your items on the site is super hard to do.