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I used G+ a lot a few years back, and I did dozens of posts of logs of projects and so on... and then one day I wanted to refer to one of them to someone and di

I used G+ a lot a few years back, and I did dozens of posts of logs of projects and so on... and then one day I wanted to refer to one of them to someone and discovered you can't search you own posts. That immediately stopped me posted anything. It's almost write-once, read never sort of medium. It's too bad, there were a few good ideas and so on, and I had a bit of traction of a few good 'circles' but I'm pretty sure that like me, everyone else stopped. Now, I have to figure out a way of re-importing all that content to something else, probably homebrewed this time. IN FACT I've just checked, and G+ seems to have forgotten every single post I've made, but one. https://plus.google.com/+MichelPollet https://plus.google.com/+MichelPollet EDIT: Now the posts are back. I must have been archived on CDs or something ;-)

ssijak 8y ago
Try google takeout for g+ and see if your posts are there
- ReverseCold 8y ago
  This works very well. My download was huge (~50something GB I think), but it recovered all the emails that Gmail couldn't find anymore. Now I just use repgrip to search my old emails.
inferiorhuman 8y ago
> I used G+ a lot a few years back, and I did dozens of posts of logs of projects and so on... and then one day I wanted to refer to one of them to someone and discovered you can't search you own posts. I left Google Plus after Google Search kept turning up private posts that I had opted to remove from search.
jefftk 8y ago
For what it's worth, I see many posts at https://plus.google.com/+MichelPollet https://plus.google.com/+MichelPollet (Disclosure: I work at Google, on other things)
splonk 8y ago
> you can't search you own posts They keep moving the functionality, but I can still get to it on desktop. Search for something, "Posts" tab, change "From Everyone" dropdown to "From just you".
omoikane 8y ago
You can search for "from:me". For example, this link should show you your own posts from last year: https://plus.google.com/s/from%3Ame%20before%3A2018%2F01%2F1%20after%3A2017%2F01%2F01/top https://plus.google.com/s/from%3Ame%20before%3A2018%2F01%2F1...

ssijak 8y ago

Try google takeout for g+ and see if your posts are there

ReverseCold 8y ago
This works very well. My download was huge (~50something GB I think), but it recovered all the emails that Gmail couldn't find anymore. Now I just use repgrip to search my old emails.

inferiorhuman 8y ago

> I used G+ a lot a few years back, and I did dozens of posts of logs of projects and so on... and then one day I wanted to refer to one of them to someone and discovered you can't search you own posts. I left Google Plus after Google Search kept turning up private posts that I had opted to remove from search.

jefftk 8y ago

For what it's worth, I see many posts at https://plus.google.com/+MichelPollet https://plus.google.com/+MichelPollet (Disclosure: I work at Google, on other things)

splonk 8y ago

> you can't search you own posts They keep moving the functionality, but I can still get to it on desktop. Search for something, "Posts" tab, change "From Everyone" dropdown to "From just you".

omoikane 8y ago

You can search for "from:me". For example, this link should show you your own posts from last year: https://plus.google.com/s/from%3Ame%20before%3A2018%2F01%2F1%20after%3A2017%2F01%2F01/top https://plus.google.com/s/from%3Ame%20before%3A2018%2F01%2F1...