Gyms need 30000 badge xp to reach gold.

Fight a pokemon in gym . 3000CP blissey give you 30 badge XP. Now become 60 badge XP.
Put a mon in gym. 100 badge XP now 200 badge XP.
Fight a raid in that gym 1000 badge XP become 2000 badge XP.
Feed berry i think is 10 badge XP now 20 badge XP .

Easier to reach gold gym status.

Yes . no more gift drops if you have 5 in your inventory . Have to keep sending them to friends to get drops from pokestop and gyms.
I now just run thru my friends list and send them out whenever i receive gifts. Ppl open them and they might or might not send you 1 back but thats up to them la. I send as much as i can get because it will drop and fill it up to 5 anyways.

These few days their 2nd gen event so larvitar,pupitar spawns are quite commonplace. But at this stage almost everyone have 1k plus of larvitar candies and a few good or perfect Ttar already.

Nowadays with friends and trading . Bags are full of lousy pokemons that want to do trades to see if they become lucky or better IV. Everyday time spend on the game increase. Very pressure . Want to delete straight feel sayang . But no time to do so much trading. Easily pokebag full . Making me fustrated.

Womder how you guys deal with these problem that Niantic create for us.