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Off-topic: I don't use G+ (or Facebook, for that matter), but I've always wondered what's with its disgusting, un-humanish urls. It's Scobble's (I presume): htt
by pooriaazimi 14y ago
Off-topic: I don't use G+ (or Facebook, for that matter), but I've always wondered what's with its disgusting, un-humanish urls. It's Scobble's (I presume): https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853 https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853
What the hell is that? If you wanted to share you G+ profile (say, to a friend in a bar) would you have to spell this god-knows-how-much-long id, or is there a better way (like, plus.google.com/robert_scoble) that I'm not aware of (of course, without using url shorteners)?
- antidoh 14y agoWith unbelievably hostile URLs like that, you need to share a URL to your own site/blog/someplace that's easy to verbally share, and then link to your G+ from there. Which is an antipattern, and a smell of some sort.
- Raphael 14y agoIt is odd to neglect readable URLs, especially considering they actually had that before on profiles.google.com.
- jmelloy 14y agoI thought the story was that they were readable User IDs until fairly late in the dev process, when they realized they were giving away what people's gmail accounts were.
- X-Istence 14y agoThose still work ... http://profiles.google.com/xistence http://profiles.google.com/xistence I liked that on Google Profiles I could pick my own alias, I happened to make it the same as my email address @gmail.com but there was still a choice. The number used now is not nearly as comprehensible, I hope they reintroduce something like the profiles.google.com stuff.