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Introducing the new Google+
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- shauder 11y agoI like Google+ a lot and wish it gained more traction.
- vvpan 11y agoHow do you use it? I am not even sure what it is...
- jbob2000 11y agoSo... a reddit-killer?
- cjcenizal 11y agoIronically, this blog post doesn't contain an actual link to Google+.
- jboy55 11y agoI followed the link to the 'read this to see how to enable google plus' and that didn't even work. I then realized I had no idea if the google plus page I was looking at was 'new' or not. I did notice that all of the random stories from people I didn't know dissapeared. All I'm left with is the pages from companies that are active on Google Plus in the attempt to give Google a social signal and sway Google's page rank in their favor. Edit: to add, those companies are friend's companies and current and former employers. These companies asked all their employees to add them and get pester their social networks to add them as well.
- abraham 11y agoThe blog post has seven links to Google+. They just go to specific pieces or streams of content which are arguably more useful to demonstrating what's good about the new design.
- bronson 11y agoCharise Strandberg via Google+ Daniel Brinneman shared this via Google+ Antonio Valdés via Google+ I see Google+'s commenting is still drowned out by sharing notifications. Google, there's a reason everyone turned off trackbacks ten years ago. It's just noise for anyone reading that page to filter out.
- DiThi 11y agoIt also happens with Tumblr, and just as bad. At least FB puts "<some people you know> and 1526 others shared this" instead of a long list of noise. In Tumblr it sort of works because nobody reads the "comments", instead some people share the content adding a note and the "comment thread" is actually a nested quote.
- Grue3 11y agoI even wrote a script that goes through every note on a post and posts all the reblogs with comments. It's technically against Tumblr TOS, but as long as I only occasionally run it, it should be alright.
- andrenotgiant 11y agoIt always surprises me that Google's world-class UX and Product teams would allow such a huge expectation vs reality misalignment. So many Youtube videos, so many blogger posts have this issue
- astral303 11y agoWell, then it isn't world-class then.
- snaky 11y agoIt depends on many things actually, especially the goals, the leadership and the social dynamics inside the team. E.g. some feature X may be chosen among alternatives due the world-class UX professional John's desire to outdo world-class UX professional Jane while Jane is on vacation.
- chintan 11y agoPlease fix the Google Groups UI - I'm sure there is more engagement/activity in Groups than in Google+ communities. I always fear when clicking on a google group link in google results. Add to this - recently some of the results go to a white-labeled community site: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/analytics/oSR62Ubf1tQ https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/analytics/oSR...
- badloginagain 11y agoDon't worry, your Groups will be assimilated into a Community, and you'll have access to all that old content once you sign in with your YouTube account.
- monochromatic 11y agoHopefully I can look forward to YouTube and every other fucking Google website encouraging me to sign in / join. Again.
- eps 11y ago> conversations around everything from Zombie Cats to Vintage Calculators Now they are trying to be a Reddit.
- sawwit 11y ago> “Let’s go” I'm not seeing it.
- dbspin 11y agoMe niether.
- i386 11y agoI'm not entirely sure what Google+ is anymore. Who is the target audience?
- rfrank 11y agogoogle spiders
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- cdnsteve 11y agoGooglers!
- morganvachon 11y ago
- pbreit 11y agoSeems like it's still drastically missing the mark on having a reason for being. Why would I use this? What would I put on there? Why there and not elsewhere?
- liquidise 11y agoExactly. To most users, "we aren't facebook" is not an effective sales pitch. As far as a comparison goes: both UI's leave me disappointed, but everyone i know is on facebook. I can think of 1 person who uses G+ with any regularity. By that measure, G+ loses every time.
- andreasvc 11y agoA "don't be evil kind of Facebook" could've been appealing. Unfortunately they're decidedly not that, with their real name policy, forced integration with other services, public profiles, etc.
- romanovcode 11y agoGoogle is as evil as Facebook, if not more.
- andreasvc 11y agoClearly. I never understood how anyone could take the "don't be evil" slogan seriously, actually. It's comic book level of ethics. We can disagree over whether they are actually being evil though, but what is clear to me is that there is a seriously worrying potential for evil with the amount of information they control through being de-facto monopolies.
- munchor 11y agoThe only times I ever used Google+ was because of the Communities. They're well designed and implemented, and they were always Google+'s strongest selling point. It seems they're taking a more Communities-focused approach, which seems like the right path for them.
- 542458 11y agoReally? I found them confusing and difficult to navigate. The two column layout makes it difficult to keep track of chronological order, and the lack of static or promoted posts means that important info is often lost several pages back. Also, I find the load times really really slow.
- toyg 11y ago> they were always Google+'s strongest selling point Uh? IMHO pictures were their strongest point. They emphasise and manage pics better than FB.
- gtremper 11y agoIt appears Photos was strong enough to make it its own product.
- enahs-sf 11y agoI'm still not going to use it. sorry.
- FreeKill 11y agoDoes it still cross link comments from other Google properties like YouTube if you post a video for example? I liked using Google+ a lot as more of a blogging platform instead of a social network, but as soon as they integrated that, it completely killed it for me. Every time I made a post with a video embedded, it would add all the horrible racist, hateful, trash comments from YouTube making it seem like those commenters were actually in my social network. I just couldn't risk that someone in my professional network might be equating the terrible commenting with me personally, so I gave up on it.
- Shooti 11y agoThey killed that a couple of months ago.
- FreeKill 11y agonice, that's a good step. I think maybe too late though for a lot of people... I had hundreds of posts over there, and I eventually deleted them all because of the change.
- lemevi 11y agoWhat they haven't fixed though is requiring your account to have Google+ to be able to comment or interact on YouTube. Until they fix that participating in YouTube in any other fashion other than upvoting videos and watching them is impossible for me. I do not want to create a Google+ account.
- tdkl 11y agoNot just the ability to comment, but modify videos to the playlist. Otherwise it's just read only if you remove the G+ account.
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- Animats 11y agoSo they redesigned the web site to look like Windows 8?
- strictnein 11y agoSo that's why that Google VP of Design hated Windows 10 so much. They had modeled this on the beautiful Windows 8.
- rogerbinns 11y agoGoogle seem to keep making worse the thing that matters most to me. What I want is to conveniently read. I want to see content, from a variety of sources. I want density. I want to catch up and be aware. It was like that in the earlier days. Every update kept reducing the amount of visible content, and severe reductions in density. Here is a screenshot of my screen - http://i.imgur.com/fM2WIVf.png http://i.imgur.com/fM2WIVf.png (1920x1200) - almost two million pixels. There are a total of 7 (yes seven) sentences of article and 5 sentences of comments. I have to click and/or scroll to see anything more. (This is their densest layout - the single column version has a total of 4 sentences.) With Reader they had a community of people who read a lot, and an interface design that worked well for doing that. They took that away. By not having access via an open standard like RSS for G+ streams, they don't even allow alternative interfaces that can address their problems. I can only conclude that the people who persevere with G+ do so despite it, not because of it. They must also be very patient and do a heck of a lot of scrolling.
- toyg 11y agoIt's not just a Google thing. Recently there was a HN thread on devmag.io -- they have the same problem. I measured it: in the same space HN gives me 18 stories, Devmag.io gives me barely 2. Unfortunately, I think Google people know and they just don't care. They don't want people who know what RSS is, people who care about information density; they are going after the Pinterest crowd, the sort of people who read Cosmopolitan, watch reality shows, and post drunken pics on Facebook.
- yoodenvranx 11y agoThe new reddit mobile page has the same problem. On the old http://i.reddit.com http://i.reddit.com I usually get 1-3 more links per page than on the new http://m.reddit.com http://m.reddit.com Who actually thinks that all that padding and those stupid navbars are a good idea? On mobile my screen estate is very valuable and I don't want to waste it on unnecessary things.
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- mindcrime 11y agoI just logged in and nothing looks any different to me at a first glance. And as much as I want to like G+, I can't get over the absolutely abysmal design with that single narrow column and all that empty space off to the sides. It just grates at my nerves for some reason. And the multi-column view is shit, which is why I turned it off in the first place. Facebook, OTOH, has a design which is way too "busy". And never mind that both Facebook and G+ are walled-gardens anyway. I need to just convince more of my friends to join up with GNU Social.
- bad_user 11y agoYou have to opt-in to the new interface.
- mindcrime 11y agoYeah, but I don't get any prompt to do so, and can't even find any mention of it. Maybe they're doing one of those Google "roll this out to different users at different times" things. shrug
- mrbill 11y agoSame here, even after logging out and back in, no opt-in for the "new" UI yet.
- erodingvar 11y agoClick the G+ sidebar, Settings, Manage Google+ activity. Then click in the Search box.
- brazzledazzle 11y agoI got it when I opted into the new URL. I wonder if they can only carry one "opt-in" prompt at a time and this happened to overlap with that.
- izzydata 11y agoI'm confused as to why my google+ has almost 200,000 views, but it has zero posts and basically nobody in my circles. Is this counter broken for anyone else?
- voidlogic 11y agoInteresting, I have 216 followers and 86,062 views...
- tim333 11y agoI have 3 'followers', basically no content and 10,755 views. I'm sure few humans have looked. Probably mostly search bots. I do have viewers on youtube though.
- jnpatel 11y agoAre you really active in Gmail? It could be lots of people you correspond with clicking through to your profile, from the link that typically shows up in the right sidebar.
- izzydata 11y agoNope, nobody contacts me personally through gmail. I kind of wish g+ had a similar stats tracker as youtube so I could check where all the traffic came from.
- abraham 11y agoLarge view counts are generally from photos. Either in Picasa Web or Maps.
- electricblue 11y agoStill not sure who this is for and why they would want to use it. Google is at its best when they are fixing problems in a novel way, not trying to ape everyone else
- lxe 11y agoLooks like G+ is still using the old Google logo.
- 77ko 11y agoGood they are still working on Google plus but what's the difference between a community and a collection? And what happened to circles?
- chimeracoder 11y agoI don't like the gif in the middle of the page. With a video I can easily pause or skip to the part I want to see. Even an image carousel for four static images would have the same effect. As it is, I instead have to wait until it cycles around to look at any given image, which is rather frustrating.
- eagsalazar2 11y agoMost irritating detail is the interaction where there is what looks like a select box (little down arrow and everything) but it expands when you hover over it after a small delay. The delay ends up being the most irritating thing because it is just enough time for me to accidentally click where the drop down used to be and is now a home button! It is small but this gets me every time and it is just such a gross usability fail. Maybe this is unfair but I have a hard time getting past it to give g+ a chance when my first explorations smacks me with an experience that is so poorly constructed and violates so many obvious usability best practices.
- xrstf 11y agoI always thought I was the only one who constantly misclicked those idiotic dropdowns. The same goes for the Circle button, which expands after a while and I always accidentally put people in the wrong circle.
- abraham 11y agoThe "Home v" hover menu is the old design and was replaced in the new design with Google's typical hamburger sidebar.
- hackuser 11y agoHow good are the discussions on Google+? I hesitate to share my identity and data with Google, but I'm also on a never-ending (that might turn out to be literally true) quest to find sophisticated, intelligent discussion of politics and policy.
- sevensor 11y agoYou can't escape trolls entirely, but they're pretty rare in my feed. I don't go in for politics and policy, though. Many long-time linux kernel and userland developers are on G+, including Linus himself. Linus usually posts scuba-diving pictures. Lennart Poettering is also on G+, so I had a front seat when all of the major distros were debating systemd.
- edent 11y agoThere's no threading - even Facebook has a couple of levelslevels. G+ is just flat.
- dredmorbius 11y agoIt really depends on your specific interests and community. Total size is perhaps 1/3 - 1/4 FB, but there are zones of excellence. If you want to find everyone, go to Facebook. If you want discussion, Reddit. Topics in depth, blogs. High S/N: Metafilter. This might be of interest: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/tracking_the_conversation_fp_global_100_thinkers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin...
- Shooti 11y agoOld Way: Two separate concepts called the same thing. Google+ (Unified profile/account/sharing system across services) and Google+ (Social network). This backfired because what people made the natural inference that the purpose of the former was to force use of the later when the opposite was what Google was aiming for. The purpose of the social network was to promote the unified login, but instead it poisoned the well. New way: Concept of a "Google+ account" has been folded into the main Google Account as a new cross-service "About Me" account https://aboutme.google.com/ https://aboutme.google.com/ . Google+ (Social Network) is now just a client of the former, so the G+ website is shedding all the features related to its old dual system integrator role. That's what I can make out, anyway.
- rch 11y agoThey're still stuck on oversharing. Following a collection pops up a warning explaining that it's going to be public everywhere forever, with the options 'OK got it' and 'Cancel'... I wonder which option is more popular.
- kin 11y agoCollections is kind of like Pinterest. Communities is kind of like Reddit. Plus was kind of like Facebook. Buzz was kind of like Twitter. They really need to stop imitating and start innovating. At this point I don't even think they know who they're targeting they're just trying to do a little bit of everything but they don't do it well enough for me to want to use it.
- viraptor 11y agoPinterest is kind of like delicious, reddit is kind of like forums, facebook is kind of like myspace, twitter is kind of like irc. There's nothing new. Iteration on a good idea is not a bad thing.
- kin 11y agoThe thing is, everything Google is doing is a lesser form of what it's copying so it's not an iteration. That and they're not just copying one thing they're trying to do everything. Why? All of your examples sought to improve upon one thing, do it well, and do it with focus. My main point is that Google's social products are all over the place. They're firing on all cylinders but not aiming at anything.
- foxylad 11y agoI'm guessing they see the integration as an iteration. A lot of people would prefer to have a single sign-on, cross-linking etc. rather than having separate Facebook, Twitter, etc.
- blfr 11y agoReddit is not kind of like forums, it's almost Usenet ported to the web.
- efuquen 11y agoThere were many well established search engines readily available when they launched search to.
- on_and_off 11y agoGood. Collections is the best feature of Google+ and a way better implementation of the circle feature. Communities is another strong point of the service, even though Collections alone would have been enough for me. The mobile design on Android is disconcerting to say the least, according to the material spec, tabs are at the top. Putting them at the bottom allows one handed navigation BUT is way too close to the navigation bar and usually cause many false taps.
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- kup0 11y agoI can't seem to get prompted for the new version? Is it rolling out?
- thecrumb 11y agoNo
- codingdave 11y agoTheir layout of content still nixes it for me. I don't know where this idea of multiple columns of content without any horizontal sync with each other originated, but it does not work for me, not on any site. I read from left-to-right, top-to-bottom. I know other languages differ. But despite the age-old advice that people on the web do not read, they skim, this trend is too much of a disconnect for how I want to see information.
- pavel_lishin 11y agoIt seems more reminiscent of a market or a bazaar - they seem to be aiming for people who don't need to look over every stall in detail, but for the people who let their gaze wander until something catches their eye. Which is fine, but I'm not that person, and that's not something I have a use for.
- shostack 11y agoTotally agree with this analogy. I would be surprised if one of the primary drivers of high CTR isn't the image, just like it is with other similar experiences.
- jordanlev 11y agoNot sure where it originated, but it was popularized by Pinterest many years ago. I think it works better when the content is primarily images, not so much text.
- codingdave 11y agoYeah, I have the same complaint about Pinterest. My wife likes it, but I find it an incomprehensible mess.
- jusben1369 11y agoWell I bet based on their target market they'd be ok with this outcome.
- arca_vorago 11y agoMy biggest gripe with google+ was and is that it lacks clear compartmentalization of information. There is just something about using a profile in a public way that also can potentially tie into an email, calendar, everything portal that just bugs me something fierce. Also, I know they finally revised it, but the real names policy and the wierd way they try to force you to merge youtube/gmail profiles into google+ really put me off as well. A similar gripe with logging into multiple accounts in a single browser session, I just want to be able to logoff and login as a different user, not merge 10 profiles! That being said, I have found some communities on google+ that overwhelmed the negatives and I found myself using it anyway. There are some communities that aren't anywhere else.
- johnward 11y agoDoes anyone know what the old google+ looked like?
- hackaflocka 11y agoGoogle has trouble understanding that it was a Black Swan. That its initial success may not be replicable.
- pyrrhotech 11y agoTime to short Google. It's clear they are out of ideas and their core business is under siege by ad blockers.
- RawData 11y agoWait wait wait...Google+ still exists?!
- fredkbloggs 11y agoIf you never define something concretely, no one can say whether the thing exists or not. "Google+" was never any specific service or technology or product, so the term is just a label that Google management can apply to whatever they want. Google Reader was alive. It's now dead. Google+? Impossible to say.
- criley2 11y agoShame, the single anti-feature that prevents me from joining is still in place: >Join Google+ by creating your public profile I don't want a Public Profile. I don't need my gmail account to have a public profile. I don't need search engines, randos, nobodies, everybody to have access to my profile. Why does Google mandate Public Profiles? I don't understand. Facebook does not mandate Public profiles (if you visit my Facebook page, it says 404 error page does not exist unless you are logged in and within friend of a friend distance to me). One day Google will allow me to be apart of their network without mandating that I provide the public internet a profile. And yes, I realize that aspects on the public profile can be manually disabled (it takes some 100-120 clicks to turn off every feature, one by one, even though the page itself remains public including your image and name).
- rokhayakebe 11y agoThe craziest part is when I happen on Google + accidentally and Google shows me the account I deleted eleven times. Than I am confusing as to whether I have an account or not.
- mynameisvlad 11y agoConsidering it's been back after 11 times, I'm going to say that yes, you do still have an account.
- edent 11y agoThere is a hidden option to create a totally private profile. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/05/how-to-make-your-google-account-completely-private/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/05/how-to-make-your-google-acc... You have to set your audience settings to "No one".
- criley2 11y agoThis doesn't remove the public page, it simply adds a "restricted" message to still-public page that still contains information like name and photo. On Facebook, if I restrict my page and send you the link you will see: 404 error, page not found On G+ if I follow your advice and send you the link you will see: <MY NAME> <MY PHOTO> has restricted this page. It's still a fully public profile which resolves as a URL and contains real personal information (name+photo) that cannot be disabled.
- suyash 11y agoUX is terrible for a re-do, It's confusing and the whole layout is out dated.
- Osiris 11y agoI really don't like multi-column layouts. It's impossible to read. arstechnica is a really good example. There are three columns, each with blocks that are different sizes. So, I end up reading all the headlines from the left column, scrolling back to the stop, reading the second column, then scrolling back up for the third column. I've tried to use Google+ on my Android device and the experience is awful. You get a few words and a huge picture that doesn't tell you anything about the post.
- duderific 11y agoFWIW, you can change the layout on arstechnica: - Hover over Main Menu in the navigation - in the upper right corner of the menu, there is a label "Layout" that has some icons you can click to adjust to a two column layout that is more top-to-bottom friendly.
- hisyam 11y agoThe problem isn't the multi-column layout. The real problem are the blocks/cards/boxes that have different heights.
- abraham 11y agoSettings has a "Restrict stream to single column layout on all screen sizes" option.
- rottyguy 11y agoI may be in the minority here but Reddit is MUCH more interesting to me than fb these days. My friends' content is simply not that interesting to me whereas I can find a SIG on Reddit that has what I want.
- puredemo 11y agoIt's been that way for years...
- erikpukinskis 11y agoI wonder why Google is unable to do what Microsoft has always done. MS generally never leads markets, but they usually can put together a passable product that gets at least double digit share on their third try. Google seems to lead some charges (i.e. Android) but definitely don't have the third-time's-the-charm luck. Maybe these are mutually exclusive properties of different organizational principles.
- erodingvar 11y agoI was trying it, and clicking the sidebar Profile link caused Firefox to go "Not responding", and I had to use "End task" to kill the browser. One of my main complaints about the Google+ interface is how heavy it is. It feels like it was designed by a huge corporation, under many thick layers. I like fast baremetal sites, not heavy JS apps that feel like running an emulated Adobe Photoshop in a web browser.
- vincentleeuwen 11y agoI didn't know there were still people heading over to Google+...
- jinst8gmi 11y agoMaybe they are hoping to impress both of them.
- Havoc 11y agoIs the plan still to force it onto users/victims? If they fixed that part then it's a massive improvement
- subpixel 11y ago> If you head over to Google+ today I literally have no idea how I would even do that.
- djcapelis 11y agoGo to your address bar and type this special and complex incantation: https://plus.google.com https://plus.google.com
- subpixel 11y agoMy point is that I've never done that, I've never heard of other people doing that much, and nowhere on the page does it explain how to do that. But the general confusion that Google+ elicits in people is perhaps best reflected in one of the 'Collections' linked to from the blog post, wherein a woman has shared numerous messages about her personal life under a photo of a vintage calculator.
- rickmacleod204 11y agolovin the new G+ ...wayyy better than u know who... also, looks like they've taken some of ello.co 's ideas to heart
- dredmorbius 11y agoWhich of Ello's ideas?
- ocdtrekkie 11y agoA stunning fact came from a Googler today: https://plus.google.com/+IlyaGrigorik/posts/GzjRiVUED1S https://plus.google.com/+IlyaGrigorik/posts/GzjRiVUED1S The previous Google+ site took an AVERAGE of 12 seconds to load, and was 22 MB when gzipped. This company, which once wrote a blog called "speed matters", where they announced they'd penalize sites for slow loading, had an average page load of 12 seconds on their social network. (For single-threaded browsers like Firefox, it'd actually freeze up the browser for about ten of those seconds.) I'm not super fond of the design, but what I am super fond of, is that Google+ no longer crashes my web browser.
- puredemo 11y agoYou mean an Alphabater?
- rasz_pl 11y agoHow about that Youtube comment unbundle? Whats that? you lied? oh ...
- untilHellbanned 11y agoWhat's most noticeable about this post is the volume of snark that will go unchecked by the HN cops. Be slightly critical of any YC company or any other pet subject and you will get downvoted to oblivion.
- pjbrunet 11y agoEverything is too big. Must zoom out. I bought this big screen to see more stuff, not because I'm blind. Also the animation should be optional--sluggish and annoying. It feels slow, like too much Javascript, bad coding. The "collections" looks like a copy of Pinterest. People tab is not working at all for me--it's just broken.
- jzelinskie 11y agoClicking "Profile" in the left menu reproduces a 500 HTTP error for me. Anybody else seeing this issue?
- aikah 11y agoA service that has no identity, which a bunch of copy of other services glued together. I didn't want to use Google+ , i'm not going to use Google ++ and get a different product every 2 years because it still doesn't know what it wants to be.
- mark_l_watson 11y agoThe changes are OK, I suppose. I read stuff on G+ a lot, my preference being on my Note 4 rather than on a laptop size browser. Maybe it just because I have a lot of interesting people in my circles, but in any case there is usually a lot of interesting (and even useful) information.
- joeevans1000 11y agoGoogle+ is back? This is like where Sigourney Weaver gets into her escape pod in Alien, only to find the alien there.
- BoppreH 11y agoCommunities were front and center in Orkut, Google's old social network. For some reason it only made success in a few countries, but absolutely dominated in those (Brazil predominantly). This literally feels like a rollback to their old social network.
- angvp 11y agoaren't they dropping google+? nobody uses that crap
- bluthru 11y agoWhen is Google going to drop the dingy grey as a background color? It's so gross. Google had things figured out with its crisp white aesthetic. Superfluous cards and shadows (thanks Material Design) has borked design at Google.
- cft 11y agoThe right thing to do with Google+ is to drop it. Google should not aspire to build social products: they are an algorithm company. Their attempts to interact with humans historically have failed: see adsence publishers, support of Nexus phones, etc.
- mjpearson 11y agoNo, please just make it stop.
- dredmorbius 11y agoThere's a meta-level of this roll-out that I find quite striking. 1. Google have previewed this as an optional experience 2. Which users can roll back from. Unlike earlier major releases, it's not dumped all-at-once, and it's not a "if you try it there's no going back" option (as CoverPhotos were a few years back). 2. The changes were undertaken with user-involvement. Google are loudly touting that they solicited input from users, even visiting them at home, to come up with the new design. Mind, I wasn't part of this, but that appears to be a striking change from previous roll-outs, which were very much "we know best" events. Last December we saw a sneak preview of the New Google+ Development Process: a substantial change to the Notifications mechanism ... which was all but universally panned. I wrote a long and piquant post about how damned important G+'s Notifications mechanism was to the site (it's among the few parts of the service which are really quite compelling). Mucking with that is dangerous business. In less than 24 hours, Google reversed the push. I was absolutely stunned. Said so. https://plus.google.com/+BalajiSrinivasan/posts/Wntg5XoEHmb https://plus.google.com/+BalajiSrinivasan/posts/Wntg5XoEHmb I'm not sure how the changes here will look, I'm using the Android client, not desktop, for the present. I suspect I'll have some sharp criticisms (I usually do). But I'm seeing some encouraging signs in the process.
- hartator 11y agoClicked on the link "Zombie Cats", started scrolling to the end of the posts, got "There was a problem completing this action. Please try again.". Impressive demo.
- frade33 11y agoGoogle is a prime example. Money alone can not buy love, and can not buy success either.
- bencollier49 11y agoLooks the same as before: rubbish.
- cakeface 11y agoIs it still possible to chat / hangout through google+? I cannot seem to figure out how to do it.