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Google+ community for HTML5, CSS, JS

70 points by altryne1 14y ago

dccoolgai 14y ago
The three people that use G+ will be so excited when they hear about this!
- altryne1 14y ago
  There's already 260+ people in the group, and about 20 quality posts :) Youre welcome to join as well
  - skylamer 14y ago
    500 already :)
  - dccoolgai 14y ago
    I know - it looks like a cool group and I will probably join it. I just decided to spill a little karma on my HN-standup routine.
    - altryne1 14y ago
      1600 members! since the last comment I made, come join and make this the fastest growing group in google+
      - dccoolgai 14y ago
        done.
benjlang 14y ago
This community platform has a lot of potential, just need Google+ users to be more active.
Kiro 14y ago
First? I don't think so.
- altryne1 14y ago
  Yup, first, I've checked when I created it, also, the biggest, we're 1500 members strong at the moment
chib 14y ago
Finally, a reason to have an account. I'll frequent it, hope it takes off.
- altryne1 14y ago
  It will! Thanx for joining, we're already 1500 members strong, and we want to be the most visited community on Google+
pauletienney 14y ago
Those communities are interesting. They have subcategories. It means they are like a forum. If one day Google release an API we would be able to sync a community with a forum. It would make a forum with superpower with entry point anywhere on the web (via the +1 button)
jere 14y ago
I know it's a small thing, but the URL makes it feel quite ephemeral/impersonal. https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/103299867207875326585 https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/10329986720787532658... Compare to http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ Anyway, I joined. Hoping sometime in the future google+ becomes useful for me. Last post from a friend was 3 months ago.
- adeaver 14y ago
  I don't know why Google+ doesn't have 'vanity' URLs yet. It's not like it is that hard to do, especially if you own the servers. I know they are 'coming' and some people supposedly have them. But would it not make sense for their own properties to have them?
  - raldi 14y ago
    > But would it not make sense for their own properties to have them? http://google.com/+youtube http://google.com/+youtube http://google.com/+android http://google.com/+android http://google.com/+motorola http://google.com/+motorola
    - altryne1 14y ago
      How about http://gplus.to/html5plus http://gplus.to/html5plus
- VikingCoder 14y ago
  Does this make you feel any better? http://goo.gl/QhrXs http://goo.gl/QhrXs
  - hazelnut 14y ago
    hm, just a shorturl. but the readability is as bad as the other one.
    - jere 14y ago
derwildemomo 14y ago
Maybe I'm missing something important here, but right now it looks like a long list of posts concerning the topics, uncurated and free for everyone ( who is part of the group) to post. Are popular posts put on top or something?
- jpdoctor 14y ago
  That was also my reaction. Google thinks emulating the Yahoo finance board format is a good idea? Srsly?
  - fudged71 14y ago
    So far I've found that the best communities are the ones that have very good categories on the left. Being able to separate your posts like that is great. For example, check out "3D Printing" in "Makers, hackers, artists & engineers" https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112845006884148391862/stream/3d3bc0b9-2686-4c1f-b99f-5f9f4d7f5c00 https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11284500688414839186...
- Nogwater 14y ago
  Agreed. I think Google has enough interaction data (between +1's, comments, and shares) to know what the top posts in any community are. They need to slap the volume control slider that they use on other parts of the site onto the community pages to make it easy to view the top 10, 50, or ... recent posts. Similarly, it would be nice if they allowed the cream of the crop posts from the communities to bleed through to the main page. Discoverability of communities needs a lot of work to, but that's another comment. :)
- saraid216 14y ago
  It's the first day.
benjlang 14y ago
Just made a community for Hacker News users on Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116532187260749346879 https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11653218726074934687...
- eddanger 14y ago
  Next step a Reddit community for the Hacker News Google+ users!
  - deleted 14y ago
    [deleted]
SkyMarshal 14y ago
I didn't realize G+ had 'communities' now, so after joining this one I checked out the communities home page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities There's at least one major design issue with it - the communities have pictures, but no names or descriptions (unless it's in the picture), and mousing over doesn't give an alt-text description either. Am I missing something, or does G+ expect us to open every community in a new tab to see what it is?

70 points by altryne1 14y ago

dccoolgai 14y ago

The three people that use G+ will be so excited when they hear about this!

altryne1 14y ago
There's already 260+ people in the group, and about 20 quality posts :) Youre welcome to join as well
- skylamer 14y ago
  500 already :)
- dccoolgai 14y ago
  I know - it looks like a cool group and I will probably join it. I just decided to spill a little karma on my HN-standup routine.
  - altryne1 14y ago
    1600 members! since the last comment I made, come join and make this the fastest growing group in google+
    - dccoolgai 14y ago
      done.

benjlang 14y ago

This community platform has a lot of potential, just need Google+ users to be more active.

Kiro 14y ago

First? I don't think so.

altryne1 14y ago
Yup, first, I've checked when I created it, also, the biggest, we're 1500 members strong at the moment

chib 14y ago

Finally, a reason to have an account. I'll frequent it, hope it takes off.

altryne1 14y ago
It will! Thanx for joining, we're already 1500 members strong, and we want to be the most visited community on Google+

pauletienney 14y ago

Those communities are interesting. They have subcategories. It means they are like a forum. If one day Google release an API we would be able to sync a community with a forum. It would make a forum with superpower with entry point anywhere on the web (via the +1 button)

jere 14y ago

I know it's a small thing, but the URL makes it feel quite ephemeral/impersonal. https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/103299867207875326585 https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/10329986720787532658... Compare to http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ Anyway, I joined. Hoping sometime in the future google+ becomes useful for me. Last post from a friend was 3 months ago.

adeaver 14y ago
I don't know why Google+ doesn't have 'vanity' URLs yet. It's not like it is that hard to do, especially if you own the servers. I know they are 'coming' and some people supposedly have them. But would it not make sense for their own properties to have them?
- raldi 14y ago
  > But would it not make sense for their own properties to have them? http://google.com/+youtube http://google.com/+youtube http://google.com/+android http://google.com/+android http://google.com/+motorola http://google.com/+motorola
  - altryne1 14y ago
    How about http://gplus.to/html5plus http://gplus.to/html5plus
VikingCoder 14y ago
Does this make you feel any better? http://goo.gl/QhrXs http://goo.gl/QhrXs
- hazelnut 14y ago
  hm, just a shorturl. but the readability is as bad as the other one.
  - jere 14y ago

derwildemomo 14y ago

Maybe I'm missing something important here, but right now it looks like a long list of posts concerning the topics, uncurated and free for everyone ( who is part of the group) to post. Are popular posts put on top or something?

jpdoctor 14y ago
That was also my reaction. Google thinks emulating the Yahoo finance board format is a good idea? Srsly?
- fudged71 14y ago
  So far I've found that the best communities are the ones that have very good categories on the left. Being able to separate your posts like that is great. For example, check out "3D Printing" in "Makers, hackers, artists & engineers" https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112845006884148391862/stream/3d3bc0b9-2686-4c1f-b99f-5f9f4d7f5c00 https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11284500688414839186...
Nogwater 14y ago
Agreed. I think Google has enough interaction data (between +1's, comments, and shares) to know what the top posts in any community are. They need to slap the volume control slider that they use on other parts of the site onto the community pages to make it easy to view the top 10, 50, or ... recent posts. Similarly, it would be nice if they allowed the cream of the crop posts from the communities to bleed through to the main page. Discoverability of communities needs a lot of work to, but that's another comment. :)
saraid216 14y ago
It's the first day.

benjlang 14y ago

Just made a community for Hacker News users on Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116532187260749346879 https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11653218726074934687...

eddanger 14y ago
Next step a Reddit community for the Hacker News Google+ users!
- deleted 14y ago
  [deleted]

SkyMarshal 14y ago

I didn't realize G+ had 'communities' now, so after joining this one I checked out the communities home page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities There's at least one major design issue with it - the communities have pictures, but no names or descriptions (unless it's in the picture), and mousing over doesn't give an alt-text description either. Am I missing something, or does G+ expect us to open every community in a new tab to see what it is?