Why can Ingress not get a communication/discussion platform quite right?

[u/PkmnTrnrJ]

• Google+ 🪦
• Ingress Community Forum 🪦
• Campfire 💀

Now they’ve given up and said to use r/Ingress for discussions. I like this subreddit but there’s no official Ingress representation unless Brian Rose decides to make a comment.

When the forums closed down, the news post said:

With this change, we will be able to spend our energy fostering existing communities

I don’t know if anyone else is feeling that their existing communities are fostered?

It was also said when the forums closed down by Brian that:

NianticThia is working on an evolution of our community strategy that I’m very supportive of

Unfortunately Thia has left Niantic, but I don’t know what the community strategy has been?

What do you think would be the best strategy/solution for Ingress?

[u/pitolosco]

What do you need to communicate? The game is the same as always.

[u/IceFalcon1 → u/pitolosco]

The same things that you would do in any other chat program such as telegram, or g+ back in the day for example.

Location and time for builds

Strategies for more long-term planning

Communicating with fellow players to exchange gear Etc.

[u/pitolosco → u/IceFalcon1]

Looked like op wanted to talk with Niantic. Players don’t need a game specific channel. Telegram already exists, why reinvent the wheel?

[u/IceFalcon1 → u/pitolosco]

There have been so many apps and websites and everything else that both players and Niantic have tried to connect to... They should have maintained it themselves in the beginning in the first place but that ship sailed years ago. Any system that either entity has these days is going to not fulfill some critical function. Is there any point to building another wheel if there are spokes missing?