Why no Niantic forums?

BreenzyBreenzy ✭✭✭✭

Instead of each game having their own dedicated forums, why not just have a general Niantic forum with each game having its own sub-category?

This feels like a missed opportunity to combine all the communities and allow more cross-promotion (for free).

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  • GrogyanGrogyan ✭✭✭✭✭

    I will note here that, a number of other games have also closed their forums, or just used Discord from the beginning.


    @NianticBrian why not use Discord?


    Especially since it was noted ladt week at GDC 2024 that Niantic and Discord have partnered together.


    But also like the OP, why not have o e set of Niantic forums for all products and games?

  • joecainjoecain ✭✭✭✭✭

    niantic (lower case to show disrespect) is no longer interested in managing or dealing with the Ingress community. This is why they are farming it out to a player-run subreddit.

  • BreenzyBreenzy ✭✭✭✭

    I'd also be happy with a Discord. Just not Reddit please.

  • MoogModularMoogModular ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm laughing at the jobs available...marketing manager for every game except Ingress.

  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭

    Costs money, and they want less reason to talk to users i guess

  • Any new system implies Niantic would be involved. If they're not involved, the IUENG channel and others like it do a good job of keeping the community communicating amongst itself.

    Why create a new space where Niantic isn't present?

  • MJ78MJ78 ✭✭✭
    edited March 27

    For once, I agree with the Ingress Founders Union. 😆

  • EtaliEtali ✭✭

    I agree with this. Other Niantic games still have a forum, so categories for each game would be a relatively small burden, and it'd go a long way towards making the Ingress community actually feel valued.

    Reddit is a terrible choice in my opinion. They alienated a big chunk of their own user base last year, and there's still a lot of people who refuse to use them to this day.

  • HosetteHosette ✭✭✭✭✭

    Reddit also has some pretty broad IP-based blocks in place. For example, I can't access Reddit from work... I get a "Whoa there, pardner!" message from them whenever I try. That's quite frustrating because there's often info that could be useful for my job.

    (Yes, I'm 100% certain it's on the Reddit side. I also understand why they made this particular choice but that doesn't make it less frustrating.)

  • PkmnTrainerJPkmnTrainerJ ✭✭✭✭✭

    I can just imagine the chaos of a Pokémon GO forum.

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