Main Gas Buddy Page

I hope that people will still post prices b/c I use it to plan where to buy gas. But I don't drive too much anymore, so I don't post as often as I used to. I've been stockpiling points to do a big dump for the drawing but I'm not sure they're going to have that anymore. I tried to access it last night but couldn't.

I don't care about the leaderboard, but a local buddy emailed me yesterday about these changes and she was bummed about that.

I don't do apps, so I hope I'll be able to access the website from my computer.

This is "earth shattering" for a lot of people.

GasBuddy was started here in the Twin Cities and some of the old timer Twin Cities members also helped build this site. Not me, but some I've "known" for years. And one in particular who was a dear "buddy" of mine but is no longer alive.

In addition to the site itself, we got a lot of helpful information from each other in the forums. Much information that saved me a lot of money. But that's been gone for years now.

SAD!

Entire favorites list is gone.

I didn't even know there was a blog.

There is no current gas card drawing and all of my points are gone. Many years worth.

As of 3:00 p.m. CDT Friday 8-8-24 the only state site still working is oregongasprices.com. I would strongly suggest if there was any info, such as old msgs or buddy lists, you want to preserve, now's the time to do it on the Oregon site. When that one's gone, I'm sure everything is gone. For one particularly long thread in a DM I wanted to save I just opened every msg in position on the list, then C&P'd the expanded msgs into a simple text file. It goes fast.

I agree with others. When they rolled out the app and began dismantling the website, it was apparent they wanted to eventually do away with the legacy websites. They don't care about the people who freely volunteered their time to building the MSL, nor do they care about the community that they destroyed by doing away with the forums and whiteboards. (Thanks to CampKohler for founding this site.) The only "leaderboards" on the app are your local boards, which are just who got the most points, and who posted the most prices over the past 30 days, not the all-time leaders. Who cares? It was interesting to occasionally look at the overall, local, half-year, and consecutive days leaders.

I was nosing around in the app a while back, and they've left all the "badges" you earned over the years for different challenges, including the "legacy" badges from the original web-based site.  Did they just forget to delete those?  They were cute, but I didn't really know what to do with them.  They look like the little badges Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts sew on their sashes.  Whoever dies with the most badges wins?

I've continued to use both the website & app. The app is faster and available away from my laptop, but there are so many ads scattered throughout the app that make the pages jump around while the larger ads load. Countless times I've gone to confirm or change a price only to tap on the price, then be redirected to some ad's site because it's bumped the price I was about to change halfway down the page.

Trying to edit stations on the MSL in recent years has been next to impossible.  Our local stations have been swapping brands for ages now, yet when I've slogged through 3 or 4 pages of details, just to rebrand a station, I've gotten to the end only to find my edit wasn't applied.  Someone said the photos of stations are gone, too.

ETA:  Your overall rank on the leaderboard is still listed under your points-earning section on the app as is your consecutive-day streak.  I wouldn't be surprised to see those disappear, too.