The answers for Andrew Krug's October AMA have been published. Here are the most important ones in our opinion.

Ingress Prime: issues and features
• Andrew Krug has the goal of re-establishing the Beta Program by the end of October. It will be composed by around 100 people.
• Engineers are working on the issues regarding server performance during massive events. It's quite tricky to resolve if the problem affects external services.
• The original goal was to make vibration consistent across iOS and Android, it will be re-tweaked and made more subtle on the latter
• The Portal Picture orientation issue should be fixed in v2.33.1.
• A read-only view of our Inventory on the Intel map has been discussed: its priority is not determined yet.
• Apple ID login will be implemented, as per Apple request, early next year
• Niantic has a program for sponsored Wayspots, Ingress needs to continue to experiment with different ways to increase its value, both to players and to the team. The player asking has proposed the program as an alternative for paid Anomaly Participation.

Community
• The replacement for the Trusted Reporters program will be set in place shortly.
• Dark mode for the forum is being asked by the player support group to the platform vendor.
• In response to the complaint about lack of Niantic responses in the App Feedback forum section, Andrew says that Niantic is working on an updated experience for submitting bugs/feedback.

Read all the answers (including one directly involving our discussion group) at this link

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