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Same exact experience here. Should I add the Hacker News circle to my friends circle? Acquaintances circle? Family circle? At this point I can hear some Google
by hyperbovine 15y ago
Same exact experience here. Should I add the Hacker News circle to my friends circle? Acquaintances circle? Family circle?
At this point I can hear some Googler with a 160 IQ chiming in that, algorithmically, it doesn't matter whether Hacker News is a person or a group of people; the effect on personal search is the same. This misses the point. People think in metaphors, and if the metaphor is broken they assume the product is too.
With so many brilliant people at Google, and Facebook nipping at their heels, I am shocked at how bad G+ remains months after it launched.
- stonemetal 15y agoI made an HN specific circle so that it could easily be limited or turned off. Getting a flood of messages from several hundred people can be a bit annoying.
- farnsworth 15y agoThe Hacker News Circle is a Google+ page that publishes the shared "Hacker Circle." The Hacker Circle is a circle that has been shared publicly. This means you can look at the list of people in the circle, add any that look interesting, or, as I did, add the entire circle as one of my own personal circles. But like the posts say, your own circle can't be updated by someone else. The page will periodically release an updated version of the circle, and if you want all the latest people, you need to go back to the page and re-add the circle. To add yourself, visit the link as instructed in the posts. As far as I can tell, when I do a search, social results should automatically show up. I must not have this feature turned on yet, or maybe I need to turn it on and can't figure out how. I might be wrong on something, I don't even use G+ much, it's just how it seems to me on a few minutes of looking at it.