Wayspotters - A Niantic Wayfarer Podcast

Wayspotters - A Niantic Wayfarer Podcast

Join hosts Jamal Harvey and Chris Bell for a weekly podcast dedicated to the Wide World of Niantic Wayfarer! Niantic Wayfarer provides the Points of Interests (POIs) that make these games run: Pokémon Go, Pikmin Bloom, Ingress Prime, NBA All World & More! Find us on Twitter @wayspotters or on our website www.wayspotters.com. Also available on pokemonprofessor.com

Episodes

March 24, 2024 62 mins

Published 24th of March 2024

✅ Lots of Wayfarer News! - There's a BUG!

TOPIC #1 - Hello Niantic, are you there?

  • The nomination crash bug
  • Getting Niantic to do … anything.
  • Upgraded Nominations pulled into Niantic Voting

NEW SEGMENT: Tales from Canada - This week: Spring? What’s that?

✅ Wayspot of the week ✅ Coal of the Week ✅Dad Jokes!

Special Shout Out to our Executive Producer! KatettheKonz! #Yeah

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Published 17st of March 2024


✅ A little bit of Wayfarer News

✅ NianticAaron and the Trailmarkers

✅ A wayfinder says farewell?

✅ Socks and Shoes!

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Links from the show:

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Published 10th of March 2024

✅ Lots of Wayfarer News! - We get more appeals!

✅ GoFest was just announced, Wayspotters will be there!

✅ Topic #1 - Taboo Topic - Inclusion Rules, yep, we're going there

✅ What's an S2 cell anyway?

✅ Wayspot of the week ✅ Coal of the Week ✅Dad Jokes!

Special Shout Out to our Executive Producer! KatettheKonz! #Yeah

Go check out Chris' articles ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://pokemongohub.net/post/...

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Published 1st of March 2024


✅ A little bit of Wayfarer News

✅ Welcome to the new Ambassadors!!

✅ Are upgrades worth it?

✅ Voicemail from SerAmanda

Hello, are you out there?

✅ Ones Gotta Go!

Wayspot/Coal of the Week

Jamal's daughter started a PODCAST! -

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yappathon/id1720669701⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Go follow Agent X on TikTok -⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@agentx_wayfinder

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February 24, 2024 71 mins

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)

✅ Wayspot of the week ✅ Coal of the Week ✅Dad Jokes!

Special Shout Out to our Executive Producer! Katet...

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February 18, 2024 83 mins

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 follow Agent X on TikTo...

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February 11, 2024 70 mins

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 Jokes!

Special Shout Out...

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February 4, 2024 68 mins

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

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Jamal's daughter start...

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January 28, 2024 74 mins

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 Map

✅ Chris Has an...

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January 21, 2024 88 mins

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?

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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 here!

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho...

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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 Germ...

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December 31, 2023 80 mins

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 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://pokemongohub.ne...

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December 24, 2023 99 mins

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

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December 17, 2023 87 mins

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

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Special Shout Out to our Executive Producer! KatettheKonz! #Yeah

Go check ou...

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December 10, 2023 88 mins

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

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December 3, 2023 66 mins

Published 3rd of December 2023

Right off the top!

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✅ 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 our followers

✅ The Latest...

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November 26, 2023 61 mins

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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-b1943476

Join the Germa...

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November 19, 2023 69 mins

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 care using "Upload Lat...

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November 12, 2023 85 mins

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

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