So basically, it seems like the only reliable way to get into a raid is to use auto join, which can often take hours to work. The other option is to manually join, which requires you to be really fast and lucky. (See here). This is not only bad design, but also unfair, especially for people who have poor motor skills. Sure, it’s not supposed to be totally fair, but at this point the process of joining a room is pretty ridiculous.

My suggestion is to just scrap the whole idea of manually joining raids, and make it so the only way to join a raid is through what’s currently called auto-join. This would make it so everyone has an equal opportunity to get in. Then if you want, you can pay to get bumped to the front of the queue or something. As it is now, it seems the issue is that so many people use the app, so this is the only way I can see them fixing this poor design.

Edit: I’m not “blaming the app”. I’m just saying the design they made for the app originally isn’t working anymore and isn’t scalable when you have massive amounts of people using it. There will always be a supply and demand gap given the fact that most users are not constantly near raids, if that were the case, you wouldn’t need the app in the first place. So my suggestion is to modify how the app works to work better with massive amounts of people.