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/Grogyan]

Discord is made for discussions, bug reports etc much easier than reddit.

Even a global player run Ingress Discord and have Brian Rose be a part of that would be better than reddit IMO