While a generally great app, after making a joking comment to someone, it was taken down by a bot for "bullying and harassment", and now if I want to do anything, I have to mess with my screen zoom, and everything I open the app, I get a pop up for the incident. I can't use the app, without going into my settings to make my screen zoom in/out.
this app is great for building communities and getting connected with people in your area for raid and community days. but I downloaded this app for the remote raids, its an awful experience, both for trying to join a raid, or trying to host. wait times to join a raid is often long, and the raids are random, so good luck if youre chasing a specific boss. then hosting can be awful, because there will be 5 or more sitting in the queue, if youre lucky, maybe 2 will join, but then leave.
I opened the app, did all the sign in requirements, and everything was working fine, but the app just kept on telling me to download Pokemon Go, which I already had downloaded. It still does, and makes it unable for me to access most features for the only reason I downloaded Campfire. whenever I clicked the button, to see if I could fix it / troubleshoot, it just opened my Pokemon Go app, and didn't fix anything. Haven't been able to use it for the only reason I downloaded it.
Some useful functions, but its buggy and poorly supported. A slight change in zoom or slight shift in the view often causes items to randomly appear & disappear on the map. In-game events are often not reflected on the map, still showing the previous content that is not accessible. New features take many months to be included. New in game content (eg, new creatures) often have no image or description because they haven't bothered to add them yet.
Inconsistencies! Surprise surprise! Multiple raids that are shown aren't actually there especially some gigantamax raids. I wanted to look at area and every 5 seconds it asked me to turn on my location. Every 5 seconds is not an exaggeration... just let me look at the map without having my location on! Instead I just had to block location.
This app is ment to help you connect with other players, but the message system is so buggy it basicly wont work. I've turned notifications on and off a dozen times. I have never once been notified. So in order to use the app you basicly have to open amd close the app constantly to watch for replies inevitably give up only to then receive a reply but you have moved on to the next thing and never actualy meet up with other players. The only reason I keep it is for the raid map.
As of a recent update, the app now apparently requires you to enable WiFi scanning to find a location. The only reason this would be a requirement is if Niantic/Scopely are also getting this information. There is no reasonable functional requirement for this, it's just Niantic/Scopely trying to get more data without paying for it or offering anything in return. The app is broken and non-functional for me now.
Eta: I had to completely uninstall and reinstall to get it to allow me to join a group or w/e. And this is on steady wifi as the only active device, so I know it isn't a signal issue. How the fresh hell is this app supposed to even work? I am positive something is wrong with mine as it isn't loading quickly, and you can't do anything on it.
Too clunky to navigate with Pogo, super annoyed that I can't limit the gyms I get notifications for either. I'll help out on a flare I can get to nearby, but a 15 minute drive is not close by and I don't want to keep getting notifications for every flare that's lit in a 7 mile radius, especially when people hang out at the raid and keep lighting it. Ultimately only good for the expanded map, the chat is too disorganized to be of any use because it's not well integrated with pogo at all
Latest version has made this app become frustrating to find a certain kind of raid. Used to be that you could filter and get a list of the selected raids. Now it's only map based and very frustrating since they only show up if you are zoomed in close... and even then not all the raids show up at the same time. Bring back the list of filtered raids!
