Niantic Social...
So, Niantic Social beta has come to ingress. My first 2 concerns (as this is just a beta)
There appears to be nothing stopping people who have too much time on their hands from creating a vicious group to wind up the other faction.
Example below, this can be made as a public group, and as long as you pass the profanity filter anything goes
My second concern, there is no option to turn off the push notifications from niantic Social? It appears as a push notification the same as if your portal is under attack. Do we now have to mute notifications from the game and miss attack notifications?
Third thing, I have selected (only me) in my visibility, however other agents are able to find me from my contacts, I had assumed selecting only me would mean no one could find me.
I await replies to these questions and welcome any additions from other agents.
All the best
Shottix
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Another unasked for addition.
Unsure how this can compete with tools already in use globally.
Completely agree.
Time wasted on features we didn't ask for, while we still struggle with latency issues....
#ThisIsTheWay
You mean. You wanted to deploy 8 resonators in a row? Surely not 😉 need that invalid resonator code half way through or its just boring...
I can see how there will be many groups just created to spam and troll players....
Yes. We would love to think it won't happen, but you could quite easily create one called "frog farm" or similar and plonk it on a secret farm of portals. It will happen, it will be abused.
I completely agree with your view. Actually, adding this feature is laughable because it's just short of adding a dating feature...lol. What's next? Niantic Harmony, the AR dating app? 😂🤣😂
A full-pledged dating app inside Ingress. Ingress Prime: The Romance.
I joined this junk (I know, i shouldn't have), and now all i want to do is permanently opt out of this mess.
Niantic Social is game agnostic. From what it seems, there's another team working on this outside from Ingress.
Well that team should be helping the ingress team then :P
That's not how development works though
I know, was just being silly ( :P :P )
There's a team working on ingress?
The reliable Amazon servers perhaps? Well, it crashed last week, kaputz!
Keep having my visibility reset to "Everyone" even though I selected only me... Just another problem with this thing. Also no option to remove myself from it.
I can't use my Agent name as my display name because apparently it's just chock-full of mature content despite being my Agent name, and also my in-game name in the other available Niantic apps. Considering some of the names I've seen elsewhere, this is super-weird.
Is there a way to remove the "Set up Niantic Social to DM%@" reminder on the agent's profile page if she/he doesn't want to use the Niantic Social feature? The reminder adds clutter to the agent profile page.