85. Hope Springs Eternal

Wayspotters - A Niantic Wayfarer Podcast

Published 3rd of September 2023

✅ We're HUGE in Hong Kong!

✅ Chris has Wayfarer News

• Route stats are live for your created routes, my first route has been walked 1700 times!

• Wayfarer was down for 4 hours, no indication as to why.

✅ TOPIC #1 - When do Waypoints show up in-game?

• Pokemon Go: The POI map is typically updated once per day. We commonly call this “The sync”. Historically the cutoff time has been around noon or ~2 hours prior to the sync. All waypoint approved prior to the cutoff will become stops if eligible at 1:50pm, now this has been known to be delayed about 30-ish minutes from time to time.

• Ingress now also uses a daily “sync” system versus the immediate addition to the game board when a nomination is approved. This sync typically occurs around 6:15pm and seems to be based on the UTC. What’s interesting, is the cutoff time for Ingress is like 12:02pm

• Other Niantic games seem to follow a similar pattern to PoGo with their own cutoff times.

• #JusticeForPikinBloom - SerAmanada makes an appearance

✅ TOPIC #2 -Hope Spring Eternal

• GoFest season is over! Time to turn the calendar and begin a new Niantic Season
• Wayfarer on Thursday was down for a few hours and I think we were all hoping for some BIG changes with the maintenance
• We want you to remain engaged with Wayfarer, here's how.

Be patient - give yourself time to review

• Be ready to do some research

• Don’t be afraid to have google translate open for noms not in your language,

• Be on the look out for abuse, does it look funny or out of place?

• Understand, there will be coal. It’s part of the deal and don’t freak out

• Try to put yourself in the spot of the person that nominated the POI

✅Wayspot/Coal of the Week

Funny News Story of the Week - https://apnews.com/article/snake-toilet-home-arizona-69468bc279d5ac12b63656784a2d1cd4

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Coal of the Week Arrangement: Chris Bell

Intro Music - Game Over - Danijel Zambo - Music Vine

Break Music - Hard Trap Samples, Heavy Trap Drum Loops ... - Loopmasters

Outro Music - Itty Bitty 8 Bit - song by Kevin MacLeod - Spotify – Web Player

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