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... so everything consolidated in G+?

by atmosx 6y ago

macintux 6y ago
Certainly that was Google's intention. Thank goodness they failed.
- pantalaimon 6y ago
  But they didn't even try very hard. G+ didn't event have a way to create events. Google Calendar was on every Android device, it would have been so seamless if you could have create a birthday party or attend a rave in the park and it would be right in your calendar. But no, you could only post stories and pictures. That made for a rather bare-bones social network.
  - Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
    First iteration was rather nice, clean interface without many distractions. However, then they got all cardy with that material design, and it all was very confusing
    - waheoo 6y ago
      I swear material design was the result of one too many post-it note sessions.
  - Godel_unicode 6y ago
    This is a great illustration of the problem G+ had; events in g+ were amazing but nobody (apparently) knew. Setting them up was easy, inviting people was easy, privacy for events made sense from the UI, etc. If you set things up correctly, everyone who was invited would have a shared photo album that they would be able to share pictures to with one click. I have a friend who had an amazing wedding photo album created this way; to this day they swear that if it had been marketed better g+ events would have put wedding photographers out of business...
    - pantalaimon 6y ago
      Maybe they added it later? When it launched there was no such feature, I think they added events after a year or so, but by then all the hype had already died down.
    - olliej 6y ago
      Did people have to have G+ accounts to receive invites? I know Facebook requires it, but if they just used standard calendaring events (maybe with an info link to g+?) that would seem a winner
  - eythian 6y ago
    G+ had events, I used to use them all the time. And then they removed them from communities, which was a large portion of how people (in my circles at least) used them. So that made it a lot less useful.
llarsson 6y ago
I still remember being swept away by Google Wave. Such a cool idea at the time, I thought. That was such a good idea compared to Google Plus. Your content, your comments, just aggregated. They could have pulled it off, too, I am sure. They just didn't want to.
- cheschire 6y ago
  Maybe I'm just remembering poorly, but Wave seemed super buggy and laggy to me at the time.
  - edoceo 6y ago
    It was crappy but it's intention was good.
  - kybernetikos 6y ago
    We used it for architectural discussions and exploring ideas. I'd be hard pressed to think of something that was better for that.
    - skinkestek 6y ago
      For some reason I never saw it working. Does anyone have a link to a video of it actually being in use?
      - henhouse 6y ago
        https://youtu.be/eKUAqNGVwX0 https://youtu.be/eKUAqNGVwX0
  - eythian 6y ago
    It wasn't the fastest, but I think that now browser (and CPU) tech has moved on since then, it'd probably be a lot smoother. I remember using it once to coordinate specs on a small contract job and it worked pretty well for that.
- atmosx 6y ago

... so everything consolidated in G+?

by atmosx 6y ago

... so everything consolidated in G+?

macintux 6y ago

Certainly that was Google's intention. Thank goodness they failed.

pantalaimon 6y ago
But they didn't even try very hard. G+ didn't event have a way to create events. Google Calendar was on every Android device, it would have been so seamless if you could have create a birthday party or attend a rave in the park and it would be right in your calendar. But no, you could only post stories and pictures. That made for a rather bare-bones social network.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
  First iteration was rather nice, clean interface without many distractions. However, then they got all cardy with that material design, and it all was very confusing
  - waheoo 6y ago
    I swear material design was the result of one too many post-it note sessions.
- Godel_unicode 6y ago
  This is a great illustration of the problem G+ had; events in g+ were amazing but nobody (apparently) knew. Setting them up was easy, inviting people was easy, privacy for events made sense from the UI, etc. If you set things up correctly, everyone who was invited would have a shared photo album that they would be able to share pictures to with one click. I have a friend who had an amazing wedding photo album created this way; to this day they swear that if it had been marketed better g+ events would have put wedding photographers out of business...
  - pantalaimon 6y ago
    Maybe they added it later? When it launched there was no such feature, I think they added events after a year or so, but by then all the hype had already died down.
  - olliej 6y ago
    Did people have to have G+ accounts to receive invites? I know Facebook requires it, but if they just used standard calendaring events (maybe with an info link to g+?) that would seem a winner
- eythian 6y ago
  G+ had events, I used to use them all the time. And then they removed them from communities, which was a large portion of how people (in my circles at least) used them. So that made it a lot less useful.

llarsson 6y ago

I still remember being swept away by Google Wave. Such a cool idea at the time, I thought. That was such a good idea compared to Google Plus. Your content, your comments, just aggregated. They could have pulled it off, too, I am sure. They just didn't want to.

cheschire 6y ago
Maybe I'm just remembering poorly, but Wave seemed super buggy and laggy to me at the time.
- edoceo 6y ago
  It was crappy but it's intention was good.
- kybernetikos 6y ago
  We used it for architectural discussions and exploring ideas. I'd be hard pressed to think of something that was better for that.
  - skinkestek 6y ago
    For some reason I never saw it working. Does anyone have a link to a video of it actually being in use?
    - henhouse 6y ago
      https://youtu.be/eKUAqNGVwX0 https://youtu.be/eKUAqNGVwX0
- eythian 6y ago
  It wasn't the fastest, but I think that now browser (and CPU) tech has moved on since then, it'd probably be a lot smoother. I remember using it once to coordinate specs on a small contract job and it worked pretty well for that.
atmosx 6y ago