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They killed my fantastic google reader experience, and forced the "social" aspect of it into G+. This might seem shallow on my side, but I am still livid about
by ImprovedSilence 15y ago
They killed my fantastic google reader experience, and forced the "social" aspect of it into G+. This might seem shallow on my side, but I am still livid about this. They completely ruined the reader experience for me.
They tried to mesh too much social into one product. Too many generalities, not enough specialization. Even with their "circles". Now I don't even use reader, when it used to be my crack fix.
Also, I added the Hacker News circle on G+, and all of the sudden I have 1704395784390582430 contacts in gchat. mother eff.
Also, I had a perfectly one off custom color scheme in gmail, and I couldn't transfer it over to the new style. now I'm just bickering. I'm really only legitimately pissed about reader.....
- Zikes 15y agoI hate that link between G+ and gchat, also.
- FaceKicker 15y ago> Also, I added the Hacker News circle on G+, and all of the sudden I have 1704395784390582430 contacts in gchat. mother eff. While it's semi-annoying that people in your G+ circles get added to gchat by default, you can easily disable this. https://plus.google.com https://plus.google.com -> click the arrow by your name in contact list -> privacy settings -> change to "custom" and disable any/all circles you don't want on your gchat list.
- ImprovedSilence 15y agoThanks. I've been muckin around the settings in gmail a little, and was able to fix it a bit, but this seems a much more complete solution.
- Newky 15y agoAlso worth noting for anyone who is annoyed by the fact that these contacts are automagically added to your android phonebook(For instance Angry Birds apparently warrant a place in my phonebook?) I found a nice setting in Android which only shows contacts with phone numbers. Invaluable. Otherwise I love Google contacts for syncing etc.