Wayspotters - A Niantic Wayfarer Podcast

Published 23th of February 2024 ✅ Happy Birthday Chris! ✅ The Latest Wayfarer News! ✅ Topic #1 - Let's talk edits ✅ Topic #2 Black History Month (Thread on Forums) https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/52181/february-is-black-history-month-show-off-the-poi-that-celebrate-black-history-and-culture ✅ Wayspot of the week ✅ Coal of the Week ✅Dad Jokes! Special Shout Out to our E...

Published 18th of February 2024 ✅ A little bit of Wayfarer News (Finally) ✅ I'll be back, I'm going to get a haircut ✅ Selling? I was told there would be no selling in Wayfarer ✅ Jamal made a forum post and we read from it. ✅ Listener Feedback and emails. ✅Wayspot/Coal of the Week Jamal's daughter started a PODCAST! - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yappathon/id1720669701⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Go f...

Published 11th of February 2024 ✅ The Latest Wayfarer News! Finally! Guess who's back on YouTube?? Niantic has joined the Overture Maps Foundation Cohort 3 Wayfarer Ambassador Applications are now OPEN! ✅ Pre Topic - Removing wayspots ✅ Pre Topic -We read some responses to the poll on Spotify ✅ Topic #1 Supporting Information ✅ Wayspot of the week - Stick FIGURE! ✅ Coal of the Week ✅Dad Jok...

Published 4th of February 2024 ✅ A little bit of Wayfarer News (NOT!) ✅ How do you like your steak? ✅ Drinks in the bathroom? Is Jamal an animal? ✅ Topic #1 Who is eMiLy? Why is she so sassy? ✅ Topic #2 Can we talk about maps? ✅ What did Chris write on the forum? https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/51528/removing-wayspots-an-open-letter-to-niantic/p1?new=1 ✅Wayspot/Coal of...

Published 28th of January 2024 ✅ Arnold the Terminator! ✅ The Latest Wayfarer News! Finally! ✅ Topic #1 - Is AI or (ML) taking over? What is Machine Learning? How does Niantic use Machine Learning for Wayfarer? What is Niantic doing to ensure the model is learning the right things? My Problems with the current way Machine Learning is used. A Suggestion ✅ Topic #2 - Removing Wayspots from the M...

Published 21st of January 2024 We are very happy to be joined by SerAmanda and LizzyBDarcy on the show this week. Two superstar players from the Georgia Wayfarer Discord. ✅ A little bit of Wayfarer News (NOT!) ✅ TOPIC #1 The invasion is coming from Georgia ✅ TOPIC #2 Playground set, one too many? https://www.reddit.com/r/NianticWayfarer/comments/1999ai1/why_was_this_rejected_im_new_to_this_but_...

Published 14th of January 2024 ✅ A Wild Lachlan Appears! ✅ A Recap of Season Two ✅ Recap of our guests ✅ Recap of our favorite moments/episodes ✅ People LOVE the YouTube! ✅ What have we all accomplished? ✅ Wayfarer Edits - Lachlan rants! ✅ Wayspot of the week ✅ Coal of the Week ✅Dad Jokes! Special Shout Out to our Executive Producer! KatettheKonz! #Yeah Where can you hear Lachlan? Right...

Published 7th of January 2024 ✅ A little bit of Wayfarer News ✅ TOPIC #1 Can we keep the game board fresh? Remove Replace Leave alone ✅ TOPIC #2 Evangelizing Wayfarer Queues are at an all time low Motivation is at an all time high Go tell a friend? Please? ✅Wayspot/Coal of the Week Jamal's daughter started a PODCAST! - ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yappathon/id1720669701⁠ Join the Ger...

Published 31th of December 2023 ✅ No News, but that's not bad news. ✅ 2023 A Year in Review ✅ We go month by month and break it all down ✅ 2024: A look ahead ✅ Chris' goals for 2024 ✅ Jamal's goals for 2024 ✅ Goals for the show in 2024 ✅ Wayspot of the week ✅ Coal of the Week ✅Dad Jokes! Special Shout Out to our Executive Producer! KatettheKonz! #Yeah Go check out Chris' articles ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Published 24th of December 2023 ✅ A little bit of Wayfarer News ✅ TOPIC #1 Aye Aye Captain Challenge has ended The boys break down the challenge Jamal gets really excited when the USA is added ✅ Topic #2 We got a Survey! The boys go over all the questions from the survey They also tell you how they answered the questions Chris is still mad about the Wayfarer App ✅Wayspot/Coal of the Week #Spon...

Published 17th of December 2023 ✅ Welcome to EPISODE #100 ✅ The latest Wayfarer News! ✅ We review the rewards for the Global Wayfarer Challenge ✅ Topic #1 - The AMA's!! ✅ Wayspot of the week ✅ Coal of the Week ✅Dad Jokes! #Sponsored Get 20% off + Free Shipping ⁠⁠⁠@Manscaped⁠⁠⁠ with the promo code "WAYSPOTTERS"at ⁠⁠⁠www.manscaped.com⁠⁠⁠ #ad Special Shout Out to our Executive Producer! Katett...

Published 10th of December 2023 ✅ A little bit of Wayfarer News ✅ How do you post things to Facebook? We chat with Elffromspace, Admin of the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/share/K3yFN5WoNBccDSRX/?mibextid=CTbP7E ✅ Another review challenge is coming! Aye Aye Captain - Global Reviewer Challenge Japan! South Korea! Taiwan! ✅Wayspot/Coal of the Week #Sponsored Get 20% off + Free Shipping...

Published 3rd of December 2023 Right off the top! #Sponsored Get 20% off + Free Shipping ⁠@Manscaped⁠ with the promo code "WAYSPOTTERS"at ⁠www.manscaped.com⁠ #ad ✅ Season 3 is fast approaching! We are looking for your favorite moments from Season #1 and Season #2. Share them with us and you may appear on the show! ✅ Spotify wrapped: Top Podcast for 270 fans. Listeners went up 166%. We doubled ou...

#Sponsored Get 20% off + Free Shipping ⁠@Manscaped⁠ with the promo code "WAYSPOTTERS"at ⁠www.manscaped.com⁠ #ad Published 26th of November 2023 ✅ Happy Thanksgiving (USA) ✅ A little bit of Wayfarer News ✅ Let's go Swimming! ✅ Chris and Jamal are thankful ✅Wayspot/Coal of the Week Funny News Story of the Week - https://www.indy100.com/viral/cnn-reporter-field-of-turkeys-story-humour-reactions-...

Published 19th of November 2023 Right off the top! #Sponsored Get 20% off + Free Shipping @Manscaped with the promo code "WAYSPOTTERS"at www.manscaped.com #ad ✅ The final AMA for 2023 is coming! You have until Wednesday, November 22, 2023 at 12:00pm PDT to get questions inAMA Community Post: December 1, 2023 https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/49052/ama-november-2023 ✅ Take car...

Published 12th of November 2023 ✅ Chris has Wayfarer News ✅ Road Verge? What's Road Verge? ✅ Is it private Property or not? ✅ In Voting to In Queue to Upgrades people are BIG MAD! ✅Wayspot/Coal of the Week Funny News Story of the Week - https://apnews.com/article/deer-restaurant-noodles-beloit-wisconsin-fe12419691c69d16e1955eae2e9b9540 ✅Wayspot/Coal of the Week Please visit https://www.lovon...

Published 5th of November 2023 ✅ The Reviewing UI has been updated! ✅ All nominations are back in queue? - https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/comment/236931#Comment_236931 ✅ We have two very special guests! Seaprincess Elijustrying ✅ Topic #1 The New UI ✅ Topic #2 Ambassadorial Conference ✅ Wayspot of the week ✅ Coal of the Week ✅Dad Jokes! Special Shout Out to our Execu...

Published 29th of October 2023 ✅ Jamal has another RANT! ✅ Chris has news...maybe? - Monster Hunter Minute is EPIC ✅ Aquablast64 has a great idea for improving Wayfarer, we dig in to the idea ✅ Monster Hunter Minute!! ✅Wayspot/Coal of the Week Funny News Story of the Week - ⁠https://apnews.com/article/phillies-alligator-service-animal-wallygator-c1a1b8614ad670d3ed30cf00fabdb57a⁠ ✅Wayspot/Coa...

Published 22nd of October 2023 ✅ No news is good news? ✅ Monster Hunter Minute ✅ Topic #1 Approvegate bites back Elephant #1 - Niantic needs to be more transparent Elephant #2 - Tell me again how you didn’t do anything wrong? ✅ Topic #2 Supporting Information, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly The Bad The Meh The Good ✅ Wayspot of the week ✅ Coal of the Week ✅Dad Jokes! Special Shout Out to o...

Published 15th of October 2023 ✅ It's the Wayfarer Discussion Discord's Birthday! ✅ Ready to participate in the review contest? ✅ We welcome ScrawnyMeowith1 from the WDD ✅ Monster Hunter Minute!! (New Segment) But first, the latest Wayfarer News! Rewards are still going out for the challenge, I don’t have mine yet but they have until the 18th Appeals July / August ✅ TOPIC #1 - What is the WDD...

Published 8th of October 2023 ✅ Chris has news! The challenge is complete, we’ll dive into it more deeply in a bit. The appeals backlog seems to be fairly clean? I don’t have any outstanding right now, I’ve seen appeals from as close as July 2023 being resolved. So if you’ve got older appeals you might want to consider reaching out to Niantic, as it might be stuck. ✅ Topic #1 Debriefing the Wayf...

Published 1st of October 2023 ✅ Inside Out ✅ We have a guest! ✅ Chris has news But first, the latest Wayfarer News! Edits are back! Just in time for the Wayfarer challenge Niantic has introduced a couple of quality of life updates to edits There’s a toggle now to highlights the differences in the edits And a handy new report button for abuse! We’ve moved on to France, the Wayfarer community has...

Published 27th of September 2023 ✅ We asked for a Wayfarer Challenge, here are the details! ✅ Italy, France and German were the winners! Timelines:  Challenge Kick-Off Italy: 09/27/2023 at 12:00pm PDT France: 09/29/2023 at 12:00pm PDT Germany: 10/02/2023 at 12:00pm PDT Challenge Ends  10/04/2023 12:00pm PDT Reward Distribution  10/05/2023 - 10/18/2023 Here is the global rewards table: https://us...

Published 24th of September 2023 ✅ Chris has news! The day we’re recording, is NBA All World Sunset day.  NBA all world officially shuts down today.  RIP NBA All World Edits stopped being pushed into reviews, NianticAaron said that they were looking into it Wayfarer Challenge Voting happens until Monday All Aboard - Italy, France, Germany Aye Aye Captain - South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines ✅ Topi...

Published 17th of September 2023 ✅ A Few Good Men ✅ **BREAKING NEWS** Ladder steps 1: Warning Ladder steps 2: 30 days Suspension Ladder steps 3: 90 days Suspension Ladder steps 4: 10 years Suspension https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/46628/new-wayfarer-abuse-enforcement-ladder-policy ✅ Chris has news Wayfarer challenge - When it's READY! Recap on Military Bases ✅ TOPIC #1 -...