[image] Wayfarer Roadmap 2025-2026 News & Announcements Hello Wayfinders, We’re incredibly excited to share our new Wayfarer Roadmap for 2025-2026. This roadmap is a testament to our commitment to a more rewarding Wayfarer experience for all current and upcomi…

[image] the menu item is already there https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/new/submit right now it doesn’t do anything

I don’t think that is new but is the obvious place to put a new Nominate via Web.

Oh I didn’t not mean to imply that this was new. I was pointing out exactly this, that the perfect place to put this function already exists.

As with everything, the success of this will be determined by how it’s implemented. It’s great that the team is undertaking big projects like this. Here’s hoping everything works out!

All jokes about the map aside, can we appreciate all the Wayfarer ambassadors and Niantic staff for listening to the community and providing great communication and plans? I understand the system might not be perfect, but it’s clear that the staff and the people representing Wayfarer are trying to …

[image] RGTGO: huge disparity between rural and city players I failed to see your point. If a city is already crowded with Wayspot, wouldn’t that make it harder to post a good Wayspot, or even motivated by it? I found myself posting more on rural than on city, but that’s probably how my co…

A lot depends on what the leaderboard shows. But a critical point is that it is described as opt in. So it will be a self selecting group of wayfinders that want to take part and therefore not representative of the wider wayfarer community. ( no idea what proportion will want to take part)

I’m in the group of not liking the leaderboard, but if some people want it, I don’t see the issue. Some people are more competitive than others, and I have no issue with that.

The disparity is not created by the leaderboard, the disparity is already there, the leaderboard will just reveal it. The rural region player will be able to compare his wayspot output with the output of player from neighboring city region. We already know what’s going to be in the leaderboard, th…

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RGTGO October 2, 2025, 6:05pm 57

Bad idea, it’s just going to emphasize even more so the huge disparity between rural and city players. This time there will be concrete evidence provided by Niantic.

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