I hope ambasadors gets some kind of flair on the forum, with some kind of identifiable graphic/symbol. Some kind of image that would make it clear who is one despite language barriers.
I know you’ve all been waiting for this moment with great anticipation and believe me, the feeling is mutual. Since the early stages of planning for the Wayfarer Ambassadors Program, I’ve been filled with excitement for all of the amazingness that will come to us (you and the Wayfarer Team) through this collaboration. So, without further ado, please help me give a big warm welcome to our very first, global group of Wayfarer Ambassadors!
Tntnnbltn
Hey, I’m Tntnnbltn from Australia. I first got involved in Wayfarer back in the Operation Portal Recon era, and have been submitting and reviewing for four years now.
Why I chose to become a Wayfarer Ambassador
Niantic games have introduced me to so many new and awesome places, both at home and afar. I want to see the Wayfarer program continue to grow in a meaningful way so that others can share similar experiences.
What am I looking forward to the most about being a Wayfarer Ambassador
At times, in the past it has felt like there hasn’t been clear opportunities for communication between the Wayfarer user base and Niantic. One of the things I am looking forward to as Wayfarer Ambassador is getting to represent the views of the community while working with Tintino and the team.
Tehstone
I'm tehstone in Ingress and Pokémon GO. I've been nominating waypoints since 2014 and reviewing since 2017. For the past few years the Wayfarer community has been my online home and I'm excited to have a small role in shaping its future!
Why I chose to become a Wayfarer Ambassador
Being a part of the Ambassador program is a chance to make use of the knowledge I've gained in my nearly 5 five years involved in Wayfarer and put that knowledge to good use shaping the future of Wayfarer.
What I am looking forward to the most about being a Wayfarer Ambassador
I'm most looking forward to collaborating on improved new Wayfinder experiences for nominating, reviewing, and learning with the Wayfarer Community.
Gendgi
Hello all, Gendgi from the USA.
Why I chose to become a Wayfarer Ambassador
I have always been passionate about advocating for eligibility and resources to new Explorers. When the program was mentioned, I was excited to see what it could be.
What am I looking forward to the most about being a Wayfarer Ambassador
I'm looking forward to helping people in new ways, be it helping with nominations they are struggling with, helping discover new potential, or providing feedback to Niantic in areas that need improvement to better help the Wayfarer community.
Quartzleo
I'm a long time Pokémon GO fan and urban explorer based in Panama. Over time I've grown to become a fan of Ingress as I learned more about the Wayfarer platform. Wayfarer has made me visit new places and meet all kinds of people which is why I want to keep exploring.
Why I chose to become a Wayfarer Ambassador
I chose to become a Wayfarer Ambassador to help improve the experience of the player base by encouraging exploration and education, and help reviewers understand criteria so as to build a strong community and improve the quality of our submissions.
What am I looking forward to the most about being a Wayfarer Ambassador
I'm looking forward to learning everything there is to offer about this community, our strengths and opportunities, playing my part in the team to create the experience we all want together as reviewers and make a positive impact in the day to day of the players.
fr34kz
Hello, I am fr34kz, I am Indonesian and currently reside in Bali. My first encounter with Niantic games was on the early release of Ingress back in 2013. I got the invite to the game from my boyfriend back then. At first I'm not really interested in the game but I always accompany him when he is playing, and just play as it is. That is until I joined Ingress in Bali back in 2017, it was 13Magnus Reawakens. I met so many agents from around the world, got to hang with them, planning, involving, executing the game play during that Anomaly, it got me hooked. My main game has and will always be Pokémon GO, it is more of my comfort zone, but I still hold onto Ingress and play it casually.
Why I chose to become a Wayfarer Ambassador
I chose to become a Wayfarer Ambassador as I wanted to contribute more to the game environment and help people understand the importance of a good environment for an AR game that opens the door of improvement by involving their player.
What am I looking forward to the most about being a Wayfarer Ambassador
My vision of being a Wayfarer Ambassador is to build a tight community, the one that I always encounter during all those Anomaly experiences. Where communities come together, get to know each other, share, improve the game life and just have fun together.
AgentMAenlight
Hello, I play Ingress, Pokémon GO, and Pikmin Bloom. I am Japanese and live in Japan. I've loved to travel, and playing Niantic games and joining Niantic Wayfarer has accelerated my love of travel even more.
Why I chose to become a Wayfarer Ambassador?
To summarize the complaints, opinions, questions, bugs, etc. of people from Wayfarer, to communicate smoothly with the Niantic Wayfarer team, and to make Niantic Wayfarer better. Also, Wayfarer Community and Wayfarer Support are only in English, but I live in Japan, where English is not the native language and people are hesitant to communicate in English. I want to support these Explorers as much as I can.
What am I looking forward to the most about being a Wayfarer Ambassador
Wayfarer systems will be better, and many Explorers will be able to join the Niantic Wayfarer without any frustration. I hope this will lead to more Explorers. The more Explorers, the more diversity, and the more Wayspots will be discovered. If Explorers who are experts in a particular field join Niantic Wayfarer, the Wayspot descriptions will be more complete. If someone likes to take pictures, Wayspots can add good pictures better than before.
DanielGuco
Hola, DanielGuco from Mexico!
Why I chose to become a Wayfarer Ambassador
I chose to become an Ambassador because I enjoy Wayfarer a lot and I think I can make a difference. I have friends that reach out for advice and I enjoy helping and giving feedback.
What I am looking forward to the most about being a Wayfarer Explorer
I’m most looking forward to participating with the other Ambassadors, test products and provide feedback!
BrightonDragon
Hi, I live in Brighton and Hove, a city on the South coast of England which is a vibrant place with two universities and plenty happening. I also spend time on the Gower which is in a rural part of South Wales and in Murcia in Spain. I am retired, having worked as a senior manager in publishing and mobile phone technology in London. I enjoy exploring our historic city and am forever discovering new places both here and elsewhere in the UK and abroad. Sadly not much abroad for the last two years due to COVID! I enjoy playing Pokémon GO and Ingress.
Why I chose to become a Wayfarer Ambassador
One of my interests, which frankly I enjoy as much as playing the games themselves, is in spotting new potential Wayspots and there is a special satisfaction about getting something really unusual and interesting accepted by the community. The Wayfarer experience has undoubtedly improved, the recently introduced appeals being an obvious example. However, in common with other participants, I believe there are still issues, and being involved in addressing these is what prompted me to get involved with the Ambassador program.
What I am looking forward to the most about being a Wayfarer Ambassador
I will enjoy being at the cutting edge of new Wayfarer developments and will appreciate having an input. It will also be a pleasure getting to know the other Ambassadors - in my part of the world I know plenty of players, but I do not know anyone else who is active in the Wayfarer programme.
MaestroTino
Hello, I’m MaestroTino from Mexico and some of my hobbies are video games, design, music, and photography.
Why I chose to become a Wayfarer Ambassador
To show the importance of exporting and good practices to the Mexican community and to the whole world.
What I am looking forward to the most about being a Wayfarer Explorer
I hope to learn the best practices, participate in the exploration phases and collaborate as much as possible.
Akceptor
My name is Akceptor. A software engineer from Ukraine with a faith that software can make people's lives better. And computer games are software too :) I started playing Niantic games from Ingress in 2012 I guess. You probably remember those old fancy Motorola Droid phones which came with the Ingress pre-installed. One of my reasons for me to join Wayfarer Ambassadors: helping people to create content for other people so that the next generation of gamers will have new places to explore. Ukraine is developing really fast, we got a lot of new interesting places both in distant locations and just in the neighborhood. What I want to do is just help to discover them.
Why I chose to become a Wayfarer Ambassador
To help people with content creation for new people and potential gamers. To help build communities around those games and content. Just to promote world exploration regardless of the distance you travel. Why just post pictures on Instagram when you can submit a Wayspot and leave a better digital track for your followers?
What am I looking forward to the most about being a Wayfarer Ambassador
Ability to share my knowledge on the Wayspot network (discuss nomination categories, propose new ideas, help people to decide). Advocating for the community. Just meeting a new friends who have the same passion to exploration
We are all so very excited to kick start our first meeting where we will start planning for the year, setting community goals, and collaborating on how to best support you all, our Explorer Community! You may be wondering about the last two spots and in full transparency, some folks we were hoping to get a response from did not get back to us and we must continue moving forward. What this means is that we will continue to invite applicants to fill those two spaces until the end of this week and then close it for this round. We will let you all know about the status once we have more to share.
Lastly, in the next couple of weeks you will see the Ambassadors will have a special identifier in their name here in the community similar to the admins, see them sharing their previous and newly gained knowledge of Wayfarer, and in the next month, an announcement about some exciting project they’ll be leading to support our community! In the meantime, we ask that for the next couple of weeks, please allow them time to settle in and get ready for an exciting year!
Thanks for asking :) as mentioned in the second to last paragraph of my post, "You may be wondering about the last two spots and in full transparency, some folks we were hoping to get a response from did not get back to us and we must continue moving forward. What this means is that we will continue to invite applicants to fill those two spaces until the end of this week and then close it for this round. We will let you all know about the status once we have more to share."
Congrats to everyone selected! I know a couple of you and I look forward to getting to know everyone else. hopefully the ambassadors project can do great things in the next year, I'm really looking forward to it.
Congratulations! I was hoping to see more folks from the East side of the world but hopefully in the near future, we'll see representation for Europe, Africa, and more of Asia in general.
Congrats to those who were accepted! I already recognise a few of you from here and r/NianticWayfarer, but I'm looking forward to hearing more from the rest of you as well :)
Congratulations to our newly minted Ambassadors! It's been fascinating to read everyone's intros. I believe we can expect great things from this group as they represent our community. This will be a fun year, good luck!!
I was going to post the gif of the neutral planet guy saying "I have no strong feelings one way or the other" but I can't work out how to post gifs in here 🤣🤣
I know the first three names from their help on Discord, and am very excited these are the kind of people you chose! Congrats to all the ambassadors, and I am looking forward to more communication now.
A many congratulations to everyone selected. I look forward to working with everyone in the future. Here we are all one team rather than working against each other like we do when we play the games. Here we are all working toward a common goal. To better the platform for the games that we love. I truly congratulate everyone selected. I’m so happy for you guys! I can’t wait to work with each & every one of you looking forward. And with everyone else as well. I personally have always commonly used advise from many of those listed, and others I personally don’t know. But that’s fine. We just haven’t crossed paths yet & I look forward to it. I have been playing for a little over five years & I have taught a many of new wayfinders in that time. Many who were still learning but wanted to help in submitting things within my community & those scattered throughout the state that I live in around me. I missed the deadline to apply for this due to work. But honestly it’s for the best because at the time, it just wasn’t meant to be. I am so happy for all of you guys! Take this time to celebrate. Very exciting! I am proud of all of you & to everyone who took the time to apply. It takes all of us to make a difference & that is what we are here for. Stay awesome everybody 😎 🤩
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Are we there yet?
Hello Explorers,
Apologies for the delay. We are still working on confirming the final candidates. Believe me, I'm as excited to announce as you all are.
-NianticTintino
No need to wait... I'm ready.
Do we have a new estimated time for the announcement to tide us over?
When will you announce the final Wayfarer Ambassador candidates?
"Yes"
Should those who applied be checking their emails again? 😂
I hope ambasadors gets some kind of flair on the forum, with some kind of identifiable graphic/symbol. Some kind of image that would make it clear who is one despite language barriers.
Hello Explorers,
I know you’ve all been waiting for this moment with great anticipation and believe me, the feeling is mutual. Since the early stages of planning for the Wayfarer Ambassadors Program, I’ve been filled with excitement for all of the amazingness that will come to us (you and the Wayfarer Team) through this collaboration. So, without further ado, please help me give a big warm welcome to our very first, global group of Wayfarer Ambassadors!
Tntnnbltn
Hey, I’m Tntnnbltn from Australia. I first got involved in Wayfarer back in the Operation Portal Recon era, and have been submitting and reviewing for four years now.
Tehstone
I'm tehstone in Ingress and Pokémon GO. I've been nominating waypoints since 2014 and reviewing since 2017. For the past few years the Wayfarer community has been my online home and I'm excited to have a small role in shaping its future!
Gendgi
Hello all, Gendgi from the USA.
Quartzleo
I'm a long time Pokémon GO fan and urban explorer based in Panama. Over time I've grown to become a fan of Ingress as I learned more about the Wayfarer platform. Wayfarer has made me visit new places and meet all kinds of people which is why I want to keep exploring.
fr34kz
Hello, I am fr34kz, I am Indonesian and currently reside in Bali. My first encounter with Niantic games was on the early release of Ingress back in 2013. I got the invite to the game from my boyfriend back then. At first I'm not really interested in the game but I always accompany him when he is playing, and just play as it is. That is until I joined Ingress in Bali back in 2017, it was 13Magnus Reawakens. I met so many agents from around the world, got to hang with them, planning, involving, executing the game play during that Anomaly, it got me hooked. My main game has and will always be Pokémon GO, it is more of my comfort zone, but I still hold onto Ingress and play it casually.
AgentMAenlight
Hello, I play Ingress, Pokémon GO, and Pikmin Bloom. I am Japanese and live in Japan. I've loved to travel, and playing Niantic games and joining Niantic Wayfarer has accelerated my love of travel even more.
DanielGuco
Hola, DanielGuco from Mexico!
BrightonDragon
Hi, I live in Brighton and Hove, a city on the South coast of England which is a vibrant place with two universities and plenty happening. I also spend time on the Gower which is in a rural part of South Wales and in Murcia in Spain. I am retired, having worked as a senior manager in publishing and mobile phone technology in London. I enjoy exploring our historic city and am forever discovering new places both here and elsewhere in the UK and abroad. Sadly not much abroad for the last two years due to COVID! I enjoy playing Pokémon GO and Ingress.
MaestroTino
Hello, I’m MaestroTino from Mexico and some of my hobbies are video games, design, music, and photography.
Akceptor
My name is Akceptor. A software engineer from Ukraine with a faith that software can make people's lives better. And computer games are software too :) I started playing Niantic games from Ingress in 2012 I guess. You probably remember those old fancy Motorola Droid phones which came with the Ingress pre-installed. One of my reasons for me to join Wayfarer Ambassadors: helping people to create content for other people so that the next generation of gamers will have new places to explore. Ukraine is developing really fast, we got a lot of new interesting places both in distant locations and just in the neighborhood. What I want to do is just help to discover them.
We are all so very excited to kick start our first meeting where we will start planning for the year, setting community goals, and collaborating on how to best support you all, our Explorer Community! You may be wondering about the last two spots and in full transparency, some folks we were hoping to get a response from did not get back to us and we must continue moving forward. What this means is that we will continue to invite applicants to fill those two spaces until the end of this week and then close it for this round. We will let you all know about the status once we have more to share.
Lastly, in the next couple of weeks you will see the Ambassadors will have a special identifier in their name here in the community similar to the admins, see them sharing their previous and newly gained knowledge of Wayfarer, and in the next month, an announcement about some exciting project they’ll be leading to support our community! In the meantime, we ask that for the next couple of weeks, please allow them time to settle in and get ready for an exciting year!
Safe Exploring!
Exciting to meet all the new ambassadors.
Though @NianticTintino, those are only 10 of the 12 that was said to be announced. Is 10 the new number of ambassadors or will there be 2 more coming?
Thanks for asking :) as mentioned in the second to last paragraph of my post, "You may be wondering about the last two spots and in full transparency, some folks we were hoping to get a response from did not get back to us and we must continue moving forward. What this means is that we will continue to invite applicants to fill those two spaces until the end of this week and then close it for this round. We will let you all know about the status once we have more to share."
Whoops, can't believe I skimmed over that part. Thanks for answering.
haha no worries, made me do a double take ;p
Congrats to everyone selected! I know a couple of you and I look forward to getting to know everyone else. hopefully the ambassadors project can do great things in the next year, I'm really looking forward to it.
Let's GO!
Objection! Tehstone is 16
(this isn’t a serious post- it’s a discord meme)
Congratulations! I was hoping to see more folks from the East side of the world but hopefully in the near future, we'll see representation for Europe, Africa, and more of Asia in general.
I hope I can be of help!
It’s all part of my plan to turn this into a Wayfarer + Futurama forum.
Congrats to those who were accepted! I already recognise a few of you from here and r/NianticWayfarer, but I'm looking forward to hearing more from the rest of you as well :)
Congrats to all - I hope it’s a a fun journey.
and thanks to @NianticTintino for making the decision to make this update whilst settling the last 2 places. A useful update.
Congratulations to our newly minted Ambassadors! It's been fascinating to read everyone's intros. I believe we can expect great things from this group as they represent our community. This will be a fun year, good luck!!
I was going to post the gif of the neutral planet guy saying "I have no strong feelings one way or the other" but I can't work out how to post gifs in here 🤣🤣
Thanks for support :)
I'm happy to be a part of something gr8!
Congrats to the people selected, I recognise a couple of names and know those I recognise are fairly good to discuss stuff with
Now mist important question, what do they do?
Hope this Will work out! 🙃
I know the first three names from their help on Discord, and am very excited these are the kind of people you chose! Congrats to all the ambassadors, and I am looking forward to more communication now.
A many congratulations to everyone selected. I look forward to working with everyone in the future. Here we are all one team rather than working against each other like we do when we play the games. Here we are all working toward a common goal. To better the platform for the games that we love. I truly congratulate everyone selected. I’m so happy for you guys! I can’t wait to work with each & every one of you looking forward. And with everyone else as well. I personally have always commonly used advise from many of those listed, and others I personally don’t know. But that’s fine. We just haven’t crossed paths yet & I look forward to it. I have been playing for a little over five years & I have taught a many of new wayfinders in that time. Many who were still learning but wanted to help in submitting things within my community & those scattered throughout the state that I live in around me. I missed the deadline to apply for this due to work. But honestly it’s for the best because at the time, it just wasn’t meant to be. I am so happy for all of you guys! Take this time to celebrate. Very exciting! I am proud of all of you & to everyone who took the time to apply. It takes all of us to make a difference & that is what we are here for. Stay awesome everybody 😎 🤩
Congrats to everyone selected.
Let's hope that you enjoy your new positions.
Lets hope it goes well for all.
Congrats to all who were selected! @NianticTintino amazing selection of candidates! The program is definitely in good hands