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Ask HN: Does anyone still uses Google+?
- mindcrime 10y agoI do.
- patricjansson 10y agoI Don´t.
- jamescustard 10y agoSometimes.
- arunv10 10y agoNot at all
- furyg3 10y agoA+ for circles, G+ for content.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- cklar 10y agoJust to stay informed about Android Development
- Daviey 10y agoA bit.
- brianzelip 10y agoSome communities do, like Ingress[0] players for example. [0]http://ingress.com/ http://ingress.com/
- SalimoS 10y agoAnother Ask HN do people still use/play Ingress
- owaislone 10y agoTo follow communities like Ubuntu, etc
- reitanqild 10y agoI do. Sometimes. I follow some IT stuff, chili growing, photography etc. Would possibly have used it more if I had time. (Don't use any other network either.)
- ixtli 10y agoEvery once and a while.
- kintamanimatt 10y agoThis question would have been good as a poll. I don't. I actually forgot about it until this question was raised, and I couldn't tell you the last time I visited it. It is what it is.
- huuu 10y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822260
- panglott 10y agoAmong my interest groups, it only found a niche among the old-school renaissance RPG bloggers, people like Eric Tenkar of tenkarstavern.com. I logged in, and those guys are still posting on Google+ regularly. I rarely go there, however.
- romanovcode 10y agoNever was, never will.
- maggit 10y agoNot really, but I miss it. Not that it ever had the popularity it needed to be really useful, but I did use it to reach out to my programmer friends. As a kind of minimal effort blog. The biggest advantage with G+, as I used it, was that I could post technical stuff (like I would on Twitter) without confusing my other friends (like I would on Facebook) and it would actually be read (unlike Twitter).
- chrisan 10y agoI rarely use either G+ or Facebook, but that feature was indeed a big drawing factor when I originally tried out G+ Could you not do the same thing with Facebook now that it has "Audiences"? I have a "Gamer Friends" one where I could post about DOOM or Overwatch and not weird out "normal" people Not that I post there as we use Telegram.. but in theory I could
- meddlepal 10y agoNever.
- hantusk 10y agoYes, for sharing photos ~3 times a month with selected family. Good integration with Google Photos for those small updates. Otherwise, no.
- _RPM 10y agothe one person that I remember using it was Linus Torvalds.
- ftrflyr 10y agoNever. I would though if they integrate with another platform - such as Slack. But that will never happen.
- skrowl 10y agoI use it to share Google Photos with my family. While Google Photos is great for organizing your own pictures, it doesn't provide a built in means of sharing.
- raverbashing 10y agoYes it does, you can create albums and give them a public link to that album I think Google Photos call it "Share to social media" but they give you a link when you do that
- janvdberg 10y agoI follow a bunch of GNU/Linux developers on it. They seem to have moved to G+ instead of personal blogs: https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds https://plus.google.com/+gregkroahhartman https://plus.google.com/+gregkroahhartman https://plus.google.com/+AlanCoxLinux https://plus.google.com/+AlanCoxLinux etc.
- thomasahle 10y agoOther people who post interesting things in the Algorithms and Math areas: David Eppstein, David Roberts, Terrence Tao. I quite like reading people like those on G+ without all the noise and distractions on Facebook and Twitter.
- janvdberg 10y agoYes, and the thing that bothers me most is that there are no RSS feeds available. Having these would be even less noise/distraction. I understand why they don't provide RSS feeds, but I don't like it.
- commentzorro 10y agoMy understanding is (was) that each group can choose to enable RSS if they want. I seem to remember Go having RSS and Dart not (or vice versa). When I asked the one that didn't, they said they choose not to enable it (in order to draw people into the site).
- piotrkubisa 10y agoIndeed, the GNU/Linux devs very often uses G+ as blog platform but also there are some communities around the GNU/Linux stuff like elementaryOS[1][2] or WorldOfGnome[2]. [1] https://plus.google.com/communities/104613975513761463450 https://plus.google.com/communities/104613975513761463450 [2] https://plus.google.com/+elementary/posts https://plus.google.com/+elementary/posts [3] https://plus.google.com/+WorldofGnomeOrg/posts https://plus.google.com/+WorldofGnomeOrg/posts
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- asdz 10y agoalways... lots chinese friend there
- fsloth 10y agoMy employer uses it as an internal company wide message board for cross-functionality cross-discipline communications (company composed of several subsidiaries and offices across the continents, headcount just under 10K, workforce composed mostly of engineers and B2B sales)..
- sevensor 10y agoI do. A fair number of Linux kernel and systemd folks like to post on G+. Sometimes they gripe at each other. I wouldn't say they post often, but it's usually interesting when they do.
- ramtatatam 10y agoI don't like using things when I'm forced and unfortunately for google+ - you could not use youtube withoud signing up for google+, that was the tipping point for me to decide I will never use this platform.
- baldfat 10y agoSeems like you can't use a lot of things with that philosophy? Isn't all technology forcing you to change all the time? To be fair to Google it had to unify the sign in process instead of internal walls between YouTube, GMail and etc..
- ramtatatam 10y agoYou are misinterpreting what I said. New technology is great unless you are FORCED to use it. The word "FORCED" is the key here. Google was forcing youtube users to sign up for google+, you could not add comment until you had google+ account. This is forcing. There is no better way to make people hate your stuff if you are pushing it to their throats against their will. And who knows, maybe I would love google+ if I came accross it before ever using youtube? They did not give me that chance.
- enkiv2 10y agoYeah, and in order to use youtube you are also forced to get broadband internet and a computer... I'm sure you hate those things too.
- ramtatatam 10y agoNope, again you are misintepreting. Youtube was built on top of internet. If there was no internet there would be no youtube. Since youtube was introduced before google+ was invented I would say your example is rather wrong and a bit aggressive.
- baldfat 10y agoBut isn't a company allowed to use a unified sign in process instead of keeping the products they bought separated? It was more about a unified sign in. Do you also NOT use YouTube since that was where you were forced to use a new sign in.
- alpeb 10y agoI do. I think it's great for providing public support / community for consumer software, specially after their latest revamp, which undid the confusing multi-column layout.
- raverbashing 10y agoI see some people still there, most of the content seems to be the one replicated by some social tools that post it everywhere (Most of my connections there are tech oriented so sometimes I post a one-off thing that I found interesting)
- zellyn 10y agoIt's great for nerdy niche interests, like retrocomputing.
- sashk 10y agoI do daily. And there are many people who do more than I.
- ArmandGrillet 10y agoI still use it fo follow Googlers who share stuff only on G+ (e.g. François Beaufort).
- msabalau 10y agoI do. It has enough users to be a good place to follow specialized communities and topics of interest. I think of it as a long form version of Twitter. Neither Twitter nor G+ have the ubiquity serve Facebook's purpose of collecting every random person you know. I keep up with the people I actually care about in real life, so personally find G+ and Twitter useful on a daily basis, and Facebook as a once a month supplemental sort of thing.
- gorbachev 10y agoThe same here. The way I use G+ is mostly as a source of more in-depth information compared to the breaking news nature of Twitter. I also have a G+ Collection for posting high quality online articles, essentially my personal version of longreads.com.
- sidcool 10y agoI use it for tracking Tech communities. I use Hangouts and Photos a lot, although they're no longer a part of Google+. I am pretty sure Google will phase out G+ in a year or two. Like Allo and Duo, they will bring something new.
- robotnoises 10y agoNo. I wanted to, but it's never been a compelling platform.
- robotnoises 10y agoNo. I wanted to, but it's never been a compelling platform.
- nerder92 10y agoUsing hangout can be considered as using G+?
- coldpie 10y agoI do. One guy I know (Dan Kegel) posts interesting stuff there, and so does Torvalds. It's a very low volume, high signal stream. I don't use Facebook because it's a very low signal (approaching zero) stream and I don't want to waste my time with that crap.
- chenster 10y agoI was wondering EXACTLY the same thing today!
- mungoid 10y agoI use it all the time.. to sign into sites I don't feel like making an account for
- maga 10y agoDepends on how one defines the use. I prefer it over every other general purpose networks: in fact, I've never had an active Facebook or Twitter account. However, I have not posted in public on G+ for a few years. I have hard time keeping up with the info flow from RSS and GitHub, which leaves little time for G+ or HM, and knowing that others are no less busy I really don't want to bother people with my musings unduly. 1594 days on HM that resulted in only a dozen or so comments can attest to that.
- mattkevan 10y agoNope - I deleted my G+ profile last night. I accidentally created a profile years ago, when it became a part of Google Apps. I took one look round and haven't used it since. It felt like work to use, and seemed like it was built for Google's needs to counter Facebook and collect joined up data on its users rather than a compelling platform for its own sake.
- enkiv2 10y agoI used G+ actively for many years (more often than Facebook, in fact), up until a year or two ago when a format change caused it to suddenly take up far more resources -- I use fairly old machines & use them heavily, so having some hunk of javascript taking up 100% of one CPU is grounds for ditching a site entirely. If Google would improve their performance for that site, I would still be using it regularly: it always had a better signal to noise ratio than Facebook or Tumblr. Today, my only involvement in G+ is as an administrator for a handful of communities (mostly relating to the fandoms of 60s and 70s countercultural figures -- one of a handful of subjects where, like tech, the G+ communities are more active and have a better signal to noise ratio than FB).
- m_sahaf 10y agoI don't understand why everyone complains about Google+ being a "ghost town." Google+ has become a vibrant social network for individuals of common interest, cliques if you may. Vibrant, active, and engaging communities of science-enthusiasts, technology geeks, developers, politics, writers, etc. are all reviving on G+. There are tons of interesting people on G+ who post frequently and make a bunch of rather interesting and thought provoking posts. For example, one Googler whom I follow, he's active, and always interesting is Yonatan Zunger[0]. John Baez makes some very educational and interesting math-related posts[1]. There are many others. [0] https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger [1] https://plus.google.com/117663015413546257905 https://plus.google.com/117663015413546257905
- LionessLover 10y agoI do, although rarely. One ex-colleague of mine whom I was connected with at FB left that site and is only available on G+, and in anger I "unfriended" another ex-colleague on FB whom I'm still connected with on G+, and there is no way I'm going to send a friend request on FB (I've only ever sent a single one myself). That's because I think my anger was justified. Don't send me friend requests if you then basically tell me you don't like what I'm writing. I was not angry enough to sever the connection on G+ too, however. Since I only use FB as a "bookmark service" where I post links to stuff I want to remember myself ("sciency" stuff mostly, zero politics or personal information) it does not really matter much to me. Very few connections on either website (FB or G+) post much that I'm actually interested in, which is pretty limited: Anything posted that's not a science or engineering topic (and nothing superficial from the mass media, please) is just noise. I don't know those people well enough to care about their private lives - when I do care I would not use FB to exchange such news.
- reitanqild 10y agoWhy is this in free fall down the front page despite 36 points in less than an hour?
- sp332 10y agoPosts that attract many more comments than upvotes trigger a flamebait-detector and are penalized on the front page.
- reitanqild 10y agoSometimes I think that is a shame like now when we are having an interesting discussion instead of the usual g+ bashing :-|
- tmaly 10y agoGoogle still provides G+ results in search, so it does benefit some of your posts if you have a blog
- tacone 10y agoWhich is conflict of interest at best.
- bgdwin 10y agoI don't have anyone in my circles and enjoy the guilty pleasure of seeing the auto suggested bland but worldly "interesting stuff", hot cars, volcanoes, a spicy recipe, pictures of mars,smart quips and bold quotes with pets followed by my favorite happy ending of finding where click to log out...
- bgdwin 10y agoI don't have anyone in my circles and enjoy the guilty pleasure of seeing the auto suggested bland but worldly "interesting stuff", hot cars, volcanoes, a spicy recipe, pictures of mars,smart quips and bold quotes with pets followed by my favorite happy ending of finding where click to log out...
- crispytx 10y agono
- IntoBot 10y agoNo, never figure it out... Do you think it helps to improve SEO ? (I read it before)
- nextweek2 10y agoAs a general rule I don't use social networks because of the signal to noise ratio, but G+ is certainly a more intelligent network. G+ is certainly something I'll browse if I'm bored, which is probably couple of times a month. It's replaced StumbleUpon (from years ago) for me.
- yoloxis 10y agoYes, everyday. There are many communities for developers, woodworking, vegan,... in one place