Community day conversation post

[ephemera]

Hi folks - it's July's community day, and I hope Squirtle is treating you all well.

It's been a busy month in-game with multiple events and specials going on, plus the launch of trading and gifting. How's that all working out for you? Did you get lucky with an awesome shiny over the weekend? Something cool from an Alolan egg? (Thank you all for the awesome long-distance eggs!)

Comments

[soc_puppet]

Very much agreed; I mean, I could take screencaps (it occurred to me at this exact moment), but that's not quite the same.

I'd also love the option to send little messages. I probably wouldn't, most of the time, but once in a while. Today, for example, I would have sent a gift with a postcard from one of the Shiny Sunglasses Squirtle stops and a note to Get Your Shiny Sunglasses Here! for local friends, in the hopes that they'd be able to take advantage. Though I suppose I could text just as easily.

[ephemera]

I'm liking how humans will find ways to transmit messages come what may: I do my level best to send visibly "London" things to non-UK people, and when I can pull it off, literary related ones to my Oldest Friend, who has a literary bend, and there's been a spate of local people sending either "the place we just met up", "gyms you may recognise my handle from" or "here's the gym you were holding, which I just took" (that last reported, not from my own experience, but we're a multi-team Discord group in these parts so it's generally relatively good natured. )

Proper in-game messaging would be nifty, but I can also see why Niantic might think it's a nest of snakes they don't need to get into.

[soc_puppet]

Yeah, I've got a handful of IRL folks, but most of my contacts so far have been via this comm :)

Shoot, I hadn't thought of that. I can definitely see that logic now, though. Texting will be a fine substitute.