Niantic Campfire

It doesn’t make sense to me how my group can fill up with 3/5 then other groups start filling up and I sit at a gym for 30 minutes. Make your matchmaking prioritize the oldest lobby first so people aren’t wasting their time.

Despite all the terrible things and the criticism towards this app, it’s actually helped me a lot during go Fests, though it’s hard to get raids from home so getting raids while sitting down on my couch is a huge save of energy of gas. Therefore I think this app should get a lot more attention than it has

First off it’s great this app finally exists however they really should do a better job with it. The UI navigation at the bottom is incredibly difficult to use. In the preset messages in the raid “chat” lobby they have the “sending invites” directly next to “sorry I’m leaving” and I hit that once and everyone left my raid. I get notifications all the time of people posting things in the feed, but when I click on them, they never show up. I’ve hosted raids on this app and sometimes the right time will completely time out. It only gives you one minute to accept, which is a little ridiculous because if you’re bored and fighting a grunt, you have to exit out of that. I do like how it automatically accepts friend request for raids. I just wish they did a revise of the whole app.

Before I had Niantic Campfire I couldn’t get anything in raids but as soon as I found out about Campfire I could now get a lot of legendary and mythical pokemon but campfire should add a feature where you can host a dynamax, gigantamax, and shadow raid

This app is super useful don’t get me wrong but it’s always signing me out whether it’s a week or 30 minutes between signing back in

will not show Any Gmax raids anywhere.

I can SEE raids and events nearby, but when I’m not available in person, this app is completely pointless. Which is most of the time.

I’ve been playing Pokémon Go off and on since 2020 and this winter after my finals, I had nothing todo so I decided to redownload the game. It’s incredibly fun but it can be really boring without friends. Campfire was a little bit tricky to figure out at first, but I eventually figured it out and made tons of friends in my area to catch Pokémon with!

This app is mainly for finding a group for events in person (though it does try to hide non community ambassador events). This app is not really a raiding app!!! Its main function is not that!! It also is official and directly synced to Pokemon Go/and their other games

Unless you know precisely where one of your friends posted, you’ll never find it, because the only way to find it is to go through the initial notification, or zoom in on the map. When you have friends around the world for Scatterbugs, it’s impossible. No post feed. Notifications are frustrating, as well. Hit or miss. Messaging is clunky. I still use the app because there’s no alternative but not many friends do because it’s so outdated compared to the game itself.