In my day we didn’t need to submit portals through [Redacted], in my day there was only one way to submit portals and it was called EMAIL NIANTIC AND HOPE THEY READ IT! That’s right! You’d stand in front of some statue and keep taking photos of it and emailing them to Niantic until it appeared in the scanner! That’s the way it was and we liked it, we loved it!

Anyways, today they lost all our photos:

Agents, we are investigating an issue preventing photos from appearing in less than 3% of Portals. This only affects legacy Portal submissions which were submitted via email. All photos submitted via the Scanner are intact.

— Niantic Support (@NianticHelp) April 25, 2019