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G+ was the typical google launch. It failed on too many levels from the beginning, took a long time to get their shit together and had too many scandals/annoyin

G+ was the typical google launch. It failed on too many levels from the beginning, took a long time to get their shit together and had too many scandals/annoying traits which pushed people away. And at the end it's main sellingpoint still was just that it was not-facebook. Googles biggest fail was probably that Plus was too nerdy, and that they tried to sweep everything into it. Youtube, Reader, Photos, even the search was harmed by it. And at the end the people just got another unsexy service where nobody they cared for was available. Google should have done it the google-way, lettingnit work alongside other services and on it's own, instead of trying to copy facebook and then forcefeed everything to everyone.

lazulicurio 8y ago
> Googles biggest fail was probably that Plus [...] tried to sweep everything into it. Youtube, Reader, Photos, even the search was harmed by it Everything but events integration with calendar, which would have been a potentially killer feature. 90% of what I use Facebook for is messenger and coordinating group get-togethers. Google Calendar already had options for public/shared events; I find it baffling that Plus didn't try to take advantage of that.
- mcv 8y ago
  Events and hangouts were a magical combination on Google+. Perfect for organising online RPG games (G+ was very popular among roleplayers). People were really angry when they killed that.
- Kye 8y ago
  There's at least an option for events now: https://gettogether.community/ https://gettogether.community/ It uses ActivityPub, but I don't know of any primetime-ready messengers that use AP yet. This is all I could find: https://github.com/fedimos https://github.com/fedimos