Pokemon GO players have a lot of different goals to chase down from reaching max level, to completing the Pokedex, to earning unique badges. Visiting and interacting with different in-game Gyms around the world helps players add to that list of badges and many trainers have been working hard to earn gold status with their local Gyms over the summer. During that quest, one Pokemon GO player may have just discovered a serious limitation of the Gym badge system.

At this point, we're unsure if the progress on those old Gyms is lost, though that does seem unlikely. Hopefully, the game is just set up to display the most recently visited 1,000 Gyms and the information on any others is stored somewhere on the game servers.

Of all the current bugs plaguing Pokemon GO players, this is admittedly not a very serious one for the majority of players. It would be very unfortunate if the progress on the old Gyms truly did disappear, but that has yet to be confirmed. The original poster plans to revisit some of the missing Gyms from his account soon and check to see if they are still at their previous level when they reappear. Hopefully Niantic will respond with an explanation soon, as well.

Check back for updates and we'll report out after more testing has been conducted or when there is an official press release to share. Until then, good luck out there, trainers!

Pokemon GO is available now on Android and iOS devices in select regions.

Source: Reddit