Niantic Campfire

Campfire is part of Niantic's attempt to push local activities in Pokémon Go, but it's missing a lot of functionality. Though intended to encourage playing with people nearby, there isn't any distance slider for you to define "nearby". Because of this, I keep getting notifications from flares on the other side of the city, which really undermines the value of the app. Being able to set a distance radius would be a quick fix, but won't solve the problem - it needs user-defined local areas.

This is amazing, an even better if would be the ability to know when your local gyms have live raids. For example, I am very close to a gym but never see the raids until it is too late. If I could select specific gyms and save them to my profile. Anytime one of my chosen gyms has a raid, I would like a text or alert so I can decide if I want to take part. The join raid host buttons need to be at the top. After the change,I didn't raid for a while as I was unable to find the join or host button.

Was hoping this would be a Niantic app that wouldn't be 1*. Downloaded to connect with the people I've been playing pokemon go with for years. I can't use it yet, because I need to be invited by someone with the app. But to ask someone to invite me, I'd need to message them on the app. Good work Niantic. You can't even copy a chat app...