ALL scanners still down. Niantic wins this one...
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There's about 6 regulars at my office, and we used to do regular circuits during lunch and after work. That's a fair number of passes consumed in a working week.
Since the update, pass purchase took a dip. Not as a boycott, but simply because cost/time/enjoyment ratio is not worth it. When you need to juggle family with a professional life, the reality is no one can be bothered with raids in their current state.
Last time hacking the API took weeks. Nobody should be surprised that new scanners haven't popped up yet. It might happen in the future, or it might not.
I really hope Niantic brings out their own map at some point. Would assume that they could derive it pretty easily from the Ingress Intel Map, with some additional coding to also make it function as a raid map.
Don't vote if you don't want scanners at all. This is more a question to see if people would need to bother with scanners if PMG had a raid scanning tool inside it. It should be simple too if on your Gym Screen lke you have the Pickachu on upper left for having a poke mon at that gym put an colored (tier) egg on lower rght for an egg at the gym and some random Battle Symbol for a raid going on there.
I don't see Niantic winning if they don't soon give us raid maps themselves like the online ones (I really hope that!). The ingame "raid nearby" is awful. The Level 4 and 5 raids have dropped to about 25% of normal activity in my town after the raid maps went down, because we now have so short time to gather raid groups. Some of the most popular gym's raids in our town can only be discovered if someone goes there and if someone do, it's often too late for most to get there in time. Since most in our community are playing Go mainly because of the raids, it feels like just before G2 where almost nothing happened in Go. If we didn't have Research, good events nearly every week, Community Days and G4 to look forward to (hopefully this summer) our community would die very soon for sure. Our community was blossoming/doubling just before the raid maps went down - I fear now our community is slowly dying again. Niantic needs to act and fast.
