[elthran]

I'd be really interesting the see that graph extended to to left - what was the traffic like before the 3 paws "bug" was first introduced.

I definitely feel that a significant amount of the drive to use the 3rd party services was due to the fact that you couldn't realistically hunt down any of the pokemon that show up on your radar.

[agar]

Yes, the lack of a functional Nearby feature - either integrated or with a third party app - really affects motivation while playing.

I was out walking today and saw an unknown Pokemon silhouette in my Nearby list. All I could do was shrug and hope I'd run into it (I didn't). Previously I would have gone significantly out of my way to find it, adding mileage to my walk - which I understood to be one of the design objectives of the game.

[xorcist]

Not only must the three steps have been buggy, the whole "nearby" list is useless and/or wrong. Two friends walking together, with the same exact GPS position on the maps, can have vastly different nearby-lists, sometimes without even one entry in common. How is that even possible?

[aleksei]

It could be that, since the nearby listing holds only 9 entries, that there are more Pokemon nearby and the query to display them is unordered.

[curiousgal]

http://i.imgur.com/RLc4i9V.png