Do you score a unique visit when something you submit goes live?
A friend and I observed just now that we have purple rings on portals that we submitted but haven't been back to. In my case I submitted it last week about 30 miles from home, and in his case it's on another continent and went live after he left.
I don't have an accurate record of my unique visits so I don't know if I got an uptick for that or not. I'm guessing that either you get a unique visit when a submission is approved or there's a (small, IMO) bug in rendering the circles.
[Edit: This appears to only happen for relatively recent portals. The one that was approved on February 15 2021 has a visited circle for me, but one from July 2020 does not. My friend's was approved on January 7 2021 and does. Someone else reports that one approved in October 2020 does not.]
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From what we (collectively, here) can tell, portals that went live some time in December 2020 is added to your visited (but not captured) portal list. Someone even opened a bug in the bugs section about this, though I think it is the correct behavior.
This update acknowledges the unique portals uptick.
It is the right way. Probably implemented when the beta tests started, so I guess nits safe to state that anything approved since the layers will be auto visited (I have almost a hundred in queue😎).
Ah, thank you! Apparently I read the announcement too early in the morning and the words didn't sink into my sleepy brain.
I think it's a good change.
I need to find the old ama with Andrew where I suggested this change.
Here it is
There was mention somewhere else that this is not retroactive, so early January onwards.
It would be nice, but I imagine a script comparing every agent's created portals to their visited ones would be complicated
Probably not as complicated as computationally expensive. Since most people probably go visit their submissions pretty quickly I doubt it would have much benefit to many people. I travel a lot compared to most people and I think it would net me 15 additional visits. I suspect the vast majority of people just submit things local to them.
For me everything worthy I had locally is already submitted, so I on the contrary submit mostly when I'm far from home. Out of 136 my portals, about 100 are outside of my city.
Thing is though, I still want the capture stat so I'm still going to go out and visit my newly created portals (once lockdown ends). It's nice that there is a wider range of ways to get the visited stat to increment.