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I had 3 nominations ‘disappear’ over the weekend 24/25 Feb. They reappeared in wayfarer a week later . But have remained’ in queue’ - even the two that were upgraded (see pic). These have now been in queue with upgrade applied for 3 weeks now. Surely this isn’t normal/working as intended (or is very different to previous experiences of wayfarer system).

My daughters also play and on their accounts- they had 3 or 4 nominations also disappear during weekend of 24/25 Feb. They reappeared the following weekend, around 2nd March, like mine. One (daughter G) put an upgrade on one sub - it is still in upgrade now - and the other daughter (daughter A) put one upgrade on a previously disappeared sub then plus also on a sub made that weekend (3rd March). Both of daughters A’s in upgrade are still in queue 2&3 weeks later, so this is also an issue affecting newer nominations as well as the disappearing/reappearing nominations.

i am therefore pointing out 3 accounts that this is happening with. It might be two or even 3 separate bugs - 1. issues affecting nominations that disappeared and reappeared as none have moved into voting since reappearing 2. Upgrades not working on the disappeared/reappeared nominations 3. Upgrades not working as expected (ie taking2-3 weeks at this point still in queue after being applied)

The affected nominations are completely stuck in the queue, with upgrades having no effect whatsoever.

There has been numerous reports of this for weeks and they keep being marked "working as intended" without acknowledging that there is clearly an issue here or explaining why some random upgrades would be intentionally rendered less than useless.

How many Wayfarers need to raise it and how long does an upgraded nomination have to be stuck in the queue before the bug is acknowledged?

Are the ambassadors aware of and raising this issue on our behalf? @Elijustrying-ING, @SeaprincessHNB-PGO, @kawin240-ING, @tehstone-ING, @Gendgi-PGO, @Tntnnbltn-ING, @PkmnTrainerJ-ING

My affected nomination was made 22/02, went missing, returned 02/03, was upgraded on or about 04/03, and is still stuck in queue 13 days later (and counting).

Others have made nominations that weren't affected by the dissapearing act at all and are still having the same issue with their upgrade doing nothing and their nomination becoming stuck.

Most nominations I made since (between 23/02 and 05/03) have been decided.

On 13/03 I upgraded a nomination made 27/02 that hadn't yet entered voting. It went into voting within 4 minutes (or less) after applying the upgrade and was decided within only a few hours (which is the typically expected behaviour of an upgrade).

Why are we being gaslit over this with clear evidence of an issue? We're not clueless noobs with unreasonable expectations. If this is "working as intended", I think we're at least owed an explanation as to why some of us are "intentionally" being penalised and robbed of the ordinary benefit of an upgrade we rightfully earned.

Hey. Someone suggested I made a new bug report for this issue: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/comment/255076#Comment_255076

Today is March 19th, 11 day after I used an upgrade for my nomination. It has still not entered voting status.

As you can see in the comment, I contacted in-page Wayfarer support, and they directed me to the (wrong?) discussion.

My nomination was submitted March 5th and I spent an, may I add hard-earned, upgrade three days later, on March 8th.

I haven't checked Wayfarer 100 times a day, but to the best of my knowledge, the nomination was never at any point taken into Niantic review. It just seems stuck there in queue, even though it has an active upgrade.

I have nominated a LOT and have a lot of active Wayspots on my hands and I have never seen this before. It always takes up to, but no more than, 5 days to enter voting after an upgrade has been placed on a nomination, and that is when we're dealing with at very new nomination. Older nominations hit voting almost immedeately when upgraded.

This is dishearting obviously and some sort of clarification on what's going on here would be very appreciated, Niantic.

Thanks in advance.