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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

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.

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.