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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.goo

by 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
    Yup. Something like this might work better: http://is.gd/google_plus_html5 http://is.gd/google_plus_html5 But it still doesn't matter. Just because you can produce a pretty URL using a 3rd party service doesn't mean it's going to be utilized.
  - altryne1 14y ago
    how about http://gplus.to/html5plus http://gplus.to/html5plus
ojr 14y ago
if you start a search in google+ and press ht..it will automagically autocomplete to the HTML5 community page, if thats not too hard for you ;), if your friends posts about whatever is valuable to you so be it but I see more value in a community filled with like-minded individuals, to each his own! Reddit has no faces and real names and we all know how ugly anonymous posting can become, youtube now looks like google+ with faces and real names. Progress.

by jere 14y 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
  Yup. Something like this might work better: http://is.gd/google_plus_html5 http://is.gd/google_plus_html5 But it still doesn't matter. Just because you can produce a pretty URL using a 3rd party service doesn't mean it's going to be utilized.
- altryne1 14y ago
  how about http://gplus.to/html5plus http://gplus.to/html5plus

ojr 14y ago

if you start a search in google+ and press ht..it will automagically autocomplete to the HTML5 community page, if thats not too hard for you ;), if your friends posts about whatever is valuable to you so be it but I see more value in a community filled with like-minded individuals, to each his own! Reddit has no faces and real names and we all know how ugly anonymous posting can become, youtube now looks like google+ with faces and real names. Progress.