New Missions Submission Backlog
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Not sure if the reviews of new missions are being put on hold or the reviewers are just on a holiday, but I have not been getting any responses from my submissions recently.
Date submitted: 2nd August 2020
Today's date: 16th August 2020
Time lapse: 14 days
Is anyone from Niantic looking at this? Cause it takes time and effort to design + submit and if missions don't get reviewed, it doesn't get published and agents won't get to do them. Also, there are less mission authors than mission do-ers.
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Same situation.
Date submitted: 27th July and 3rd August 2020
Today's date: 16th August 2020
Time lapse: 20 and 12 days
Well, there's probably an increase in submissions from all the people who spent six months complaining they couldn't login to the tool. Of course approval is going to slow down for a while.
i created my first banner ever on 8 aug. 2020. I'm very excited to see if it will all get through. So probably i have to wait till september ?
Does the queue also works like wayspots reviews? like some area's are in limbo, other are processed faster?
So far, since getting access I've made a 1 off mission that took 5 days to get approved and a 6-part banner that's had 1/6 approved after 4 days, 3/6 4/6 and 5/6 approved after 9 days, leaving 2/6 and 6/6 still in review... given that I submitted all parts within about 10 minutes of each other, so I guess the answer to your question "Does the queue also works like wayspots reviews?" is yes... we have also have no idea how this works either!
I believe they are on holidays, so they can't review us.
Niantic has said that the next global challenge, Optima, would likely be Trekker or unique missions completed, both of which would encourage agents to make banners / mosaics.
I’ve encouraged my communities to make missions for the above, so that adds to the amount that Niantic are reviewing, plus new people have been granted access by the new login update, so that will increase the backlog.
i hope u are right the aura storm.
It's not like this before July FS. Usually, it only takes 1-3 days before it had a decision (No decision had been released on Saturday and Sunday, probably not working hours).
My last new mission review was July 31
My last edit review was Aug 11
Seems like there have been no new mission reviews in August
I had new missions approved on 7th and 12th August.
maybe less ppl approve now holidays or something ?
On July, I submitted a banner of an August festival but already August is almost gone...
@NianticBrian @NianticCasey anything on missions pending since July?
Thanks
This huge delay is not explainable by more submissions. There are people waiting for nearly 2 month now for a review. 😩
I submitted a Banner for #HelpBeirut... And I'm pretty sure it will not be up for First saturday. 😭
@NianticBrian @NianticCasey could you PLEASE leave a comment regarding mission review delays?
Is your crew overwhelmed, on holidays or ill at home?!?
Well I guess it's probably too late to submit a new Christmas banner already...
Like many others, I submitted a banner some weeks ago to the missions.ingress.com portal, but apart from the acknowledgement emails, nothing since but silence. I have a couple more banner candidates, but I don´t see the point anymore.
Niantic is in the very fortunate position that their users still volunteer to create content for Ingress, even without a "badge", so the very least they could do is to respond to this thread.
I asked the help desk to give any feedback about this issue many times.
But their answer is, everytime,
"the Missions are reviewed by a different team and we are unable to intervene in the review process. Sometimes the decision on Missions can be delayed. However, the Mission will be reviewed and the decision will be notified to you in due time."
So, @NianticBrian @NianticCasey, could you please give us any comment about this issue from your side?
We lost a complete month of missions, I don't remember an issue like this before. The worst part is it did coincide with the solution to tool running hot issue. To me, this lag is affecting deeply how new authors see the process and demotivating them. 😤
atleast we could get an update what the problem is or not, must be frustrating for those having missions waiting for approval or not..
Its now one month of nearly no feedback to mission submissions, can you please give us an update? @NianticBrian
Any update on this @NianticBrian been waiting since early August.
Let's be real, when do we ever really get timely answers from Niantic (with the exception of ofer2 or ace sometimes being active)? With the most recent changes, it seems like they fix one thing and break ten. If only we had someone in Niantic who was more proactive in responding to community concerns. 🤷♂️
Can we get a response please @NianticBrian@NianticCasey@NianticAkshay@NianticAustin @NianticAkshay ?
What is going on? We submit missions, doing free work on a system that causes us a lot grief which we soldier through and now we don't even get the missions reviewed. It used to be 2 weeks pre-whatever improvement...now, it is more than a month. The regression is horrendous.
We are trying to help the community who do missions and this is very discouraging.
haaah Ok 🙈 first mission of 18 approved. i hope next ones will follow quickly now.
Just submitted a 24 mission banner this evening. Commenting here and will report back when they start being approved.
Not submitted a mission for a while so unsure whats going on for this. Hope they're processed soon!
Still no news, nor missions approved...
expect no news this week they are on holiday niantic.
My missions are slowly being approved, but not notifications at all.
I have submitted two banners a month ago (Aug 08), now I see one mission was approved on Sep 03, but I haven't received any email notification ...
I got 3 missions approved but no e-mail. This is from 8th August submissions. I have a huge backlog still and waiting again to see if @NianticBrian @NianticAustin can let us know what is going on. 2nd August submissions still has no response.
It's already a pain submitting missions. With this long wait times, don't think I will bother submitting missions in the next month's anymore.