"Helpful tip to avoid drifting while preparing for a Raid"

#PokemonGO: I'm sure all of us have been to a raid where the group has to stand in 5 different places in order to reach the gym. You enter the room only to have someone yell with 10 sec left that they can't get in and that everyone needs to jump out and restart. It's a big problem, especially in areas surrounded by tall buildings.There is, however, a pretty easy way to make sure everyone is ready: Private Groups. Before you enter the lobby, have everybody wander around to get in range of the gym and then join a private group and wait at the code entry screen. Once there, walk back to the meeting point and wait for everyone else. Once everyone is at the code screen, the "group leader" creates the private group and gives out the code. The trick here is just that the game treats the code entry screen as being in the raid lobby or the raid itself and allows for significant drifting without kicking you out.Our group has been using this technique for quite a while now, and as far as I know it is not common knowledge (forgive me if it is) since almost no one we run into outside of our core group is aware of it.*Note that this is helpful even if the group doesn't want to use a private room. If you know that you tend to drift for a particular gym, then find it and enter the code entry screen. Once the group enters the public lobby, you just type in the public code to join the raid. via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2y4tXHw