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Please make 1 chanel or what it calls in Google chat for Ingress information same as Telegram and we cant write only see the information Niantic share about Ingress.

@NianticBrian @NianticThia

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  • ArkFangArkFang ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's called the News channel in your Comms. No need to disseminate information beyond the Scanner, Telegram, and the new way they're doing it via the website.

  • MargariteDVilleMargariteDVille ✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2022

    I see where they're coming from. There's https://community.ingress.com/en/categories/release-notes and https://community.ingress.com/en/categories/events and then Niantic Social, Twitter, and now Campfire. And whatever platform is the Ingress chatbot.

    AND none of those are where you need to go, to find the 2022 Second Quarter events. There's the popup on Ingress, but always at the last minute (no time for planning) - and always when you have an unrelated plan in your head that you're trying to execute before you forget.

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  • MoogModularMoogModular ✭✭✭✭✭

    Google Chat doesn't work like that.

  • Otrera35Otrera35 ✭✭✭✭

    I don't think having a Google chat for Ingress Prime is needed; we already have more than enough notifications concerning this dying game. No need to get more notifications that consume our mobile phones' batteries besides those portal scans that Niantic wants their players to do for them for free.

  • grsmhikergrsmhiker ✭✭✭

    There are already too many communication channels, none of which are effectively used to present a clear picture of upcoming events. Here in the forum, the News channel hasn't been updated since May 5, the events section is buried somewhere in the middle and is split into too many sections, and most of those haven't seen a post in a long time. Even the News channel in COMM hasn't seen an update since the Kythera results and most of the older posts are cryptic messages used for passcode puzzles.

  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭

    wow this google chat is even worse then hangouts... no thanks

  • EvilSuperHerosEvilSuperHeros ✭✭✭✭✭

    Between overall bad communication in general to currently having to access multiple data streams to just find out the normal information. It's annoying. You'd think that Niantic would get better at it over the years.

    We often see different information (or lack of information) from one of these many streams

    Website(s)

    Twitter (Niantic Labs)

    Twitter (Niantic Support)

    Twitter (Ingress)

    Twitter (Brian Rose)

    Facebook

    Telegram Channel

    COMMS News channel in App

    Ingress Forums

    Wayfarer Forums

    Other sites


    It's just easier to subscribe to news channels on Telegram, like RGNN, or Vowel(AEIOU)/Bowel Chat, or NotNianticLabs or whatnot.

  • MargariteDVilleMargariteDVille ✭✭✭✭

    Remember Google+ ...and Hangouts? I wonder how long Google Chat will be around.

  • Google Chat both is dying (outside of corporate settings) and has no proper control over channels (outside of corporate settings). It's like asking for a Microsoft Teams news channel.

    No.

  • There's reasons why Vanilla Forums is insufficient as a "primary source", but they can definitely do better by linking to the primary source (the Ingress News Blog) from other media sources, including on the forums.

  • grsmhikergrsmhiker ✭✭✭

    That would assume they actually visit the forums 😝

    Seeing as they control both the Ingress website (which in the last few months seems to be where they prefer posting) and in game news, I don't know why they don't post the same content simultaneously to both. Instead we get a news tab in COMM that is full of passcode puzzles with pictures of chihuahuas and muffins and dudes with stuffy collars.

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