*🎈*NIANTIC SUPPORT 📱

Don’t feel like shouting in to the void of ~~a website owned by a Nazi~~ ~~Twitter~~ X when you have a Niantic game issue?

The Niantic Support team have now set up an official Instagram page which you can follow here!

*📍*FOURSQUARE PORTALS

You may remember that Niantic did several imports to some countries using Foursquare data, making photoless Portals and PokéStops appear.

The Ingress team decided to remove all of these from their map last year.

A user recently asked on the Wayfarer forums about restoring one to the game as they had added images and details to it before it went away.

NianticAaron stated this was not possible.

https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/appeal-foursquare-migrate-wayspot/74444/7

*🦠 COVID-19 TEXT*

If you’ve been Wayfarering for a little while, you will remember when some users tried to get Wayspots approved at their homes (which clearly didn’t meet criteria) during the COVID-19 lockdowns & restrictions all around the world.

This led to certain words being unable to be added to Wayspots or used in nominations such as COVID-19.

We can confirm this restriction now seems to be lifted so if there are murals, artwork or other Wayspots that would be better with this in their description or title, you’ll now be able to submit the edits needed.

We are receiving reports of a particular e-mail being sent out to some Ingress Agents.

In these e-mail, the recipient is invited to sign up to the Wayfarer Explorer - VPS Activator Pilot, described as an "opportunity to elevate your scanning and exploring experiences".
Chosen Agents, who have been selected by their "outstanding track record in scanning" and "as a reward to their contributions to the Wayfarer community", will be granted additional rights to activate VPS points of interest making them interactable via the AR features of Niantic games.

By scouring the sign-up form, we can observe that participants will be expected to submit 10 scans for each Activation Request filed, Niantic will not check the amount of scans submitted and Participants are expected to follow this requirement in good faith. Participants who do not meet this requirement can be removed from the Pilot at Niantic's discretion.

We are looking into more information about the VPS Activator Pilot and we'll keep you updated as more details emerge.
Many thanks to Agents @arda0413 and @boffeliten!

@IUENG

*? EDIT CHALLENGE REWARDS*

We have seen reports that rewards for the most recent Wayfarer Challenge have started being received.

As is typical now with how the rewards have been sent in the last few challenges, those with only a Pokémon GO account for Wayfarer have received them firstly, we expect that those with only an Ingress account to receive them next, and those with both accounts to receive them last/closest to the 29th.

Don’t panic if you only have a Pokémon GO account and haven’t received anything yet. Check your junk and keep an eye on your emails.

*?? FOURSQUARE PORTALS ??***

Ingress Agents are reporting that Wayspots imported from Foursquare in to Ingress in Türkiye have now been removed.

In addition, Agents in Poland are reporting the Foursquare imports there have also been removed. This was not announced previously.

The Wayspots do remain in Pokémon GO as well as the Lightship/Wayfarer database.