So… is anyone else going to complain in complete outrage to Niantic about this constant lag loading from one review to the next, getting various error messages, and many other issues during this Wayfarer Challenge? It ends in only 3 days now, and I’m starting to get concerned & anxious about if I’m going to get enough reviews. I have a pinch over half (252) done so far, but most of them came from the first day when there wasn’t CONSTANT ISSUES & LAG, causing these reviews to take easily 2-4× the amount of our time to do. It’s honestly ridiculous and complete B.S. if Niantic doesn’t fix these problems soon, or end up crediting us our “medal tick” for the OPR Live medal in Ingress, even if we are a bit short of the required 500 reviews when it’s completely THEIR FAULT we end up not reaching that requirement.
Absolutely TERRIBLE. Shame on you Niantic.
Complete outrage? No. We are halfway thru the days of the challenge and 75% of the way to Tier 3 for Community rewards.
Yes, it is frustrating that you can’t make it work for you personally. But the Challenge is working for enough people to accomplish the overall goal.
I recommend that you change your Bonus and Home areas to large cities. Wait 10 minutes for the change to register and see if you get more things to review. Many people are finding edits in larger cities.
I think it’s not just this person this is happening to… I.E., respectfully, it’s not a personal problem they have. It’s happening to me too, despite that I have also switched bonus cities as suggested. It’s depressing to do reviews and have a lag that takes from minutes to half an hour for each to load. It feels like my time being taken for granted, being taken advantage of. Your statement about “the goal” doesn’t acknowledge the goal of op who obviously has the goal (as do I) of doing reviews with the system working as usual. I’m grateful for your representing Niantic in a helpful way, but I think you’re missing how miserable this challenge has been for some of us.
Help me clearing france 
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What gets me is that the whole Wayfarer site is bogged down. I get the bouncing balloon trying to load my contributions page, or the criteria tab to point something out.
True! I want to get to my prrsonal 500, but i cant get any to review. It says “well done, come back later”.
First they changed the lucky trinket reward to a super rocket radar, now they prevent having to give tiers at all.
Utter waste of time so far this so called challenge. Is the challenge trying to get the website to work or what??? Probably seen about 3 nominations so far. Rest of the time it’s not loading or claims there is no nominations to review when I know people have submitted stuff.
Hi @Craftskyxx and @PeteC303
It’s is highly recommended to make use of the unlimited ability to change your home and bonus location to get more reviews.
Did you both have already checked out this thread?:
Review Locations
As I live very close to Brussels and that location is mentioned in the list, that should not be the problem. That is my home location. I have 3 nominations around Brussels that are still in queue after weeks. I was hoping they would get picked up with this event.
Wayfarer itself says you cannot change your home location.
Today I did it maybe 20 times. That’s only while the challenge is running possible.
If you want to reach the top tier it’s maybe not avoidable to jump around.
In the comment section of the mentioned thread there’re tipps what is actual reviewable. I try to find as many as possible for the community 
I hate to ignore this, too, but you definitely can change it!
Once you have reviewed those that were there when the list was posted, you need to move on.
I do find it a bit odd that niantic started this challenge so close to a weekend which they dont work so they wont be able to work on a fix for these issues for half of the challenge. would’nt it of made more sense to start on a monday and end the next monday so these problems can be fixed?
I am NOT lying about my home location. I do not want to get banned! Any app that wants you to lie about your location for reviewing in a challenge should question itself deeply.
I added a 2nd location. And even when I get a nomination, this happens.
it’s not lying, make use of the tools available to you and consider it a second bonus location for the duration of the challenge
Very very very laggy for me since Yesterday.
The Wayfarer Help pages say not to set the Home area to the area where you live/play the game.
Hometown and Bonus Locations are self-chosen addresses that influence which Wayspot nominations and edits are assigned to you.
Suitable Hometown and Bonus Locations could be where you grew up, where you went to school, or any other location with which you’re familiar. Your active play location is always factored into assignment, so Hometowns and Bonus Locations should be set away from where you usually play.
The size of a Home or Bonus area is about 150 km across, so your Home and Bonus areas should be placed at least 150 km away in order to be effective.
as others have pointed out, you are not saying that where you put the pin is your home.
i get it though. i would not participate in the Russia challenge years ago because i did not want to say that i had any familiarity with the area. and i still don’t jump very far out of the United States because i am just not comfortable reviewing overseas.
As stated in the official Niantic post regards the challenge…
“Home and Bonus Location Setting: These location settings are self-chosen addresses that influence which Wayspot nominations and edits are assigned to you. You can change these at any point throughout the challenge window and will be able to reset it once more within 48 hours for the end of the challenge.”
This. I reviewed 7 in 1 HOUR. Just waiting until everything is loaded while playing on another device.
As if changing whatever location (yes, at least 150 away and yes, waited 10’ after) is changing this horrible performance.