Suggestions
Actually I want to suggest three things
1. Please allow us to change hometown location as well at least once in a year. (I have currently wrongly entered the hometown location by mistake please help me change it)
2. Please give importance for the person who submitted the nomination more than the one who submitted a better picture of the nomination.
May be something like this, in the image that gets featured as portal image mention the below two
Submitter - name of the person who submitted
Best image - name of the person who submitted the best image for the portal.
3. Suppose a nomination submitted by a Pokemon Go player gets accepted and the portal goes live please mention the name of the player instead of just mentioning as unknown. (If the player has allowed name to be displayed in settings)
Comments
1) "Hometown" isn't really a good system for a lot of folks. Some simply never move away from home and some move too many times to have a single place they consider "home." Changing it too frequently would remove the impact Niantic had intended, though. But for your specific situation, if you try making a Help Chat request (https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/new/help) or tag some of the Niantic mods (@NianticAaron @NianticOtoStar @NianticLC) one of them may reset your home town as a "one time courtesy."
2) Something I've thought of but never really bothered suggesting was having Ingress add a "👑" or other icon that helps distinguish who "discovered" the Portal. I think it would help credit many of the original contributors to the Portal network rather than folks like me who hopped in later.
3) When Niantic launched their "Niantic Social" account, I think a lot of us thought this would eventually happen. But it looks like they haven't, and you can't even opt out of your Agent name appearing on the Portal image like the website says you can.
I think these are great talking points, but 2 & 3 are really more Ingress QoL requires rather than for Wayfarer platform.
1. + make bonus locations quarterly at least. I'd like to go review in Oceania but the idea of being stuck for a year seems excess to resolve all nominations. Many have proposed rating-based moves too.
2. How will it be implemented? The featured list show the nomination with the highest agreement percentage afaik. Several wayspots may exist on top of another (2D map). The way I can see this happening is only if another nomination is duplicated and resolved within the timeframe (less than 2 weeks?) where featured wayspots get refreshed. And even unlikelier, cross-checking likes to determine the 'best' image takes up time too.
3. You can already see it from the oldest photo submitted.
I'd want these too but given how the apps treat Wayfarer and Wayfarer do Wayfarer, I doubt it gets implemented. Just see unresolved fixes in the AMAs and the character count in PoGO.