Anyone seeing updates? I just checked a 3rd party site that tracks banners and see there is a bunch of new ones added today. I checked mine from 30 days ago and none have been touched.
I'm assuming we won't get an official update, response or even acknowledgement at this point, but maybe they're starting to work through the backlog... *fingers crossed*
At the moment there is a big backlog with missions. Are there any problems at the moment?
Missions are being reviewed but there is an issue where they aren’t being reviewed in the order received, as they should be. Our team is investigating and working on process improvements.
I hope Niantic Mission Teams will find a solution.
Moreover, I hope we can be able to directly communicate with the mission team. For example to send copyright/authorizations of the artists to use their works for a banner/mosaic.
After patiently waiting for two months, I can't even get a 12 mission banner up. This is getting so frustrating.
@NianticBrian can something please be done on this? It's been too long. It wasn't this broken before June 2020. Things were actually working back then. What is Niantic trying to do? Stop missions?
I've just had a mission approval! It does look like things are moving again after a 67 day wait... but it's the last part of a 6 part banner and part 2 is still waiting.
Could someone from Niantic update the community on this? You said y’all are reading it, so can you give us an update, maybe an eta, even just an acknowledgment that missions are more or less on hold?
In my case, no movement I have pending 14 , Submitted 7.30.2020, and 36 later also without evaluation. And one of the banners was commemorative for a local event of the faction that was unable to make the banner a month ago. It's a bit frustrating not having any information about the problem after so long.
Come on, looks like nobody is reviewing and approving missions.
This is how it feels having no reply or acknowledge from Niantic.
This is so frustrating, content created by agents, coming from community like missions and banners, gives another way of playing and enjoying ingress and niantic ignores this now.
Is this the end of missions and banners from agents?
I prefer niantic say this directly and not leaving all us without any solution and waiting like fools...
A reassignment of the staff to other projects like CWD sounds way more realistic than a 2-3 months worth of investigation into something that was working pretty well for years.
Note that the Support site (https://ingress.com/support) states that: "Once submitted, your Mission will show up as (In Review). Review times will vary and may take up to a couple of weeks. " A. Couple. Of. Weeks. In my case, I´ve submitted a banner of 18 missions on Aug 9. One mission in the middle was published on Sept 23. and now shows up in the scanner, and that's it. The rest is just stuck. This sounds like the new standard, but it confirms however that 1) it's possible to retrieve a mission, and 2) it's possible to publish a mission. It just almost never happens.
Niantic has said on several occasions that they want to improve their communication. This is a golden opportunity to improve it to transparantly address the problem and set expectations, so why not take it? Additionally, when the Ingress subscriptions finally arrives, this part of the product should work, or have an ETA for a fix to get back to the way it was working earlier.
I seriously suspect that Niantic is trying to crowdsource mission submission review in the future, just like what they did when they were not capable to process portal submission several years ago.
I hope not, look what happend when users got option to vote for portals, so much garbage and trash poi approved now, u want same for banners ?? single letter banners would be approved etc. they are forbidden now for a reason..
I finally got 35 mission edits approved last night, with emails! They were submitted August 8th. There is one left for the banner but it is a new submission (previously kept getting rejected so I redid it), not yet reviewed.
Finally the banner Submitted 7.30.2020 has been fully approved today. With the receipt of the corresponding approval emails. It seems that the traffic jam is starting to move again.
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Anyone seeing updates? I just checked a 3rd party site that tracks banners and see there is a bunch of new ones added today. I checked mine from 30 days ago and none have been touched.
I'm assuming we won't get an official update, response or even acknowledgement at this point, but maybe they're starting to work through the backlog... *fingers crossed*
Almost 60 days for me with an 18 part banner in limbo...
From https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/12307/iueng-q-a-sept-30-2020
At the moment there is a big backlog with missions. Are there any problems at the moment?
Missions are being reviewed but there is an issue where they aren’t being reviewed in the order received, as they should be. Our team is investigating and working on process improvements.
I have a banner in line for approval, consisting of 90 missions ... 3 missions approved in 2 months. Super niantic, I applaud you ...
Still pending :/
I hope Niantic Mission Teams will find a solution.
Moreover, I hope we can be able to directly communicate with the mission team. For example to send copyright/authorizations of the artists to use their works for a banner/mosaic.
Still waiting for 4 missions out of 18. 2 months of waiting.
After patiently waiting for two months, I can't even get a 12 mission banner up. This is getting so frustrating.
@NianticBrian can something please be done on this? It's been too long. It wasn't this broken before June 2020. Things were actually working back then. What is Niantic trying to do? Stop missions?
I've just had a mission approval! It does look like things are moving again after a 67 day wait... but it's the last part of a 6 part banner and part 2 is still waiting.
No movement on mine from 09.03.2020
Could someone from Niantic update the community on this? You said y’all are reading it, so can you give us an update, maybe an eta, even just an acknowledgment that missions are more or less on hold?
In my case, no movement I have pending 14 , Submitted 7.30.2020, and 36 later also without evaluation. And one of the banners was commemorative for a local event of the faction that was unable to make the banner a month ago. It's a bit frustrating not having any information about the problem after so long.
not a single comment in this thread by niantic that they are working and are sorry for the problems caused ?
Missions still pending since July 30.
Come on, looks like nobody is reviewing and approving missions.
This is how it feels having no reply or acknowledge from Niantic.
This is so frustrating, content created by agents, coming from community like missions and banners, gives another way of playing and enjoying ingress and niantic ignores this now.
Is this the end of missions and banners from agents?
I prefer niantic say this directly and not leaving all us without any solution and waiting like fools...
I understand that a lot of people who have worked on Ingress has been moved Catan world exploresrs game development.
A reassignment of the staff to other projects like CWD sounds way more realistic than a 2-3 months worth of investigation into something that was working pretty well for years.
Note that the Support site (https://ingress.com/support) states that: "Once submitted, your Mission will show up as (In Review). Review times will vary and may take up to a couple of weeks. " A. Couple. Of. Weeks. In my case, I´ve submitted a banner of 18 missions on Aug 9. One mission in the middle was published on Sept 23. and now shows up in the scanner, and that's it. The rest is just stuck. This sounds like the new standard, but it confirms however that 1) it's possible to retrieve a mission, and 2) it's possible to publish a mission. It just almost never happens.
Niantic has said on several occasions that they want to improve their communication. This is a golden opportunity to improve it to transparantly address the problem and set expectations, so why not take it? Additionally, when the Ingress subscriptions finally arrives, this part of the product should work, or have an ETA for a fix to get back to the way it was working earlier.
7 August submission... ticking time... 2 months are over now...
Anyone awake at Niantic? Couple of weeks?
I felt disappointed to this game.The mission whichith more than two months is not review yet.
I seriously suspect that Niantic is trying to crowdsource mission submission review in the future, just like what they did when they were not capable to process portal submission several years ago.
It would be nice if they would at least tell us if this is why it’s taking so long....
I hope not, look what happend when users got option to vote for portals, so much garbage and trash poi approved now, u want same for banners ?? single letter banners would be approved etc. they are forbidden now for a reason..
Maybe today, nearly two months since this thread was started, we’ll get a real update....
I finally got 35 mission edits approved last night, with emails! They were submitted August 8th. There is one left for the banner but it is a new submission (previously kept getting rejected so I redid it), not yet reviewed.
you lucky than me.My mission submit at 8.2 don't review yet.It seem the job of niantic is sucks.
The final missing part of my 6 part mission went live yesterday, 3 months and 5 days after the first one went live.
Two of the 18 edits I made on the 11th were just approved this morning. The last two of them I submitted, but I'll take it.
Finally the banner Submitted 7.30.2020 has been fully approved today. With the receipt of the corresponding approval emails. It seems that the traffic jam is starting to move again.
Same here !
Yeah ! B) Finally !
Me and a friend had received today and yesterday final decision by email (approval or rejection) of missions submitted on july 30th.
Maybe Niantic mission team is now working on mission by submission date order.
The rest were all approved last night. :D
Finally, I got my big banner of 36 approved today. I'm so happy and waiting for the rest
My mission doesn't review yet.I submit it as 2020.8.2