Anyone else having trouble with people not joining when you host?

Yeah.

Here's the dirty trick: Put mission setting to an apex mission. You'll get joins almost instantly. Then discuss with new teammates what you wanna do.

Or be a huge prick and switch it back to what you want and to hell with their apex mission.

Yes. I used to be able to make the lobby private then make it back public and get people in but now that doesnt work anymore

Yep. Tried to host so Stealth Grid would actually work and it was a ghost town.

Same tried hosting with a friend last night and no one joined. After 15 minutes we said screw it and did a couple bronze matches.

Same here.

I just start the map and do the first wave solo on bronze and silver (depending on character). You have higher join priority if the game is already running, works most of the time. That is likely why nobody joins your lobbies, running games sucking them up as somebody leaves them. I also think there is a queue system more than a match making system, so when you host you enter last in the queue for players that has decent ping to you (as host).

Same problem. Set static IP on PS4, opened recommended ports, still nothing.